Well, choose another name then, if you don’t agree with the LP. AFAIC, anyone calling themselves a libertarian, large L or small, agrees with the LP platform. If they don’t, then call thesmelves something else.
It’s a form of mental illness to say “I’m a libertarian but I don’t agree with the Libertarian Party”. And then if I ask them to delineate which things they disagree with, I never get much of an answer.
I think it’s that the LP has so stunk up the atmosphere people who agree with it just don’t want to openly admit it and claim that they don’t agree. Duplicity is the order of the day in discussions with Libertarians or libertarians. That has been my years long experience. I’ll say EXACTLY what I mean, stand for, and believe, and I get freaking gobbledy gook and slogans in return.
Life is too short to discuss things with people who use duplicity as debate tactic.
>> It’s a form of mental illness to say “I’m a libertarian but I don’t agree with the Libertarian Party”.
Nonsense. I’m a registered Republican, but I don’t necessarily agree with the Republican Party.
Does the Democrat Party reflect democracy? Does the Republican Party reflect republicanism? Does the Libertarian Party reflect libertarianism? No to all three.
Is a woman damned to be an Obama supporter because the Women’s Vote went to Obama? Heck, we can berate women all day. They’re the ones that elected Obama, not the libertarians. They’re the one’s responsible for Planned Parenthood, not the libertarians. They’re the one’s responsible for gun grabbing, not the libertarians. More?
>> I’ll say EXACTLY what I mean, stand for, and believe, and I get freaking gobbledy gook and slogans in return.
I gave you two Oxford definitions on statism and libertarianism. That’s not gobbledygook.