There is some allegation that the Libertarian Party of the US was began (in 1971, which would roughly be around Nixon's Southern Strategy) to fragment those who are so-called socially liberal. It's unclear (to me) whether that was in fact the original intent or became that way.
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the Libertarian Party is not a particularly effective organization so it's hard to know either way. Think-tanks like Cato are the leadership units of American libertarianism
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as the old joke goes: why are all the pizzas at libertarian meetups personal size? because compromising on toppings is theft
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I've occasionally wondered whether libertarianism, as a philosophy || ideology, is inherently too anticommunal for large(r)-scale self-organization (in order to better compete with the heavyweights), OR if that's an aspect of the expression of American Libertarians themselves.
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Replying to @gamespotting @palecur and
I.e. Has the LP reached the full limit of its potential, or do they still have room to expand (without ceasing to meet the minimum reqs of whatever it is to be (lowercase) libertarian)?
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libertarianism is genuinely unpopular so I think that really caps any bottom-up, party-based approach (as opposed to what the think-tanks do, which is infiltrate the elite)
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Why is it unpopular in US right now? Even on my campus, libertarian groups face intense opposition and pressure from administration. However, these groups are mostly looking at things through a different lens. Is it wrong for them to do so?
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Fwiw I am pretty libertarian, so I'm not saying it's unpopular with me. The general public is not anti-authoritarian, basically. The general public's average political position is "me and mine should get to have good stuff and be in charge"
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in general, folks don't want to abolish whips nearly as much as they want the whips to be in their own hands, sadly
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Replying to @palecur @sonyaellenmann and
They intuit power vacuums are expensive to sustain.
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let's update arthurian ethics "might for right" to "the power to maintain power vacuums"
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