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Voting Libertarian is not going to shake up the Republican or Democratic parties for a long time to come. Voting for the Libertarian Party to bring about any kind of positive change in America today is a wasted vote as they are way to under represented in the intellectual and social activist class

Why not look at a real world example. Costa Rica was mired in socialism. The left and right had become virtually the same...Big government socialism. I see the same situation here. A handful of men brought the Libertarian Party to Costa Rica. In less than a decade they were able to raise the LP into the mainstream. They haven't won total control, but they have forced the left and right to listen to the will of the people. People were fed up with the Nanny State and the broken promises of corrupt politicians.

I don't agree. I would say most libertarians have never been a member of any party. The second largest number of libertarians have probably been members of the Democratic Party.

The Republican Party was libertarian before there was a Libertarian Party. The RP began its slide to the left during the Great Depression when FDR convinced America that socialism could cure our ills. Democrat politicians slurred Republicans as libertines the same way I see many "conservatives" slurring libertarians on FR now. Libertarians are small government capitalists. You don't find libertarians in the Democrat Party.
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The Republican Party was libertarian before there was a Libertarian Party... Libertarians are small government capitalists. You don't find libertarians in the Democrat Party.

The Republican Party was never libertarian in the slightest. The fact that a few republicans hold a few high priority positions in common with libertarians, does not make them libertarians. Libertarians are so much more than "small government capitalists" that saying such amounts to a gross inaccuracy. Additionally, a rather large minority of libertarians reject "small government capitalism." Libertarian democrats are harder to identify because of different priorities which force them to place Democratic Party unity to stop the Republican Party, ahead of many of their libertarian interests. A slightly similar kind of reasoning can be found among libertarian republicans. I wish the best for both at teaching libertarianism with in their respective parties.