The LP isn't capable of winning, let alone starting that swim toward shore.
That's the problem, you say we can't get to shore by swimming because it's too far so don't bother trying, I say we can't get to shore because we're not trying. You say the LP isn't capable of winning an election because no one votes for them (obviously), I say if enough people voted for them, they'd win an election. You cannot possibly be saying that even if enough people voted Libertarian they still wouldn't win an election, that's illogical.
They're only incapable of winning because to many people are afraid to swim. That's an issue with the people, not the party.
Thats the big problem with the LP ... they still can't get it through their heads that the Greens have a better chance of landing a candidate in higher office and that by splitting the pro-liberty vote between Republicans and Libertarians we do nothing but put Democrats in office.
So they should just get out of the way then? To hell with their pro-liberty views, right, let's just all vote Republican and get bigger government and the erosion of our rights just as much as we'd get from the big D's, just in different areas. Yeah, that sounds like a great alternative, fear mongering over a doomsday "The Democrats will win the House and the Presidential Election" is a good scare tactic to keep people voting for your party, but it's hardly a solution to the problem that both the GOP and The Democrats stink to high heaven these days.
The only way we'll see large scale implementation of libertarian ideals is if they are pushed by people with (R) after their name, because we damn sure aren't going to see the DNC support freedom (other than freedom to hate America, offend Christians and to stick it in what/whomever you want).
That's a nice thought, but it's not gonna happen. The R's aren't about liberty, they just want a different piece of the People's Pie than the Dems do.
We're given a choice between one side infringing on our liberties and another side doing the same, just in different areas or ways, and your position is that we should try and change one of the parties and vote for them than to abandon them as a whole and vote for the party that actually supports our beliefs?
That's like telling your best friend to marry the chick that won't let him out of the house without her with him, makes him go to the church that she chooses, invades his privacy and snoops through his mail, listens to his phone calls and reads his e-mails just because she says she won't make him get rid of his guns because it's better than the bisexual chick that wants to spend all of his money while she doesn't work, won't let him hunt or hike and would make him get rid of his guns. To me, that's not a choice, that's a suicide pact with an idiot.
Me, I'll stay single as long as I have to in order to find the girl that respects the both of us enough to recognize that we're both free individuals in a partnership and values that as much as or above anything else. Fortunately enough for me, I’ve already found her, and even if she never agrees to marry me, I'd rather spend my time in a fruitless effort towards freedom than a successful endeavor of servitude.
When exercising the right to vote in this country became more about picking a winner than being active in the political process and making our voices heard, we started going downhill faster than any speedometer was capable of calculating, and the Democratic and Republican bookies are cashing in at the track and laughing all the way to the bank while we sit with our programs in hand like imbeciles with empty pockets cheering our horse on long after we’ve run out of money to make a bet.