[jackbob]

Voting Libertarian is not going to shake up the Republican or Democratic parties for a long time to come. Voting for the Libertarian Party to bring about any kind of positive change in America today is a wasted vote as they are way to under represented in the intellectual and social activist class.

[mugs99]

Voting Libertarian is not going to shake up the Republican or Democratic parties for a long time to come. Voting for the Libertarian Party to bring about any kind of positive change in America today is a wasted vote as they are way to under represented in the intellectual and social activist class

Why not look at a real world example. Costa Rica was mired in socialism. The left and right had become virtually the same...Big government socialism. I see the same situation here. A handful of men brought the Libertarian Party to Costa Rica. In less than a decade they were able to raise the LP into the mainstream. They haven't won total control, but they have forced the left and right to listen to the will of the people. People were fed up with the Nanny State and the broken promises of corrupt politicians.

I don't agree. I would say most libertarians have never been a member of any party. The second largest number of libertarians have probably been members of the Democratic Party.

The Republican Party was libertarian before there was a Libertarian Party. The RP began its slide to the left during the Great Depression when FDR convinced America that socialism could cure our ills. Democrat politicians slurred Republicans as libertines the same way I see many "conservatives" slurring libertarians on FR now. Libertarians are small government capitalists. You don't find libertarians in the Democrat Party.
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