爪哥按語：

美國自由意志黨1971年成立，目前是美國第三大政黨，也是美國發展速度最快的政黨，擁有超過65萬名註冊選民，以及超過兩百名黨員在擔任公職，包括市長、郡政府官員等政府要職。

自由意志黨的黨綱宣示貫徹自由意志主義的理念，主張減少政府管制，堅定支持自由放任的市場經濟以及公民自由。

2020年由於眾議員賈斯汀·阿馬什的加入，使自由意志黨在2020年大選前於國會眾議院中短暫擁有一席，賈斯汀·阿馬什是自由意志黨首名國會議員。

用大陸華人最“熟悉”的話總結一下，自由意志黨的黨綱就是：

一個中心，兩個基本點

一個中心：美國憲法

兩個基本點：Libertarian Party is more culturally liberal than Democrats, and more fiscally conservative than Republicans。

所以，自由意志黨越來越受到美國年輕人的青睞。我認識的好幾個朋友在扭腰上班的孩子們，打算這次把選票投給自由意志黨候選人。

2024大選，百年老店民主黨與共和黨，居然推不出一個像樣的總統候選人，這真是美國的悲哀。

但對自由意志黨而言，是藉機發展壯大的不可多得的機遇。或許能在我有生之年，親眼看到美國版的三國演義三足鼎立？

The Libertarian Party (LP) is a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire capitalism, and limiting the size and scope of government. The party was conceived in August 1971 at meetings in the home of David F. Nolan in Westminster, Colorado,^[10][11] and was officially formed on December 11, 1971, in Colorado Springs.^[11] The organizers of the party drew inspiration from the works and ideas of the prominent Austrian school economist, Murray Rothbard.^[12] The founding of the party was prompted in part due to concerns about the Nixon administration, the Vietnam War, conscription, and the introduction of fiat money.^[13]

The party generally promotes a classical liberal platform, in contrast to the Democratic Party's modern liberalism and progressivism and the Republican Party's conservatism.^{[14][non-primary source needed]} Gary Johnson, the party's presidential nominee in 2012 and 2016, claims that the Libertarian Party is more culturally liberal than Democrats, and more fiscally conservative than Republicans.^[15] Its fiscal policy positions include lowering taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), decreasing the national debt, allowing people to opt out of Social Security and eliminating the welfare state, in part by utilizing private charities. Its cultural policy positions include ending the prohibition of illegal drugs, advocating criminal justice reform,^[16] supporting same-sex marriage, ending capital punishment, and supporting gun ownership rights.^[14]

As of 2023, it is the third-largest political party in the United States by voter registration.^[17] In the 2020 election the Libertarians gained a seat in the Wyoming House of Representatives, giving them their first state legislative win since 2000.^[18][19][20] As of August 2022, there are 310 Libertarians holding elected office: 193 of them partisan offices and 117 of them non-partisan offices.^[9] There are 693,634 voters registered as Libertarian in the 31 states that report Libertarian registration statistics and Washington, D.C.^[21] The first electoral vote for a woman was that for Tonie Nathan of the party for vice president in the 1972 United States presidential election due to a faithless elector supporter who eschewed his expected votes for President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew in favor of the Libertarian ticket. The first and only Libertarian in Congress was Justin Amash, who joined the Libertarian Party in 2020 and left the U.S. House of Representatives in 2021 after choosing not to seek re-election.

In 2022, the paleolibertarian Mises Caucus (LPMC) became the dominant faction on the Libertarian National Committee, leading to internal conflicts and significant policy changes, such as regarding immigration and abortion.^[22][23]