User blog comment:Super Warmonkey/Libertarian Party/@comment-26718489-20120812150456

Dude! A fellow Libertarian! The reason they are so small is because all the "persons of lower income" want the government to help them, while instead, the Libertarians feel those persons should work for themselves. While many of those persons have good reasons, there are some who instead do not work to get better, but just keep using welfare and living off the government. Yes, this is a good thing they can do that, but it also is a bad thing. The Libertarians don't want this to happen, and instead for them to be driven on their own to provide for themselves. But the majority of people like the whole "government will back you up" thing, and so the Libertarians get close to nothing in membership and votes.

And actually, Libertarians are classical liberals, who feel the government should not limit the populace so much. Another reason they are so small is because they support LGBT rights in full, which many arsehole Americans consider tabboo. This all resulting in the formation of a small but guinuinely good mindset party, one which feels the government should only be there to create laws and protect lawful people. Anything else is freedom.