The Libertarian National Committee Bylaws Committee has prepared for consideration by the delegates at NatCon a change in the rules on deleting platform planks, to make plank deletion more difficult. The change in the deletion process reads:
“As its first item of platform business, the convention shall vote whether to delete each of those planks that received a number of tokens for deletion equal to (Replace “20%” with “1/3″) or more of the number of credentialed delegates. Such votes shall be cast without amendment or debate.”
As the Bylaws Committee has also proposed reducing the number of tokens from five per delegate to three per delegate, plank deletion will become even more difficult than it is now.
(And thanks to Darryl Perry for pointing out that the original headline was incorrect. It has now been fixed.)
The title of this is “Proposed Bylaws Change to Further Restrict Bylaws Changes” however the text is about amending the platform.
It’s now been corrected
The people who organized to make drastic changes to the platform in 2022 want to make it harder for other people to organize to reverse those drastic changes to the platform in 2024.
As the joke goes about revolutionaries promising democracy, “One man, one vote…one time.”
Are you surprised they would do that?
Disappointed, but not surprised.
It was very obvious from the beginning that transparency and respect for member rights were only going to be used to attack the establishment, with no intent of respecting either once they became the establishment.
This is how populists operate, “rules for thee, but not for me.”