Given how often libertarians are mentioned here, I thought this would be interesting. And maybe there's some people with a lot more insight into what's going on.
A few months back (May 29), the national leadership of the Libertarian Party (the "Big L" political party, not the "small l" belief system) was taken over by a group called the "Mises Caucus". While their platform seems to be a mundane version of a normal platform.
In recent days, there's several state level "rebellions" which seems to indicate that the schism between the old guard and them isn't going away any time soon.
For me, they do seem to tilt at absolutist windmills rather than do stuff they want done - which is a common libertarian flaw. And the implicit emphasis on Mises economics is a huge problem for me. Their stance against vaccination and supporting Trump's allegations of election fraud seem pretty shifty.
OTOH, the previous leadership didn't seem all that interested in libertarianism. Maybe this will shake things up in a useful way?
So what are peoples' takes on this?
Reply to: Re:Confused little princes
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 24 2022, @02:35AM
I see you can only criticize the not-very-democratic system in the US while refusing to put forth any libertarian policies that would make government better.
No you don't because that never came up here. I looked through the entire discussion. And if we talk about my posts outside of this journal, I have made many suggestions (for example, here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], , [soylentnews.org]here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], and here [soylentnews.org].
I make no claims about the value of following up on these links. But I can say that if you follow a few of these links and you know, see, you will see me doing the things you claim you don't see me do now.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 24 2022, @02:35AM
No you don't because that never came up here. I looked through the entire discussion. And if we talk about my posts outside of this journal, I have made many suggestions (for example, here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], , [soylentnews.org]here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], and here [soylentnews.org].
I make no claims about the value of following up on these links. But I can say that if you follow a few of these links and you know, see, you will see me doing the things you claim you don't see me do now.