The Libertarian Atheist

Oh and this is a must read as well, it's older but very well written and an awesome introduction to Gary:

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RestrictedAccess said:

Wow…his stances on drugs and prostitution are almost identical to mine. I like his idea on the voucher system, too. I have to wonder about his other stances though. Is there a website that has his opinions and past political decisions handy? I don't know if ontheissues.org has them in their database.

http://ouramericainitiative.com/

That's his own organization that he's been building. If you go there you will find 99% of his stances on things.

What I probably like best about him? When he talks about the actions he's going to take with voters and people in the community, he doesn't bring up his "principles" that are driving him. He talks about the problem and how his actions are fixing or going to fix it. I never thought of it before but that is how Libertarian statesmen need to REACH the people, this is what Republicans and Democrats have been doing for YEARS. It's the way people think. Problem + Solution = Success. Whether there is success or not, people still like to hear it though they may be less likely to listen if you haven't been successful in the past. You average person on the street is too busy with their own life to listen to messages, that is why, though we are still a heavily religious nation, people hate being preached to by proselytes. This is what Libertarian Statesmen MUST do:

1. Explain the problem
2. Explain the non-government solution
3. Engage the solution

People already KNOW that it is a government-free or freeing solution, they do NOT need to be told, use words like "grass-roots" and "community action". If the solutions are successful, the next time these people hear of government-free solutions, they will be MUCH more prone to hearing it, more excitable. This is how we win not only MINDS but movements, by successful solution after successful solution and by not encouraging the adoption of our "labels" we encourage other movements and groups to adopt our ideas and ideals. Isn't that what it's all about?

It seems that nowadays both major parties are infused with big government thinking, what's stopping us from changing that? What's stopping us from infusing back into those major parties our thinking? We do it by being successful and popular. I believe we have the successful thing down, small government WORKS, we know that, we just have to work on the popular part. . . Gary Johnson appears to be good at this.

I don't think that it will be possible to elect a president who is not a member of the two major parties, I think a win for classical liberals within a break with the Republicans would be just the ticket to get the GOP grounded back in liberty.

Who knows, perhaps in four years time the Democrats will be primed for a classic liberal, perhaps Gary. . . stranger things have happened. I could see him focusing on the social issues, the backlash against the religious right could end up being the BEST thing to ever happen to the cause of liberty.

Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive movement did this exact thing in the opposite direction for the Democrats and "Progressives" (socialists), he broke the Progressives from the conservative Republicans, splitting it in half. When the Democrats came to their "senses" and began to cater to the socialists they became an unstoppable force.

Can you see it now? Here's the slogan, "Returning Jefferson's Party to Jeffersonian Thinking".

Perhaps I'm thinking way too far ahead? Maybe twenty or thirty years too far ahead. . .