I pause to present two images from my book Libertarian Renaissance. They have been used elsewhere. The first is a plot of membership in various years around 2000. You will notice that there is a peak near the year 2000. That’s when the LNC voted to adopt Project Archimedes. Membership never climbed a great deal. Soon thereafter, membership began to…
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As written in the early noughts: My sources with old issues of Mass Liberty, the Libertarian Association of Massachusetts newsletter, quote from ‘An Interview with Harry Browne’ published in the June, 1995 issue: “As far as money is concerned, I don’t know how much we’ll raise, but we are aiming at 50 million dollars… We have a lot of avenues…
Bill Redpath wrote ask for 20 minutes on the agenda for consideration of the following two motions: Whereas, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire has regularly posted social media content that reasonable people would consider to have racist meanings, which, with other inflammatory posts, has cast the Libertarian Party in a bad light on the national stage; Whereas, the…
Our discussion last time did not reach a central question? Why are membership and donations falling? On one hand, from the perspective of many members, the Libertarian party has dropped out of sight. LP News is no longer published. News emails are uncommon. For some time, the LNC’s public email list disappeared. We have not done a complete survey, but…
Dasbach’s interpretation is astonishing. The Policy Manual provided a blanket ban on ‘support’ with absolutely no qualification as to whether the support consisted of material goods or intangible services, whether it was donated or paid for, or whether or not it was reciprocated by the campaign. The claim that ‘support’ ceases to be ‘support’ if the supporter calls himself a…
We now reach substantive content. We quote from the report: Members and donors vote with their wallets. Either those wallets are open or closed to support appeals from the organization. These wallet votes have spoken loudly for the past few years, and it has not been a ringing endorsement. Only a change in the board’s collective vision and behavior can…
Chapters are from my book Funding Liberty, available from Third Millennium 3mpub.com. (A few days ago, their money handler indicated that they are closing, so they are in the middle of switching to a new contractor. Momentarily, email me phillies@4liberty.com if you want a copy of the PDF of the entire volume.) Ahmad further noted that there was a…
Here the report complains that LNC Chairs have set the vision for the national party: Yet, tumultuous shifts in leadership perspectives are not the only factors impacting how the organization may have gotten to this point. Some of the current reputation and financial standing could be based on the historical pattern of how the organization’s vision has been established. In…
I continue to reprint segments of my book Funding Liberty, available at https://3mpub.com/phillies/Politics.html. After all, if the LNC actually revives sections of the 1994-2004 political era, for example Project Archimedes, it is worthwhile to consider how that turned out last time. The last paragraph of today’s entry may sound particularly familiar to those aware of the current day situations: Funding…
As readers will be aware, the full Strategists, Inc. report to the LNC appears at https://theseditionpapers.substack.com/p/full-lnc-report-from-strategists Mike Shaner went to the work of getting the report up on his substack site. We will respect his work by referring you to there rather than posting it in full here, at least before the LNC has met on it. We will, however,…