Comments (3)

• David C

  Well, I missed it, but I do have some ideas.

  First, I think the Republican party and the Democratic party are very weak. I think society would be a lot better off if it was libertarian republicans against everyone else - and I think libertarian interests may actually be able to corrale interests and force a change. There are a lot of people being killed by copyright and patent issues that the big parties are ignoring, there are a lot of people who are being killed by monitary sewage that both the big parties are ignoring too, these would be starting issues - to put a wedge between both parties and corral them toward the favored sides.

  One of the ultimate goals of the libertarian movement should be to force voters to choose between free and non free with as little confusion as possible. Only then can society and culture gain learning experiences between the success and failure of any given candidate.

  Perhaps the libertarian party can be used to controll a rebublo-libertarians by choosing to run or not run in a selective way that would guarantee that they can not win without the libertarian parties cooperation

  Second, I have had lots of ideas for schools. My idea is to shut down the public schools not by petitioning voters or government. But by getting a co-op to fund cheaper and competitive private alternatives that would suck all the students out of the government system. The co-op could in theory lower the funders costs by lowering their taxes by more than their coop fees. Once a certain threshold is reached, the voters would not have a vested interest to keep the public system alive.

  I don't think academia will make much of a difference in terms of libertarian influence. In some cases it is too corrupted by the copyright system and public subsidy. I think the difference will be made in the streets. The libertarian movement has a lot of petitioning room that is not being exploited. For example, most people on the streets are direct and indirect victims of the war on drugs and can clearly see how it doesn't help. Most are direct and indirect victims of crime, and would be sympatehtic to gun rights. If someone who is poor tried to walk down to the store, buy hot dogs, cook them up and sell them - they would be fined and go straight to jail. We can make a strong libertarian case for all these people. Most the poor are also the ultimate victim of the debt fiat monitary system we have in place today.

  One more thing, TV and newspapers will not cut it. The copyrights, regulations, and FCC controlls automatically bias these institutions to a statist slant. In fact, it would be in the libertarian best interest to do everything possible to ween as many people as possible off the established media to the point of even cinsidering free internet cafes in strategic areas. It would serve a dual purpose of promoting a libertarian message while at the same time weeking people off the established media.

  Finally, I think libertarians should have an offshore strategy. With the US trying to impose copyrights, patents, and bad money all over the world - in addition to umpopular military policy - this IMHO is ripe for the picking.

  Published: July 7, 2006 3:30 PM

• Keith Preston

  This is an issue I've given a fair amount of thought to over the years. Here's a couple of articles that outline my approach:
  http://www.attackthesystem.com/libertypopulism.html
  http://www.attackthesystem.com/strategy.html

  Published: July 7, 2006 10:27 PM

• Manuel Lora

  It would be good to also post the entire log of the chat, or at least the highlights.

  Published: July 7, 2006 11:16 PM