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Kymus5 karma

Hi Nick, thank you for taking the time to do this.

Over the last 8 years, Republicans have thrown around the term "Libertarian" a great deal. It appears now that moderate Republicans, far Left Democrats, and the media generally consider the Libertarian Party to be a Right-Wing conservative Republican-lite sort of group*. I have even met a few Libertarians that claim that Libertarianism is conservatism.

What can the Libertarian Party and Libertarians do to help fix this sort of image problem?

(*In my experience, more moderate Democrats aren't very familiar with the Libertarian Party and far Right Republicans insist it's just Democrat-lite, ironically)

Kymus3 karma

Purists aren't the problem. Ron Paul was pretty close to being a purist and he gained a great deal of popularity. I think the big issue is how well the candidate can communicate those purist views.

Kymus3 karma

Read a ton about the philosophy (every book published by the Mises Institute is free to download from https://mises.org/library/), and find ways to help others understand it (personal outreach, internet forums, social media, podcasts, etc.).

Those in and outside of the Libertarian Party are in need of reach; just for different reasons.