Polls show that 20 percent or so of our fellow citizens claim to be libertarians. The root word for libertarian is liberty. Libertarians believes in liberty. The U.S.A. was founded and grew to greatness as a libertarian nation.
Libertarians value the freedom of others.
Typically the people who proclaim themselves to be libertarian are fed up with government's spending their money and telling them how to live. If it does, we must all be libertarians. Jesse Ventura, the body slamming governor of Minnesota, said he it quite libertarian. While Governor Ventura claims to be libertarian, he tries to dig even deeper into the tax payers pockets for farm subsidies and government schools. All of us want government to quit doing things we don't like, and keep its nose out of our business.