Forty years ago, the US government, on its own accord, undertook the investigation of Vietnam war-crimes and prosecuted the criminals.
Today, the US government imprisons the whistle-blower of Iraq war-crimes, after committing a cover up for the criminals.
Thank God there was no LGBT Party to humiliate GLBT sensibilities, in repeated electoral defeats.
I think it's widely recognized that running for office, increasing name exposure, helps a candidate in subsequent runs for office. We can even see this in a small scale in the Libertarian Party, where running for president or party chair and losing often helps a person get elected to some other position.
I don't see any evidence that libertarian ideas are "humiliated in defeat". Anyone who believes that electoral defeat is humiliating, or sees the term "loser" as a legitimate pejorative, is looking at things the wrong way. They are laboring under the false notion that the rightness of an idea is determined by its popularity. If you look at important historical reforms like abolition of chattel slavery, women's suffrage, equal treatment of GLBTQ people under the law, etc., these causes all suffered many defeats along the way, but that didn't stop them from ultimately prevailing.
Love & Liberty, ((( starchild )))