[Vigilanteman]

It is what libertarians do. They are more interested in ideological purity than they are with the responsibility of actually governing.

[Dr. Sivana]

They are more interested in ideological purity than they are with the responsibility of actually governing.

It is worse than that. I can imagine a role for an ideologically pure party as a check on the major parties, and as a voice for an under-represented viewpoint.

But the Libertarian Party was MIA during COVID, when an ideologically pure voice against lockdowns and masking was called for. Unbelievably, a lot of the party leadership was afraid to tackle these issues, which represent what Libertarians were warning us about for years: Government arbitrarily abusing its power to strike down the most basic of freedoms.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

article: "the Virginia branch may have dissolved entirely"

This is GREAT news. The losertarian party has been responsible for more many, many Democrat wins in Virginia. Oliver North would have been a Senator if it weren't for the losertarians.

[pepsi_junkie]

They are more interested in ideological purity than they are with the responsibility of actually governing.

They have no such responsibility since they win nothing.

However I find it useful for there to be parties that are not obsessed with Realpolitik and how they can hide what they plan to do from the sheep behind a fake platform they have no intention of ever implementing and a bunch of empty promises. Maybe someday a proper third party that puts forth a set of principles that they actually believe in will get enough support that they become electorally viable. That was, after all, how the Republican party rose and maybe someday a proper conservative successor to it will come along. Until then we get just the uniparty of demopublicans and republicrats laughing at us every election.

[es345st]

They will never be anything but spoilers and they have done plenty of that. The green party woke up and joined the rats and pushed their agenda from within.

[cgbg]

This article was all about process and not about what the ideological issues are, if any.

Where is the beef?

;-)

[Fai Mao]

“It is what libertarians do. They are more interested in ideological purity than they are with the responsibility of actually governing.”

Sounds like a fair number of posters here.

[Boogieman]

[dljordan]

” They are more interested in ideological purity than they are with the responsibility of actually governing.”

You mean like FR?

[Gaffer]

I do think there’s the ideological purity aspect about it, but I also think many Libertarians just enjoy being recalcitrant and ‘courted’ so to speak. They like attention just the same as many who profess themselves to be ‘independents.’ In short, they’re attention-seeking spoilers.

[Woodman]

This is exactly why I quit the Libertarian Party many decades ago.