01-07-2018, 09:50 PM
(01-07-2018, 01:52 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(01-07-2018, 12:05 PM)David Horn Wrote:(01-07-2018, 05:32 AM)Galen Wrote: The D's and R's have got the ballot access laws rigged to make it much harder for anyone else to get on the ballot. They also do the same thing in the debates. I assure you that the last thing either major party wants to do is debate libertarians.
The only place a debate with libertarians would be a net plus is on Comedy Central. We all need a good laugh.
However, the RNC and DNC have gone out of their way to prevent third party candidates. So the question becomes why? Are they so humorless as you suggest? I would venture not. Rather, they are concerned that they might move the Overton Window into a direction that both committees have not mutually agreed is where it should be.
This is a conclusion that I came to a very long time ago. One thing I learned long ago was that that the R's are even more hostile to libertarians than the Dims are. You have no idea how much the RNC and elites within the Republican party hate Ron Paul who is most definitely a libertarian.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises