The concluding part of this document proposes actions that could have been taken in and for 2024. Further documents will follow.
WHERE DO WE GO AFTER THAT?
- The structure of the LNC is fundamentally broken. No matter who is in charge, the same dysfunction and time-consuming parliamentary procedure plagues the party. Merely electing “better” people is pointless. Several reasons:
- Too many committees, too much role & management confusion, too much time wasted for motivated high-achievers to tolerate.
- Size: With 25 seats, the discussion is unwieldy, members are disengaged, leaks are frequent, and internal division grows while factions vie for power.
- No working mechanisms for trust among staff and board. When all criticism is suppressed, how can necessary feedback be implemented?
- Between now and DC the entire party needs to come together to propose radically new bylaws and structure: redefining the actual purpose of the National Party, dissolving committees and transferring their functions to staff, reducing the size and scope of LNC, and enforcing self-policing on the board and Chair. We will need a lean and mean team of truly principled leaders who won’t make excuses, point fingers, and bend the truth in pursuit of their own selfish interests.
- At the macro level, libertarians who dream of challenging the cult of statism and achieving a political, cultural, societal rEVOLution of self-ownership and freedom MUST break free from toxic and limiting cults of personality that have plagued the movement for decades. Think of Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman, Samuel E. Konkin III, etc. All of these powerful figures made tremendous contributions to libertarian thought and activism. However, we as libertarians despite being philosophically individualist, too often do we fall prey to putting too much hope and trust into talented but flawed people who cast a compelling vision with grandiose promises, who then get a taste for the limelight and resort to clout chasing and laziness, using the blind loyalty of followers to shield themselves from criticism and stall progress. We are running out of time. Our enemy the Cult has been thinking and playing on the multi-generational scale, and We the People are very far behind in securing the continuation of our lives and liberties. We have only each other now to rely on when times get much tougher, when the omnipotent state ratchets down even harder, and every other freedom-loving community has been divided and destroyed. There can be absolutely no backstabbing or petty politicking if we are to build a community that can withstand the tyranny that lies ahead and its inevitable self-destruction and devastation. Get the fuck off social media and stop feeding the egos of all the fake bitches who are happy to take your money and attention and lifeforce. Focus on the real relationships with real people in your life who will ride out the storm with you until the end. PEACE AND FREEDOM
There was a proposed change from the bylaws committee last time to change the structure of the LNC, shrinking the size to 11.
Whether this is Miguel or Ana Duque or not’s writing. I wonder if the writer noticed that they never explain the difference between “criticism” and the actions of “fake bitches who are happy to take your money and attention and lifeforce”.
Seems to me the LNC isn’t stifling debate but exorcising the “fake bitches”. Naturally, those complaining aren’t engaged in debate but fearmongering stoking visions of disaster while advocating against changes that challenge the toxic LP culture that sustains them.
Of course, I prefer Dr. Phillies hosting a platform for debate.
Finding out that chair and her boy toy had created shell companies and pacs to take money from a competing candidate while trying to block our candidate from getting on the ballot. Disclosing none of this as a conflict of interest… seems one hell of way to instill faith in the rest of us that she (or people like you) can be trusted.
“When all criticism is suppressed, how can necessary feedback be implemented?”
Good thing that doesn’t happen any more. The irony is that Duque wanted to stifle criticism he didn’t agree with as it appears in the prior pieces. Those were “destructive” but his is correct. The hypocrisy of leopard face eaters.