That meme should have been posted every day of 2020 - 2021. ;-)
The obsession over this year's midterms is amusing....I suppose because it's allegedly not going to go the establishment's way. I say allegedly because what politicians say and what politicians do are two different things. The TEA party republicans were assimilated into the business-as-usual blob fairly quickly, for instance, and Bernie and AOC are as in touch with the working man as I am with the British royal family. :p
Well, the Libertarian party was actually on the ballot this year in Alabama. That's promising, especially since the Mises caucus took over and the the old guard (republican lite/republicans who like weed) are gone, replaced by the far more feisty Real Libertarians (TM). I was mostly voting on the amendments and local referendum. There's a slight change that Alabama's incredibly inefficient and unsuitable constitution (created by planters to centralized a lot of local decision-making in Montgomery) could be streamlined a bit. I'd prefer it be replaced altogether.
Nationally, no. In the last few presidential elections we haven't been able to crack the 5% threshhold, and that includes 2016 when the other choices were a raging man-child and a career politico in drastic mental decline. Democratic supporters are wholly married to the state these days -- they're even pro-war! -- so there's no overlap between them and libertarian thinking or politics. Tulsi Gabbard was one of the few in that party who could find common ground with libertarians (she being anti-war, anti-police state, etc), but she's so disgusted by the jackass party that she just left it. The Dems of days past could have found common ground, but these days they're more interested in promoting ideology than serving the public interest. There's a lot of overlap between 'fiscal conservatives' and 'small government' types in the Republican party and libertarians, but most stick with the GOP because they don't pay attention to its track record (it's just as terrible as the Dems on spending money and expanding government bloat, Reagan included) and because it's already established and in a better position to fight back.
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That meme should have been posted every day of 2020 - 2021. ;-)
The obsession over this year's midterms is amusing....I suppose because it's allegedly not going to go the establishment's way. I say allegedly because what politicians say and what politicians do are two different things. The TEA party republicans were assimilated into the business-as-usual blob fairly quickly, for instance, and Bernie and AOC are as in touch with the working man as I am with the British royal family. :p
I guess we'll see how things turn out for all involved - including the working man.... [grin]
Well, the Libertarian party was actually on the ballot this year in Alabama. That's promising, especially since the Mises caucus took over and the the old guard (republican lite/republicans who like weed) are gone, replaced by the far more feisty Real Libertarians (TM). I was mostly voting on the amendments and local referendum. There's a slight change that Alabama's incredibly inefficient and unsuitable constitution (created by planters to centralized a lot of local decision-making in Montgomery) could be streamlined a bit. I'd prefer it be replaced altogether.
Do the Libertarians get many votes generally?
Nationally, no. In the last few presidential elections we haven't been able to crack the 5% threshhold, and that includes 2016 when the other choices were a raging man-child and a career politico in drastic mental decline. Democratic supporters are wholly married to the state these days -- they're even pro-war! -- so there's no overlap between them and libertarian thinking or politics. Tulsi Gabbard was one of the few in that party who could find common ground with libertarians (she being anti-war, anti-police state, etc), but she's so disgusted by the jackass party that she just left it. The Dems of days past could have found common ground, but these days they're more interested in promoting ideology than serving the public interest. There's a lot of overlap between 'fiscal conservatives' and 'small government' types in the Republican party and libertarians, but most stick with the GOP because they don't pay attention to its track record (it's just as terrible as the Dems on spending money and expanding government bloat, Reagan included) and because it's already established and in a better position to fight back.
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