Can a Freedom Party Gain Traction In A Democracy?

It is an odd characteristic of Democracies how they gravitate to the centre ground of the Statist Quo and bar the US no libertarian movement has emerged across the globe.This is a puzzler and one I do not pretend to fathom.There are clusters of libertarian thought but they have not coalesced into a political force.Is it for want of a charismatic figure to lead the charge or more the individualistic nature of the libertarian that militates against collective action?Probably more the latter.A third explanation could be that libertarian thought is so diverse and contradictory that no coherent ideology has emerged for people to rally around. It is true that libertarianism is a very broad church,comprising such irrational theories as anarchism,minarchism,mutualism,Communism socialism ad nauseam.All the while it is so fractured and schismatic no united force against Democractic Statism can be anticipated.We have to look as mentioned to the US for guidance and as a marker of how to proceed with the tea party and the resurgence of interest into the founder of libertarianism herself although she repudiated the movement as irrationalist and opportunist - Ayn Rand.Her theories and writings on liberty and Capitalism and exposes of Leftist thought have never been equalled and any defence of Capitalism has to reference her contribution as a guide to how to proceed. An obstacle to freedom has been the Conservative movement which has presented itself quite unjustifiably and misleadingly as the champion of Capitalism when it has temporized with the mixed economy for 60 years and counting.Because it has been mischaracterized by its opponents on the Left as being pro Capitalist people have wrongly assumed that it is pro freedom when all its actions in accommodating mixed economy have belied such an assumption.Until people can be disabused of the notion that Conservatism equals Capitalism the Conservatives will continue to prempt the field and prevent the emergence of a pro Capitalist movement to dethrone it and consign it to well earned political oblivion. The weird thing about Democracy is how limited the debate is.Those who believe in small government are nowhere to be see and if they dare to stick their head above the parapet they are immediately shot at with ad hominem abuse and labelled extremist.