Why don't more people join the Libertarian Party?

Question

I can't believe some people are so delusional and dumbed down that they don't realize both the Republican and Democrat Parties are owned by the same groups of ultra-rich corporations and the criminals who own those corporations. They have fun endorsing their candidates they support on the media sources they own like Fox News, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, and extremely wealthy businessman and brainwashing the general public to support those mainstream candidates on TV and they laugh all the way to the bank when these morons all over the place are always arguing over which candidate or political party is better, when they both are owned by the same crooks. The only political party not hijacked by these crooks is the Libertarian Party, and the Libertarian Party never gets publicity on the news because they are against the crooks who run the biggest news sources. If you haven't noticed it, I will say quite plainly you are stupid.

I know I will be called stupid and crazy by the morons who vote Democrat or Republican, but these people are basically slaves for big corporations, and the people who call me stupid and crazy have the joke on them when the crooks are laughing at them for falling for their games and feeding them money right inton their hands.

Answer 1

I'm right in step with you friend. Ron Paul in 08. Once any leader tries doing the good honest work for the people, the Washington ploitical establishment assaults his character and he is a crazy person. What a system.

Answer 2

confident, i think of the Libertarian party has a surprisingly huge umbrella. Mike Gravel seems to be an common guy. i don't agree together with his one super huge international government imaginative and prescient, yet i might vote for him over approximately ninety 8% of the different applicants in the race. Ron Paul excepted, of path!

Answer 3

The strongest objection to being involved with Libertarian Party is they are not going to have an elected candidate. This is simply due to the structure of the electro-college and the present system for dispersment of political funding for elections. The independents are strong right now, but they all must be aligned with the two party system to have their vote heard. Certainly, a large number of Libertarian votes will garner "attention" but will not get anyone elected.

Thus, if a serious citizen wants his vote to make a difference in an election we need much reform.

Most people like me, who are conservative and ticked at present political candidates have no real choice that will make a difference, unless we get off our dead butts and run for office against the existing morons.

Answer 4

If more people understood the message of the Libertarian Party, people would flock to it, and it would be the largest political party in the country.

The "big two" political parties (the Democrats and the Republicans) are thwarting the message of the Libertarian Party by marginalizing it. They belittle Libertarian Party members and candidates because they want to perpetuate the Republicratic political system in this country!

Answer 5

I agree with the spirit of your question and think Ron Paul is the only honest candidate in the race.

However, it's a little misleading to say that the Libertarian Party opposes corporate criminals. Individual libertarians may not like the chicanery of corporate fatcats, but Libertarian philosophy is fully in support of the 'free' market that allows such nastiness to control our lives.

The only things that have kept us from the place we find ourselves today was the power of organized labor and a strong anti-trust regime. Libertarians have no room in their hearts for either of those.

Answer 6

Libertarianism may eventually become a major party here, but it will have to be able to get its full platform out there, on a larger scale, first... Not just the party line (it is risking becoming as bad a the other 2 lately), It must be able to attract those not just looking for less taxes, to be a viable alternative.

Answer 7

Libertarians are much more like Conservative Republicans than Democrats. However, they are like herding cat's, it's hard to get them to focus, because of what they stand for, they all have different opinions on the right thing to do. One thing they do agree on, is doing things constitutionally, and that's why, they and and true American's support Ron Paul and others like him.

Libertarians seem to know the facade of left and right, and come from people who were once moderate democrats or republicans.

Answer 8

But I thought the Libertarian Party was all about deregulation and privatization, kind of über-right, Nozick-style economics. Don't you think that serves Big Business, which you say the Republican and Democratic Parties do?

Answer 9

Mainly because libertarians like you sound so crazy. I'm a registered libertarian - but because I educated myself about third parties and found the libertarian party closest to my own views. Not because I heard such paranoid rantings.

It /is/ true that the major parties have very similar agendas once you scratch the hot-button surface issues like abortion, gay marriage, and whatnot. And, it is true that special interests - which include corporations, but also include race-based organizations, environmentalists, and other activists - do contribute heavily to both parties to buy 'access.' But, it is not a conspiracy, just garden-variety corruption.

Answer 10

I am a Libertarian, just registered as an independent. As are other fellow Libertarians.

The party gets too wrapped up in issues that are viewed as extreme, like the marijuana issue. It hurts with the media and the perception of mainstream America.