{"id":2135,"date":"2016-08-31T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2016-08-31T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:38:59","slug":"my-libertarian-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2135","title":{"rendered":"My Libertarian Friends!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>Libertarian friends, follow me for a minute&#8230;PICK a candidate. No, not for this November, for November of 2020. This time, it&#8217;s too late. ALL you will do is skew the results, and I fear it won&#8217;t be in favor of the &#8220;lesser of two evils&#8221; but for the greater. We just can&#8217;t have that. Else you, your children, your grandchildren and, likely as not, your GREAT grandchildren will pay the price.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>Here&#8217;s the issue as I see it. MOST people ONLY hear about Libertarians for a few months before and a month or so after a general election. Other than that, it&#8217;s pretty quiet on the Libertarian front. I know you don&#8217;t think so. You hear about it all the time. MOST people don&#8217;t. Get out there! Get large! Get LOUD! Get into people&#8217;s line of sight, not their peripheral vision. Start &#8220;workin&#8217; it&#8221;. Make sure your people that are already sitting DECLARE that they aren&#8217;t an &#8220;I&#8221;, but an &#8220;L&#8221; next to their state, county or town. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><span><span>You see, when people think Libertarian they think &#8220;pot smokers&#8221;. You&#8217;ve got to get away from the perception that &#8220;WEED is our ISSUE&#8221;. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><span><span>I&#8217;m not making a value judgement, here, but that&#8217;s the optics many, (MANY), people use. \u00a0You have so many other good, valid views! \u00a0Views that &#8220;TRUE&#8221; Conservatives used to espouse! \u00a0Personal responsibility. \u00a0Rugged individualism. \u00a0SMALLER government. \u00a0Lower taxes \/ less wasted spending. \u00a0And on and on. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">But you can&#8217;t just do it for six months every four years.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">Elsewhere on this site you&#8217;ll see my essay on resurging the Democratic-Republican Party. \u00a0Another idea the time has come to rekindle. \u00a0Many of the values held dear by those who wrote, arguably, the most significant documents on the planet are held by me, and to some extent, YOU. \u00a0But nobody knows it.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">Take of your jacket. \u00a0Loosen your tie. \u00a0Roll up your sleeves. \u00a0Go to the farms and factories. \u00a0The boys&#8217; clubs and the 4-H. \u00a0The ghetto and the country club. \u00a0It&#8217;s almost, but not quite, too late for 2020. \u00a0Get to work.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\">Of course, NONE of this will matter until 2120 if we allow the current ruling party into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue again this year.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libertarian friends, follow me for a minute&#8230;PICK a candidate. No, not for this November, for November of 2020. This time, it&#8217;s too late. ALL you will do is skew the results, and I fear it won&#8217;t be in favor of the &#8220;lesser of two evils&#8221; but for the greater. We just can&#8217;t have that. Else<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2135\">Continue Reading&rsaquo;&rsaquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}