The more I read and understand the libertarian platform, the more sense it makes. It would be very hard to move to true freedom quickly since most people expect government to take care of them or their aging parents, high fuel prices, bad neighbors, snow on the street, weeds in the park, etc. But for first 100 years of the US, most of this was handled by the people. Not the Governmental nanny state. Some Americans don't even know that education was a private function that worked very well before the Government decided it could do it better.