30 years. PM as well. I do not ascribe to what I will call the Alex Jones Libertarians. My belief in the teachings and morals of the GATOU are part of my life, but they are mine and I will not attempt to force them upon others. I however believe in freedom of thought, word and personal deed. As did my brothers before me who founded this country.
I used to like Libertarians years ago, but the LP split with Ron Paul taking the constitutionalists into the GOP and left the LP with the anything goes crazies. The LP is worthless these days.
The “Alex Jones Libertarians” are the bulk of the party and generally have been a good description of all their Presidential nominees with the possible exception of Barr (who most Libertarians had a hissy fit over). Hell, Hospers could be consider the intellectual grandfather of Jones types. You complain about the RINO Bush type poisoning the Republican well but Hospers and Roots and Ron Pauls and Johnsons have done more to poison the Libertarian well than the RINOs have done to poison the Republican well (as evidence by actual electoral accomplishments.)