Yep, can confirm. By the time I was briefly involved with the LP a couple of decades ago, it was clear pretty quickly that they'd been co-opted by the RINOs (at least in the state where I was living).
It was kinda weird, actually. After I contacted them for local info, but before I even attended my first meeting, a party bigwig (a college prof who held some non-teaching role) drove four hours across the state to take me, a total stranger to lunch. It felt really sus, but I couldn't quite make out his intent.
I definitely noticed right off the bat, though, a goodly dose of what you might call "repressive tolerance." Like he was already trying to make sure that this newbie didn't really mean that the party should work for actual liberty.
Yep, can confirm. By the time I was briefly involved with the LP a couple of decades ago, it was clear pretty quickly that they'd been co-opted by the RINOs (at least in the state where I was living).
It was kinda weird, actually. After I contacted them for local info, but before I even attended my first meeting, a party bigwig (a college prof who held some non-teaching role) drove four hours across the state to take me, a total stranger to lunch. It felt really sus, but I couldn't quite make out his intent.
I definitely noticed right off the bat, though, a goodly dose of what you might call "repressive tolerance." Like he was already trying to make sure that this newbie didn't really mean that the party should work for actual liberty.