Quoth Brian Holtz: "I've criticized the WSPP not only for its brevity but also for ruling out many of the proposals for decentralization and defederalization that bother moderate and radical libertarians support."
The WSPP doesn't "rule out" anything. It simply lays out criteria for what the party adopting it as a platform will or will not support. Perhaps the brevity IS the problem -- I didn't see any need to include in the platform mention of the likelihood, approaching 100%, that any organization adopting it would be one party in a multi-party system -- the party that always stands for smaller, and never for larger, government. Nor did I expand it to make explicit the implicit but obvious fact that if government gets so small that a member of that party doesn't want it to get any smaller, he or she is free to leave that party and join a party that advocates government of the existing size, or bigger government. Regards, Tom Knapp
