Note to self about LP members…
Libertarian Party members, in aggregate, may actually be the worst possible prospects for libertarian outreach, on average. What they have right is often outweighed by a firm commitment to what they have wrong. To paraphrase Reagan(?), I believe — it’s not what they don’t know, but what they do know (100%) that just isn’t so.
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So in your experiences, who are the best possible prospects?
That’s the Sixty-Four Trillion Dollar Question…
How about _former_ LP members?
I think Greens, libertarian-leaning socialists, and left-libertarian-leaning Democrats may be the best prospects in the U.S. They often correctly identify injustice—their hearts are in the right place—but they usually incorrectly identify the cause of this injustice.
Beg pardon, but this ignores the obvious fact that many market anarchists started out as minarchists and LP members, including yourself.
The quote was actually Will Rogers, not Reagan.
– Roderick Long, occasional LP member