The article is truly representative of a sleazy drama - and that’s putting it nice. We learn that Oliver condemned the post:
Chase Oliver, the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee, condemned the since-deleted post.
That’s great.
But then the LPNH responded - to him - their candidate leader, I stress… as follows:
The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire responded to Oliver’s statement, telling him to “f*** off” and “read any book on libertarianism.” They went on to call him a homophobic slur.
It’s seemingly out of The Onion - except it’s for real.
They have not progressed since this incident
read any book on libertarianism
I have a suggestion.
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear. Bonus points because it’s even about New Hampshire libertarians.
From what I read, it seemed like the problem was more with libertariansthan it was with libertarianism.
Like, the type of person that would leave their homes to live in a town they read about online that promises a libertarian mecha… of course it’s gonna fail. I bet if you get similar demographics of dudes that support Bernie Sanders, that town would fail too.
I don’t doubt that Libertarianism would be terrible for 99% of people, and incredible for 1%, but I doubt it would fail this spectacularly.
The problem is that American Libertarians aren’t libertarian. They’re masquerading economic liberals.
The reason their government has failed and always will fail. Is because they are against government itself. All but the most dogmatic, ideological, and importantly antisocial anarchist and actual libertarians recognize the need for government and it’s existence. They just believe it should be largely flat, answerable, and as much as possible based in consent. Even national/federal goverment is acceptable depending on structure and ability.
American Libertarians only support government that protects their personal privilege. And nothing else.
And while it’s possible for any group to fail. No other group self sabotages so completely from the start.
Hey hey, many of those dipshits moved into NH to try and take over the state because we already had slightly crazy politics.
Because NH has 400 stare representatives (and 24 more state senators), it’s easy to get morons elected in small towns. As with most libertarian “plans” though, it didn’t work for very long.
American libertarianism is great. Most of them have vastly different ideas of what libertarianism is or should be, and none of those ideas work.
Because the LP of NH isn’t more than a bunch of bigots and racist hiding behind the LP name. It’s like the worst people from every party decided to go and join it.
If you want to know why it feels like that,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project
That may have contributed.
