"Libertarians. They're all over the internet, but seem to mysteriously vanish before election time. Their political ideals are based on the ideas that government intervention is a bad thing by default, social services are evil, and that humans and corporations can be trusted to regulate themselves."

Dead Wrong. Libertarians believe in regulation of humans and corporations, just in vastly different ways than we do so right now.

In a Libertarian Society Humans would regulate corporations through strict, well defined property laws (or property rights. For example--they would overturn the supreme court decision Gibbons V. Ogden, which (some would argue, accidentally) made it illegal to "own" rivers or piece of a river. That's why factories began using rivers to dump waste nobody "owned" the river so it was essentially a free dumping ground. Environmental regulations have helped A LITTLE to clean up rivers but many remain dirty and hazardous because large corporations use lawyers and lobbyists to get around environmental legislation--at the same time their competitors, who may not have even been causing any harm are hit with regulations that hurt their business.

In a Libertarian society--a piece of a river could be owned just like people own the land under their houses--a corporation polluting would be treated just like a criminal who vandalizes your house--they'd be legally forced restore your property to its original state.

So please don't spread the misinformation that libertarians are against regulation--they are in favor of SMART regulation where the power to regulate is placed in the hands of the people, as opposed to an easily-corruptible and inefficiently government.