Gene, how can you not know that libertarianism is for removing all limits on abortion and homosexuality and opening the borders and things so radically leftist that even liberals recoil?
That is their roll in politics, to promote and fight for the end of social conservatism.
Those are liberal policies supposedly distinct from conservative policies.
I have no argument with you concerning the Libertarian Party — however, there are many libertarians that do not agree with its Leftwing agenda.
The distinction between statism and libertarianism is very important. And it’s different than the distinction between liberalism and conservatism.