For immediate release
November 9, 2016
LP Vice Chair Open Letter to Democrats
Arvin Vohra, Vice Chair of the Libertarian Party released this open letter to Democratic voters today in response to their candidate’s decisive defeat:
Democratic voters:
Do you know why the Democratic Party lost despite better organization and more money?
It’s because you literally nominated an openly pro-war Democrat. (Obama at least pretended otherwise.)
The current version Democratic Party is strongest in politically correct parts of cities, where people are often more influenced by the fashion of politics than by the substance. But the real Democratic voters, the ones who have been Democrats for decades, are not really interested in safe spaces and nonsense. They are opposed to war. Many of them became Democrats in response to the Vietnam war and to Nixon’s War on Drugs (which is ironic, given that Democrats initially got the U.S. military involved in Vietnam).
When you nominated an openly pro-war “Democrat”, that was frankly too much. They could not support that type of person. And rightly so.
To those anti-war Democrats: what do you do when a spouse mistreats you? First you try to convince them otherwise. If that doesn’t work, you leave, and make them earn you back.
It’s time for you to ditch the pro-War “Democratic” party. Join the actual anti-War party: the Libertarian Party. If the Democrats want your vote and your energy, make them earn it. Make them pledge to end the War on Drugs and end U.S. involvement in foreign civil wars. Libertarian Candidates have already signed pledges to that effect.
And to the anti-War left that has been missing since 2008: please stop the hypocrisy. Democrats bombing foreign countries is just as bad as Republicans bombing foreign countries. If you cannot hold your own candidates the the same standards you hold Republican candidates, you are either hypocrites or fools.
If you want to stop war, bring the troops home, shut down foreign military bases, and cut taxes accordingly, please join the Libertarian Party. Learn more at lp.org.
In Liberty,
Arvin Vohra
Vice Chair
Libertarian National Committee
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The Libertarian Party was founded in 1971 and is the third largest political party in the United States.
The Libertarian Party seeks to expand personal freedoms, dramatically reduce taxes and government interference in the economy, and avoid meddling in overseas conflicts.
Ah, yes. Libertarian Party. The party of open borders, both for trade and labor. No walls. No borders, even. AND nominates lunatics (literally) to represent them! It just doesn’t get much better than that!
No thanks. “Formulas” set in concrete do not work.
I will admit that the Democrats love to puddle-duck waddle
into wars all over the place, and then blame the other
party for NOT FIXING THEIR MESS FAST ENOUGH.
Yes. Sometimes wars are just and necessary. Me wishing
that weren’t true is just lying to myself. My dad fought
the Nazis in WWII, in N. Africa, Italy & Germany; saw
dead bodies of Jews, Christians, homosexuals and other
“undesirables” piled ten feet high for a distance of an
eighth of a mile at one of the German concentration
camps the Americans liberated. Yes. Hitler had to be
stopped. (He had disarmed the men in Germany; then
thought they ought to be able to kill Allies and break
things. Their aim was not as good as American boys who
had of necessity hunted all their lives.) They charged
Hell with a bucket of water and a rifle; and won a
war they thought at times they were likely to lose -
with the help of God Almighty who does choose sides at
times - and that was one of them.
Yeah. Obama LIED. He has been good at that; but when
people see they’ve been lied to, they turn on you.
Lying is NOT simply “pretending”. God hates loving and
making LIES.