Balancing the budget, granting more power to the states, legalizing things and taking an isolationist approach to militarism seem like practical ideas.
I thought a bitcoin forum out of all places would understand libertarianism.
Many of us do, but it seems the "less you know, louder you are" rule still applies even in writing. Anyway, many of us are actually closer to the central anarchistic side of libertarianism than the right-winged version
As practical as the things you listed are, and as much as they would solve many of our problems, I don't see it happening in America; its people are completely uninformed (one of the no-no's of a democracy but that's state-owned education for you; never heard of a catholic school preaching atheism, yet we expect government to be unbiased against itself apparently), and its politicians are just yearning for more and more power, which they have received; it's a clever plot, I think, since they mask it as "it's for your safety", and of course people took the bait after the events of 9/11, despite the undesirable patriot act floating around before then.
America's full-speed ahead to either conquer the world or die trying; their time is running out, since their currency is always getting closer to the tipping point of owing more in interest on its debts than what it takes in through taxes. Once that happens, they can't pay for a single thing; all our tax money goes to interest, so the roads and the bridges and the welfare and the military and social security, all the things statists love, will not be there anymore; ironic, isn't it?--we often grill libertarians, for how would we pay for our roads without government, and yet it's through government we'll no longer be able to pay for our roads. It seems more likely America will collapse under its own weight before a libertarian takes office and tries to turn this ship around.
