Continuing Thoughts On The Libertarian Party

I was on a Livestream the other night and the host was talking about how the Libertarian Party in many locales must gather signatures in order to get on the ballot and often times the two parties in charge will just change the rules. “Oh, you got 5,000 signatures, now it’s 10,000.” OK, well what do you do at that point if you’re the LP? My suggestion of hiring an investigator to find out the exact names of the people who changed that rule and starting a social media campaign to target them causing them to lose sleep probably wasn’t what they wanted to hear. But I was being honest and showing a way the LP can play by the same rules that the establishment does. If you’re going to be a “political” party maybe you should play by the rules however distasteful they are. That’s politics and if you’re not playing the game what is the point of even existing? 

Aaron from the Friends Against Government Podcast - now “Timeline Earth” - suggests that the only reason for the LP to exist when you consider that on a national level they will never win is to indict the system at every turn. I agree. But if that is your goal, you’re going to have to take the gloves off. The days of “woke” messaging are over. The Left is not the natural ally of the LP. When you take into consideration that part of their religion is climate change and universal healthcare, if they were to break third-party the Greens would be their natural destination. So, abandoning the pandering to the fringes of the Left must happen. 

Getting back to my point about how unfair the system is to third-parties, especially when it comes to the electoral process, it makes sense to me that there is a group out there right now who feels extremely disenfranchised and has been radicalized by a system they feel robbed them. Yep, I’m saying it, the hardcore Trump voter. Now hear me out because I know some of you think I’m losing it. These are people with no ideology other than they hate the Left, and at this point, hate the system they believe screwed them. It needs to be communicated to them that the system can’t be fixed and if they stole it from them this year, what makes you think the future will be any different. Remember the part about indicting the system. It seems to me there is no more natural ally at this point in achieving that goal. Yes, as I stated, I know they have no ideology. But they do at least say that they desire liberty so maybe there’s a better chance working with a clean slate than someone with hardcore ideological baggage. 

Throwing verbal and ideological bombs at the system is the only thing that makes sense to me when I consider the LP and electoral politics. “Indict the System” seems at this point to be a much more powerful slogan than “The Party of Principle.” What are principles going to get you when it comes to Machiavellian politics? Air-conditioned, privately owned re-education camps? If the last nine months have taught us anything it’s that the gloves must come off and if you aren’t willing to call out the enemy, and find allies to advance with, then the LP is just a social club for autists. It could be much more.