Quote:
|
Originally Posted by !@#$%!
yes-- i'd tell them get on the city council, get a state governor elected, take over a state legislature, show you what you can do at the local level before we can take you seriously to run the country.
the way they run they're doomed to receive a perpetual 1% of the vote.
|
It's more important that people with libertarian ideas get elected than members of the Libertarian Party though. For the most part, the party represents some of the worst things about libertarians. They don't speak to the issues that many people are concerned about such as the environment or health care, but rather continue to push the old ideological battles like gun ownership, etc. There are new issues for the times we live in, and there are indeed libertarian perspectives that can address these issues. So yes, they need to focus locally but they also need to focus on issues that they have generally avoided in order to gain more support for their ideas.