The Libertarians should have rallied around Rand Paul even though he started getting squishy in order to try and get more votes. Likewise the Greens should support Bernie rather than the ever popular Jill Stein.
If a party supports someone who has a chance, they may get a seat at the policy table, rather than being kicked to the curb once again when the election is over.
I don’t know why they even bother, as they have no chance ever to get elected. Rand Paul turned me off especially because he announced already in 2013 that he was planning to run for the 2016 presidential election and then he forced the Kentucky legislature to let him run at the same time for his senatorial reelection.
Libertarians need to stop whining so much about LOCAL LAWS, Even Bad ones, instead they will go above and beyond to bitch about a local ordinance that “infringes their rights”. It is almost like they don’t understand the concept of federalism.
I think that they could easily compromise and integrate better with conservatism if they consistently said that the FEDERAL government has no place in people’s lives while allowing that LOCAL people do have a right to pass crazy laws to restrict drugs, porn, etc...
Instead they seem all over the map or unreasonable when it comes to certain things that are “niche concepts”. Like Drug usage and Sexual habits without acknowledging that it’s okay for STATE/LOCAL governments to pass restrictions.
But their main problem seems to be their desire for a Pure Libertarian is so different depending on which Libertarian you ask that it is like trying to herd cats to get consensus.