Topic: Politics
How do you get a group of people who don't like heavily centralized power structures to work in the Party System of the United States?
Bach Talk.net has a great post on LP "reform movements." It is worth the read. Read the full post at Bach Talk.net.
The trouble is, the system is designed in a way that runs completely contrary to individual control. Until Democrats and Republicans begin to see how distant the system has become from its roots in the principles of the Social Contract forwarded by Locke, Libertarians don't have a prayer. Why? Parties are best suited to a parliamentary system. They lock in votes for specific agendas.
What the hell do you do if your specific agenda has threads running through four different parties? Libertarians are best when the individual is allowed to shine. We also have such divergent views that it is almost impossible to get us all going in one direction. So how do we get "reform."
It strikes me that it should happen outside of the party construct. I haven't worked out how. Yet.
