Ivytalk wrote:CID1990 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:43 pm
One would think that the LP sits at the brink of a historical opportunity to sell itself as a viable alternative.
But most libertarians are too busy minding their own business and asking to be left alone to bother, I guess
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The LP is trying desperately to find a “normal” candidate who doesn’t wear a thong or a tinfoil hat.
I commented on my State LP FB page that one woman candidate struck me as the Marianne Williamson of the LP. At that point, a more experienced party member replied that 30% of ALL Libertarians are the Marianne Williamsons of the LP, as I would find out if I ever attended an LP national convention.
Well, it’s true
Gary Johnson May have been the most “normal” candidate from the LP in years
But we’ve already tried the Joe Biden model ad nauseum for decades now
And we’ve now tried the sleazy real estate mogul too
Gary Johnson asked in his campaign ad... “What have you got to lose?”.... certainly not civil liberties - and isn’t that the biggest complaint of liberals about conservatives, or vice versa?
I find defenses of the Dem Party and the GOP to both be vapid and shallow. There is no reason for 75% of either party to support them. But just today I read a WaPo article about Trump’s tweet about the Iranian provocations in the Persian Gulf, and guess what the comments section had devolved into? People vilifying the Green Party gal for delivering the WH to Trump!
The only thing keeping the LP and the Greens down is the stranglehold the two monied parties have on the cash. Fix that, and we’d see some electoral alternatives.
The two best candidates for President in the last 20 years have been Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. And I am absolutely convinced we will never see another viable Presidential candidate with anywhere close to the same gravitas that they had. The worst complaints about them, outside of political ideology, were completely inane.
All the LP needs to do is put forward someone like and Amash or a Lee