After the 2020 election, there were several articles on the future of the Libertarian Party (LP) fighting to be heard in a controlled political duopoly system of Democrats and Republicans. In “Guerrilla Politics,” the author argues that the LP should admit it cannot win significant elections, that ballot access is a “vanity project,” and the…
By Stephen Weese During the last presidential election cycle, I performed a mathematical analysis of the phenomenon of “wasted votes” and determined that there were many fallacies assumed by people using that term. Wasted votes, specifically, are votes that have no outcome on the election – including all of the votes for the losing candidate…
A cardinal rule of third party politics is that every candidate must act like they’re going to – or even could – win their election (in the sense of attaining the office), regardless of how unrealistic a goal that may be. But I say we should leave lying to the voters to the old parties…
A few weeks ago, I dove into the question of why everyone hates libertarians, and why we hate each other. Having stirred that hornet’s nest, it’s now time to look into a related question: should libertarians be in the Libertarian Party (“LP”)? Or one of the two duopoly parties? Or, should we just stay out…
Libertarians and other political third-parties will soon find out if fairness in federal courts extends to political third-parties, or is fairness confined to major party candidates. The answer will establish the degree of loyalty each branch of government has to political parties over the Constitution. On the week of February 10, 2020 the U.S. Court…
This article isn’t intended as a criticism of the people in the Libertarian Party (LP) who are working hard every day to advance the cause of liberty. These “get those petitions signed in the rain” Libertarians are the kind of salt of the earth people needed to build a successful liberty movement. I do take…
Citizens instinctively mistrust the government. Citizens believe the government is failing them. The public is ready for a major third-party. The real question is whether the Libertarian party wants to assume that role? A year ago, Austin Petersen and Tony D’Orazio wrote excellent point, counterpoint articles in The Libertarian Republic addressing the question – Can Libertarians Win? That question should be asked…
This series of articles explores options to break the monopoly control of our government by the two major political parties. The first article describes the monopoly. The second discusses tactics used to maintain the monopoly. The third article suggests using a civil rights law to secure reasonably permanent ballot access and compensation for injury. This…
Part I of this series sets out the fact that independent and third-party candidates only hold 0.0003246% of all elected offices. The two major parties, Republican and Democratic, hold 99.96%. It appears from history that such control has been obtained by violating the constitutional rights of third-party candidates and could be a monopoly that restrains…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Micah J. Fleck I was able to book an interview with Ken Bone (the sudden star of the second 2016 presidential debate who asked the only real questions of the night) during an appearance Mr. Bone made at CPAC 2017. It was short, but sweet, and the most surprising…