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This seems more likely - how many libertarians are there in the US? Surely there are much larger groups you can appeal to if votes is what you're after
by IncreasePosts 11mo ago
This seems more likely - how many libertarians are there in the US? Surely there are much larger groups you can appeal to if votes is what you're after
- godshatter 11mo agoThere are dozens of us. And none of us can agree on anything.
- nazgulsenpai 11mo agoLibertarians are like independents except noone wants to try to win us over
- Ray20 11mo ago> Libertarians are like independents except noone wants to try to win us over Because they are not like independents. Democrats have moved so far left that it's not even a question of who libertarians will vote for. The candidate just needs to show them a little attention so they remember to register and vote.
- mothballed 11mo agoI don't think the crypto crowd was ever at hazard at not voting for Trump, so I'm not sure what the advantage would have been with respect to them. However, the libertarian crowd was. As a libertarian voter, the pardon for Ross was the only thing Trump did that actually brought me pause. To the point, I felt immensely guilty for not voting for him when I voted (L) because I knew[thought] I was damning Ross to a jail cell. It weighed on my conscious for a long time after the vote, an it wasn't until Trump won I felt somewhat absolved of the guilt.
- kmeisthax 11mo agoMy personal opinion regarding the Ross pardon is that the Libertarian Party sold its soul for a donut. They could have gotten way more out of Trump than pardoning one particular Internet drug dealer.
- smw 11mo agoInternet drug dealer doesn't really concern me, but he tried to have someone killed!
- anigbrowl 11mo agoThe Libertarian party got ~4.5 million votes in 2016. Getting some of those votes, or dissuading them from voting, is enough to make a difference in a tight race. See my other answer upthread for more context.