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A Libertarian Insurrection
Kevin Connors on Sgt. Stryker’s Daily Briefing

An insurrection within the Libertarian Party is in the offing. A group of moderates, a sort of Libertarian version of the Democratic Leadership Council, made up principally of reformed Democrats and disaffected Republicans, is forming. Their intention is to wrest control of the Party from the ‘tin-foil hat’ crowd, and convert the LP into a viable alternative to the Republicrats.

This would be VERY welcome. With a few exceptions I tend to be economically very conservative but socially very liberal… where the Libertarians “live” on the expanded two dimentional political spectrum. But they tend to be very dogmatic and not very practical and do indeed come off as loons much of the time. Their general principles are absolutely right as far as I’m concerned, but because they know they have no chance of actually winning, they seems to be a lot of lock step to the ideological purity of the concept. Real life needs some concessions to reality.

If you can take the general ideals and concepts of the Libertarians, but attach some pragmatism and some connection to reality, they could be very compelling indeed.

I’ve voted Libertarian in the last two presidential elections, but I would feel MUCH better about it if a candidate came out of this “Reformed Libertarian” movement.

On the other hand, they do need to keep the overall perspective. If they just turned into clones of either the Republicans or democrats, they would become uninteresting.