I've already given up on "restoring the country to its original Constitutional intent", that is a fight that will never end and did it even start to begin with??? I personally don't think so, thats why I now have the mentality of take what I can get.
Most importantly though, its taught me to focus on living my principles and focusing on my work in the private sector as opposed to the public political arena.
If we want a more meaningfully libertarian world, each of us need to accumulate wealth, power, influence because preaching the same message to the same group of people forever is not going to work.
Imagine if there were even 5-10 Peter Thiels, Patrick Byrnes, John Mackeys, Vince Vaughns, and David Kochs, how much different this country would be.
Instead we have the same 20 people bickering online about the minutiae of libertarian semantics, hardcore crying about Rand, who is literally the only guy doing anything of substance for the liBROtarians.