The absolutely most frustrating part of the LP is the fact that they won’t participate. It’s like playing chess and moving all the pieces like pawns. The game has rules— whether you like them or not—-and you can’t win without using those rules to your advantage. Given how much the populist movement of Trump’s campaign leans into getting rid of bureaucracy and government overreach, you’d think they’d want to have a say in that. While it’s not THE goal, it’s a stepping stone towards it.
Principles are important, but one might argue that the LP violates principles the moment it participates in politics at all…
But if they’re going to play, they might as well try to ACHIEVE something rather than virtue signal. Nobody cares how ideologically pure you are, if you are irrelevant.
That being said, Chase Oliver was an odd choice. It’s almost as if the LP wanted to make a deliberate statement of how much they DIDN’T care about winning. “Here’s a guy with fringe views. But wait, there’s more! He was also pro-COVID tyranny!”
Maybe that’s why the state-level LP candidates (in Indiana) did so much better than Oliver did at the national level.
You can be a conscientious objector and still be in the military. Military still needs truck drivers, nurses, cooks, etc. If the LP wants to have any meaningful purpose, they do need to get more involved. I personally think Chase Oliver was a plant to help Trump — a Kingmaker. But I like the *idea* of less govt and wish the LP didn’t suck so much.
The absolutely most frustrating part of the LP is the fact that they won’t participate. It’s like playing chess and moving all the pieces like pawns. The game has rules— whether you like them or not—-and you can’t win without using those rules to your advantage. Given how much the populist movement of Trump’s campaign leans into getting rid of bureaucracy and government overreach, you’d think they’d want to have a say in that. While it’s not THE goal, it’s a stepping stone towards it.
Principles are important, but one might argue that the LP violates principles the moment it participates in politics at all…
But if they’re going to play, they might as well try to ACHIEVE something rather than virtue signal. Nobody cares how ideologically pure you are, if you are irrelevant.
That being said, Chase Oliver was an odd choice. It’s almost as if the LP wanted to make a deliberate statement of how much they DIDN’T care about winning. “Here’s a guy with fringe views. But wait, there’s more! He was also pro-COVID tyranny!”
Maybe that’s why the state-level LP candidates (in Indiana) did so much better than Oliver did at the national level.
You can be a conscientious objector and still be in the military. Military still needs truck drivers, nurses, cooks, etc. If the LP wants to have any meaningful purpose, they do need to get more involved. I personally think Chase Oliver was a plant to help Trump — a Kingmaker. But I like the *idea* of less govt and wish the LP didn’t suck so much.