New alliance?
A lot of Libertarians wondering should they shift their support to the Democratic party and replace the alliance with the conservative movement with a new alliance, this time with the Liberals. Accepting the reality that small government is only an ideal that cannot be achieved the Libertarian should form alliance with the party that will create the least damage and that will limit the growth of government and its intrusion on individual freedom.
Theoretically this is not a bad idea for Libertarian to become a swing power between the two parties and effect the national agenda by forming ad-hoc alliances with candidates that will commit to preserve individual freedom. However Libertarian voters have to be vigilant and make sure they are not being fooled to support a party, instead of specific candidates. Supporting someone a party my imply support to a candidate that still promote socialistic agenda of nationalize health care and other measures, under the slogan ” It takes a village…”. It is not different than supporting a party which choose as its candidate a compassionate conservative.
At the end of the day Libertarian should choose the better candidate not the lesser evil. And if both parties cannot nominate one that is a better Libertarian candidate there is always a third option.
Technorati Tags: Libertarianism - Swing votes - Clinton - Bush - Compassionate Conservatism
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On serious note, the CI measure suggested in the post you provided is a very good measure to examine how much our representative are devoted to protect our liberties. It is crossing the parties lines, as both parties are devoted for their own political power and not for the protection of the constitution.
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There is an ancient haiku I love that says:
Four gates
Under one moon
Four temples
It's the one moon part that impresses me. We're all, most of us, after the same thing. We all love our freedom. I'm the last person in the world the I would have thought would read a JB publication and while it hasn't changed my party affiliation it has made me more open to being cooperative with the right.
Cheers.
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Not surprisingly the article differentiates between traditional and so called "Neo" conservatives which for the index is an important distinction. Bush-era conservatives tend to be big government and anti-privacy and it may be largely on these and similar points where the tables seem to be turning.
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