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Originally Posted by lookout123
the libertarian party, like all other parties is fucked to the core, because in order to get people to ally themselves into a cohesive unit big enough to wield real power the individual libertarians have to make compromises on what they believe a libertarian to be...
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Compromising is a prerequisite for many party politics. In a political pool where only two parties completely dominate everything and where gerrymandering manipulated politics to the advantage of extremists of those two parties, then no third party has a hope in hell.
Remember why Ross Perot so scared every communist from Democrat and Republican parties. Perot got as much as 20% of the vote. Those who work for a party rather than for America cannot afford such power in a third party. They would have to negotiate with that third party that got votes only because Amerians rejected self serving Democrats and Republicans. Fear and loathing would occur on a campaign trail where America is more important that the party. Unfortunately for any third party, the game is rigged. Gerrymangering is simply one tool.