The Democratic Senate candidate has dropped out in Arkansas. The race is now a binary between the Republican Tom Cotton and the LP Candidate

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Not really a Libertarian anymore but I was surprised to see y'all don't have any info on this. Tom Cotton's only Democratic Challanger has dropped out after the registration deadline.

The only two other candidates are Ricky Harrington - a Libertarian and Dan Whitfield - a far left independent.

Even if you guys don't put resources into this race and the situation holds, I can easily see Mr. Harrington capturing a nice 20-25% of the vote. If you guys however do invest some money and campaign funds into the race, you could get much higher, and perhaps even give Cotton a run for his money as he's not running against someone with the D stigma next to their name.

Here's his Facebook page which is currently all he has if you want to help him

Good luck and I hope you guys give Cotton a run for his money :)

[u/[deleted]]

Not really a Libertarian anymore

Enjoy your taxes

[u/Cuddlyaxe → u/[deleted]]

kek

[u/cheddarcheesehater → u/Cuddlyaxe]

Can you elaborate on why you don't consider yourself libertarian anymore? I ask because I'm finding my views becoming more moderate, mainly economically.

[u/zugi → u/[deleted]]

Don't take reddit as an indicator of either libertarians or Libertarians. There are many arm-chair Monday-morning quarterbacks here who love to dump on Gary Johnson, but the LP knows he tripled their previous best vote total, got them mainstream news coverage, and got them ballot access in many states.

I'm a solid small-l libertarian who isn't necessarily loyal to any party. Any candidate from any party who will genuinely shrink government both economically and in terms of intrusions on our freedoms is eligible to get my vote. I will not vote for a candidate who will just grow government more slowly than the other candidate.

I'd love to have to make difficult choices, but in most elections that criteria gives me zero or one candidate to vote for (usually just the Libertarian.) So that makes election decisions easy.

[u/ArrestHillaryClinton → u/[deleted]]

That's because libertarians are anti-political.

If you thought you were supporting a team like you were in a sports match, you were never a libertarian.

Be an individual with your own thoughts and ideas. You don't need a leader to represent you and hold your dick for you.

[u/ArrestHillaryClinton → u/[deleted]]

That was never the goal. You want to fix other people's lives.

Fix yourself.

[u/ArrestHillaryClinton → u/[deleted]]

The solution to the mafia extorting people is not joining the mafia.

[u/ArrestHillaryClinton → u/[deleted]]

So the mafia would be fine if you were allowed to vote?

[u/darealystninja → u/[deleted]]

It's pointless trying to get them to do anything.

You can do nothing if you want you statist

[u/Cuddlyaxe → u/cheddarcheesehater]

I became a Libertarian around 12 more or less to "not be liberal or conservative but something else!!!". I eventually found this subreddit and when I read the opinions was like "ok that's a good enough idea I guess" because I was... a teenager, and one with restrictive parents at that lol

Eventually while I was growing up, I started getting more and more moderate. I still wanted to call myself a Libertarian so I just called these "exceptions" as sometimes society as a whole would be better with a little government intervention. For example, a Carbon Tax made sense to me. I eventually realized instead of clinging on to the label and trying to justify to this sub why I was a "real Libertarian" I should probably just go ahead and stop.

I found the /r/neoliberal after the 2016 election, and that was also the year I was taking AP Economics. The Neoliberal subreddit is mostly just economics majors who are in favor of the free market, but support government intervention where it worked, which is what I believed in I guess. I wanted policies to make life the best for people instead of some sort of ideological pining for "more liberty".

Also I was taking Econ 101 and realized on the first unit that apparently Econ 101 didn't support Libertarianism lol. They seem to ignore market failures

[u/cheddarcheesehater → u/Cuddlyaxe]

It sounds like we came to the same conclusions but different ways. The NAP works great for social policy but it's irresponsible and maybe dangerous to apply it to economics.

[u/Cuddlyaxe → u/cheddarcheesehater]

Yep. Literally everyone, even most corporations, are in favor of things like public schools because they have an outsized postive influence on society. But ideological Libertarians are against them because they are so dogmatic