Anti-Climacus

WELL: Joe Carter:

"As anyone who has spent more than five minutes in the blogosphere knows, libertarianism is a remarkably fast-growing political movement."

I'd say rather that libertarianism is a remarkably fast-growing political movement within the blogosphere, largely because single-issue libertarians (people who subscribe to that label before liberal or conservative) are the vast minority in the country, generally well educated, and completely ignored by the major parties. Even the fair number of people I know who have libertarian sympathies are willing to abandon them when their more serious ideological pursuits require it. Mostly this is because libertarianism runs along the current alignment of politics in America*.

*As libertarianism is a offshoot of liberalism, and both major parties in America subscribe to liberalism as their dominant fundational political doctrine, so a libertarian could (theoretically) be as at home in one party as the other.