"Hey, the liberatarians might get 3/4% of the popular vote this time round.
Does that have anything to do with the platform which has been posted for discussion?"
In the first instance, most sensible Americans are opposed to the decriminalization of drugs that are currently illegal.
Your opinion is noted, and discarded.
M Man:
Sure it does. If the Libertarian Party cannot muster even 1% of the vote, then it is, essentially, irrelevant.
It's been irrelevant partly because it's had a crappy platform.
Whatever platform it might espouse is equally irrelevant, since it will be read only by Libertarian Party members, if that.
That could be changed, - if they adopted this one, -- which could lead to its being accepted by the Republican Liberty Caucus, -- which is acceptable to Free Republic. [or it least the RLC was, the last time JR addressed the subject]
That's why the statement that person made has a great deal to do with this proposed platform, which I note is the product of an individual, in any case, not of the party.
One individual wrote this?
The Libertarian Party will remain irrelevant to elections in this country, primarily due to its stance on drugs and its inability to form a stance on abortion.
The 'stance' of this new platform is still flexible. -- How would you change it to get RLC approval, -- for instance?
In the first instance, most sensible Americans are opposed to the decriminalization of drugs that are currently illegal.
Highly debatable, as we see on FR every day.
In the second instance, virtually all current Republicans are opposed to making abortions even easier to obtain.
The new platform doesn't favor that, from what I saw in my initial reading.
The LP dooms itself to its 1% share by the very platform it suggests.
It doesn't appear that you actually read or understood much of it.
They softened their stands on sex and drugs. They will drop from 0.7% to 0.35%.