The Libertarian Party is on the Verge of ‘Full Collapse,’ Party Chairman Tells Board
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MAGA shall absorb them. Based libertarians are welcomed.
The Libertarian Party was allowed to exist in the U.S. political system for one simple reason, to make Republican Party losses seem plausible. Understand, I believe the rank and file Libertarians believe in a core set of principles. And, I also believe they were completely unaware their party was being used.
I wish I could remember who did the analysis about a Pennsylvania county that would have tipped the 2020 election to President Trump, but the Libertarian candidate had an inexplicable strong showing there. I just remember the person convincingly ticking off reasons why this was very unlikely and why it was probably due to the voting machines flipping Trump votes to the Libertarian candidate.
It wouldn’t surprise me if similar to the ActBlue ghost contributors, the DS had created ghost donors to keep the Libertarian Party afloat. But, if the writing is on the wall, and election rigging is being blocked, that is no longer a wise investment.
Very fanciful imagination. Nobody could stop the party from existing. And nobody could prevent the party from getting lost in futile ideological debates and picayune power struggles. Those tendencies were already evident in the 1970s. After the first 3 presidential campaigns, the party settled into irrelevance.
At long last. I was an LP member from the beginning, when the party was actually running credible candidates (e.g., John Hospers). But it took only a decade for activist anarchists to take over the organs of power and get lost in internecine battles over fine points of ideology. The party was conspicuously absent in even the most obvious civil rights issues (like 2nd amendment support). I was responsible for an investigation into the mysterious finances of the Seattle LP convention, and discovered a private group had infiltrated the party leadership and managed to transfer ownership of the convention (and the profits) to the private organization. Well, that degree of corruption was the final straw for me and I exited the party in the late 1990s. It has been a complete nonentity ever since.
I have complete disdain for those who signal virtue by "voting libertarian." It is precisely equivalent to tearing up your ballot and eating it, while guaranteeing the liberal left will face no opposition from their wasted vote.
Libertarian shouldn't be a party anyways. It's just extreme Republican.