You know it's sort of funny to me that Libertarianism can be a gateway for some out of Conservatism but it's also where the Conservatives who want to be really mean and selfish go.
I got really into Ron Paul back in the day, which nowadays is generally really embarrassing, but the thing I learned through that phase that changed everything was the relentless evil of America's "foreign policy". I learned about the war machine that was never going to stop.