What I'm saying is it would be wise for libertarians to concentrate very little on high end political office. To get libertarian ideas across probally will reqire spending enough time with people showing them why big government and central planning is counterproductive for them, their familes and other people they care about, that is probally going to take people they respect, the natural allies and associates in their world the natural leaders in their world and communicators they trust. Hayek call these people the opion molders in Intellectuals and Socialism.--- In [email protected], "steven linnabary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "terry12622000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > You all are missing the idea, mass central top/ down government has > > no real value in fact it is a great big negative, a very big burden. > > Libertarian ideas are not likely to gain from the top/ down with the > > typical pushing of mass politics, 30 second sound bites and high > > office political office. Even the Democrats and Republicans just > > trade places on the titanic every few years, they have no real > > promise of getting much of anything meaningful done, they are playing > > a losers game, a slow game but the pace quickens, it would be very > > foolish for libertarians to continue to play their loser game.--- > > My point was that a winning candidate must work harder than his opponents. > Andre Marrou said it was easy to get elected...you just have to knock on > more doors, spend more money, and be where your opponents are not. > > You can bet that the republican and the democrat are on the phone calling > everybody they know, and everybody those people know, and people nobody > knows, to extract as much money as possible. One of them will win. > > The Libertarian (and the Green) candidate will send out a couple of news > releases, and respond to some candidate forums, and hope that the voters get > the message. > > Guess what? Your average voter doesn't even know there is an election > coming up until a couple weeks before it happens. He (or she) isn't > interested in reading the League of Women Voters guide (if they even know > where to get one). > > Their time is valuable to them. Why would they waste their vote on somebody > that can't even get a thirty second commercial on their favorite radio > station? > > Not to mock "educational" campaigns. I've done them. I had fun, but I > wasn't delusional enough to think that I might win. I had one issue, and > played it fairly well. But it was pure Libertarian, straight out of the LP > Platform. > > PEACE > Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer > Franklin County Libertarian Party > (614) 891-8841 > P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 > > "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution > inevitable" John F. Kennedy >
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