Tyler Cowen asks, Should libertarians side with the Democrats? and gets some interesting responses:
- The Libertarian Reform Caucus advocates a flexible alliance process wherein libertarians leverage the votes they can garner, bargaining with whomever will make reasonable offers in close elections. Many small parties do this in Europe and not only publicize their ideas effectively, but also play kingmaker on occasion.
With so many close elections right here in the US, it is time to stop complaining that we don’t have all the prerogatives that third parties have in Europe. Check out plans for ‘Building Liberty Today’ and the story of how much of the LP’s platform was discarded at the recent national convention: http://www.reformthelp.org/home/intro/
— Dave Meleney
- As Stalin might have said, “How many divisions do the libertarians have?” Libertarians are far more prevalent on the Web than in the voting booth.
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Why are libertarians far more prevalent on the Web than in real life? Who needs real life when you’ve got the Internet? Both libertarianism and the Internet attract a lot of nerdy bachelors who are good at logic, but perhaps don’t understand how the world actually works quite as well as they imagine they do.— Steve Sailer
- Remember the old joke:
If you’re a Democrat, you want more people to vote Libertarian.
If you’re a Republican, you want more people to vote Green.— Peter