I agree with a lot of Mons Meg's post in post #48. There is an advantage to being able to move to where people are more like minded.
I was just trying to illustrate my personal notions of "practical" libertarianism. Economic freedom is non-severable from personal freedom. You're free, or you're not. Economic laws of scarcity are not repealed by government action, and all that.
Another thought: I'll still stay registered R for the time being, because it matters a great deal LOCALLY. It's human nature, but too many folks are still blissfully unaware of the shenanigans going on at City Council, or their local Boards, or County Commissions, e.g. the petty tyrannies like city "use fees" which are really unapproved taxes in disguise. If we're going to bring the country back towards liberty being the *default* rather than the exception, we have to "think nationally, act locally" a lot more than we do. So I soldier on, finding like-minded individuals in Logan County who are interested in actual accountability, and you know what? The past few years have seen a marked improvement in local county officers. And, I hardly need to mention Jason Murphey, who is about as good a State Rep as I could have hoped for, and the first candidate for any office for whom I have actually volunteered my time and effort.
Now I don't want to turn this into some sort of impassioned speech, but if more people expended the same energy locally that they do on national elections, you might not feel so much like the game is rigged. Just a thought.
(cue Battle Hymn of the Republic in background)