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Funny, I personally never thought that I lacked the courage of my convictions simply because I wasn't a card-carrying member of a political collective. Maybe libertarians who are members of the Democrat Party and the Republican Party are trying to expand access to the libertarian view of things rather than simply living in an echo chamber of like-minded, closed-minded souls.
There are no libertarians in the Democratic Party - those who reside under the umbrella of the term libertarian can hold a great variety of views on a many subjects, but one thing that unites all libertarians is that government should not be positive. No Democrat believes that.
There are many special interests lurking within the Democratic Party, but each and every one of them wants something from government - they want government to do something for them, and/or against someone else... whatever their motivation doesn't matter. They want to wield government for their own ends.
Most Republicans are the same as every Democrat - only with different special interests to cater to. That said, what libertarians there are in Washington, they do reside in the Republican Party; but they are so few in number as to be inconsequential.
The one thing that the core of both the Republican and Democratic Parties have in common is that neither has any use for the rule of law. The Constitution means nothing to the majority of both parties - just as it means nothing to most Americans.