Posted on 05/30/2024 1:00:53 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
I have yet to see a change, where is the change since their first being in 1972?
The only Chase I have ever heard of was a Doonesbury character, a homo Republican who hung out with homo Marxist Mark Slackmayer.
Consider yourself a queen, consider yourself a flaming candidate...
The Libertarian Party has also become the “We Hate Cops” party. They readily call anyone that supports police “bootlickers.”
Basically, they have evolved or devolved into the Libertine Party!
Libertarians are gay.
Spot on. Same reasons I have had nothing to do with the LP in over a decade.
Libertarian ideals are fine, logical, and something we should all aspire to.
The Libertarian Party has become something unrecognizable and more than a little... icky.
Exactly. Freedom is good, but comes with consequences. You cannot have one without the other.
They have always been the libertine party, they never changed, yet to defend them people keep claiming they changed at some point, which they didn’t.
Trump will swat them like a fly.
Who? Chase and current LP? The most they’ve gotten was around 3% Nationally and they won’t even break 1% this time.
Without the Mises wing, the LP will go the way of the Green party and for largely the same reasons.
Why don’t you just point out that official change that has been made since their founding?
What year was that change that never happened, and on what issues?
Agree!
“”””The most they’ve gotten was around 3% Nationally and they won’t even break 1% this time.””””
Their greatest showing in history was against Trump in 2016, they got 3.3%.
The second greatest showing in history for the LP was against Trump in 2020, they got 1.2%.
The LP’s 3rd greatest showing was against Reagan in 1980, they got 1.1%.
I grant there was always a “I-want-to-do-what-want-to-do!-What-consequences?” element in the party. In the past they were always balanced out by the Von Mises wing. Of course, the Von Mises wing never seemed to recognize that, that wing was holding them back; damaging their economic arguments by association.
The other problem is Libertarianism always assumes people are rational actors. They’re not!
The party never changed, if you mean they were “balanced” by some members with different personal irrelevant opinions then fine, but the official party positions and goals remained the same.
Libertarians are irrational nut cases, what makes you think they think that other people are rational?
Do you think the LP immigration platform has rational all these decades?
Some nut cases mostly immature thinking for the most part.
The Von Mises people assume people are rational actors because that’s a basic academic free market assumption. Why do I think Libertarians assume rational people? Because that’s what they have told me! I didn’t say I agreed with them! They forget they’re not in the academy!
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