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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?
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?
What's happening with the US Libertarian Party?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2022, @03:20AM (1 child)
Capitalism has been discredited. "Bleeding heart" Libertarians have been exposed above as being merely liberals, and liberals have been exposed as being merely filthy and pseudo-left by their fear of mobilizing the working class for the defense of abortion and the 40 hour work week, and for the establishment of single payer healthcare and public health policies to eliminate COVID, polio, and aidspox.
Working people in Kansas and Seattle have shown powerfully that the masses want legal abortion, and yet the bourgeois parties, including if we judge the Democratic Party by its actions and inactions, want forced birth. So the Libertarian Party can only pretend to be progressive any more by transforming into the Hookers and Blow Party.
I might well end up voting for the Natural Law Party now, though I disagree with their transcendental meditation platform. I think body scanning meditation and yoga are superior techniques.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday September 19 2022, @03:49AM
You fully capitalize "COVID", but "aidspox"? Doesn't sound like you're serious here.