Well I wouldn't hold my breath for them to win a presidential election in the near future, but they have slowly but surly been making gains in local elections throughout the country.
A lot of people on this site bash Libertarians as being a party that is going nowhere, and I will admit that they could use a good revamping of their PR strategy, but the fact remains that they have been around for 20 years now, and I am not aware of any other third party that has been around that long.
Over that twenty years there have been several third parties that come and go and for a while make a big splash and then are never heard from again. I have always found it interesting that the major press outlets will give any of these parties quite a bit of coverage, but will very rarely give Libertarians any coverage at all. Could it be that the press understands that if the general public were to finally start grasping what the principles of the Libertarians are that the press would not be the power base that they are now and so have developed a policy to not truthfully cover Libertarian positions?
But at any rate if we are ever able to get back to the idea of a small limited, non intrusive into peoples private affairs, type of government, it will indeed be a long struggle. But for me that struggle starts with my vote and my refusal to give it to a party that’s basic principles are the advancement of socialism. Which today can be used to describe both the Democrats or Republican parties
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