Monday, December 10, 2007
The LP: an ideological political party
In a discussion at the Reason blog about the LNC's Ron Paul resolution, a poster ("Rimfax") makes what I think is a very good point about the Party:
Part of the problem with the LP is that the leadership keeps playing politics as if this were just another political party. Celebrity candidates and artificial emergencies work for other parties because they are nothing more than minimally-anchored political vehicles. There is only a tiny amount of ideological continuity. Each campaign is a short battle, not an ongoing effort to move the culture of the world.
The LP depends on the success of libertarianism, not the other way around. No other party, not even the Greens, are that strongly coupled to an ideology. There are efforts to decouple the LP from libertarian ideology. All they'll do is turn it into another moving target, another back bencher.
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Susan Hogarth
http://www.colliething.com
¶ 5:06 PM
Part of the problem with the LP is that the leadership keeps playing politics as if this were just another political party. Celebrity candidates and artificial emergencies work for other parties because they are nothing more than minimally-anchored political vehicles. There is only a tiny amount of ideological continuity. Each campaign is a short battle, not an ongoing effort to move the culture of the world.
The LP depends on the success of libertarianism, not the other way around. No other party, not even the Greens, are that strongly coupled to an ideology. There are efforts to decouple the LP from libertarian ideology. All they'll do is turn it into another moving target, another back bencher.
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Susan Hogarth
http://www.colliething.com
¶ 5:06 PM
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I hardly think a political party can exist without the playing of politics. Of course, the LP has only really been playing *at* politics for most of its not-even-backbenching existence. Maybe this is progress ;)
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