It would appear a "party" can claim both sides of the same coin giving us Democrats and Republicans while the majority of citizens are longing for less of both or in actuality, none of either.

For the small L libertarians, it's an easy choice of wanting freedom and desiring anarchy, the presence of rules but no rulers.

The coin that rolls one way and the other in capitols of different sorts seems to easily quash liberty either way it leans.

The difference between asking a man underwater if he likes water better cold or hot.....when all he desires is air.