Ross Perot won 19% of the popular vote in 1992, which scared the Establishment witless. Since then, all sorts of hurdles have been instituted to suppress competition from independent and third-party candidates. You are correct that a candidate would have to be both a billionaire and someone so famous that no news network would dare exclude him.
This is very true! I left the Republican party because I wasn't a partisan, I believe that the libertarian party is one vehicle among many to pursue Liberty, and it's maybe the more difficult one.
People who complain about this are dumb, this is a difference in tactics, not philosophy.
We also shouldn't be putting all of our eggs in one basket. As much heat as Steve Smith and others took for endorsing Donald Trump when he had said specifically that he wouldn't invade other countries and do regime change Wars, this started moving the conversation in a good direction. There are a lot of Republicans now who agree with us on War.
We're still hoping Trump will back down from regime change war in Iran, but the fact that the Libertarians caused the Civil War in the Republican party isn't a bad thing, and I'm hoping that the libertarian party will be there to be an alternative for that anti-war angst when the Republicans let them down again.
But we need to embrace all of the above, agorism, the Republican Party, The Democratic Party where they're good, AND a strong Libertarian Party.
I'd love for you to explore why Ross Perot managed to make a relatively successful third party run and we haven't had that since 1992.
Does it require a brand name billionaire to run third party? Or has that avenue been effectively shut off by the two parties?
Ross Perot won 19% of the popular vote in 1992, which scared the Establishment witless. Since then, all sorts of hurdles have been instituted to suppress competition from independent and third-party candidates. You are correct that a candidate would have to be both a billionaire and someone so famous that no news network would dare exclude him.
So basically we would have to hope that the Rock wants to run independently.... great... 🤡 world here we come!!
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This is very true! I left the Republican party because I wasn't a partisan, I believe that the libertarian party is one vehicle among many to pursue Liberty, and it's maybe the more difficult one.
People who complain about this are dumb, this is a difference in tactics, not philosophy.
We also shouldn't be putting all of our eggs in one basket. As much heat as Steve Smith and others took for endorsing Donald Trump when he had said specifically that he wouldn't invade other countries and do regime change Wars, this started moving the conversation in a good direction. There are a lot of Republicans now who agree with us on War.
We're still hoping Trump will back down from regime change war in Iran, but the fact that the Libertarians caused the Civil War in the Republican party isn't a bad thing, and I'm hoping that the libertarian party will be there to be an alternative for that anti-war angst when the Republicans let them down again.
But we need to embrace all of the above, agorism, the Republican Party, The Democratic Party where they're good, AND a strong Libertarian Party.
In paragraph three, do you mean Dave Smith?