The death of an ideology...
Reading an article about Republican efforts to buy the Green party onto the Pa. Senate ticket in an effort to draw voters from Bob Casey, I got to wondering, why in the hell isn't the Libertarian party rolling in clover right now?
I mean, this should be their time. A large percentage of disaffected Republicans out there who would really like to not vote Democrat. Challenges on what could be their core issues, first and fourth amendment, and sustantial fights over eminent domain.
I don't really want to get too far into the merits of the ideology, but with the situation where it is, why hasn't the libertarian party developed into the 4% campaign altering force that the green party has?
Just crossed my mind.
I mean, this should be their time. A large percentage of disaffected Republicans out there who would really like to not vote Democrat. Challenges on what could be their core issues, first and fourth amendment, and sustantial fights over eminent domain.
I don't really want to get too far into the merits of the ideology, but with the situation where it is, why hasn't the libertarian party developed into the 4% campaign altering force that the green party has?
Just crossed my mind.
posted by mikevotes at
3:36 PM
2 Comments:
Because the corporate media painted the Libertarians as wackjobs a long time ago.
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Lew Scannon, at 5:12 PM
Hey troll, welcome. That's true.
Thinking about it a little more, the Ross Perot/reform party, or whatever they're calling themselves now, took a chunk out of them, too.
Also, I think the type of people they draw because of their ideology, (we'll call them individualists) are not prone towards organized structures. Just a broad brush stereotype.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 5:19 PM
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