Young Libertarians Aim to Be Players in 2014 Elections (Your Opinions Please)

From the article: Young Americans for Liberty’s political action committee – Liberty Action Fund – bills itself as a youth-driven, grass-roots machine ready to harness enthusiasm for former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and leverage it into support for constitutionally focused and libertarian-minded congressional candidates. The PAC is an offshoot of Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian youth organization with 500 chapters and more than 125,000 participants, according to the YAL website.

there synergies of beliefs, on Liberty, that can be exploited to common purpose, if “social conservatives”, “fiscal conservatives” and general big C Conservatives want to explore where, when and how they can do that - it essentially requires understanding what Liberty means to each, in the context of some policy area; they won’t always achieve total agreement; they will reach fuller understanding of each other and might, out of mutual reespect, find compromises toward common purpose they can live with

First the Libertarians would have to be small ‘l’ Libertarians (Ronald Reagan is the best example) who are not ashamed or afraid of being Social Conservatives or lacking that, would promise to work with Social Conservatives, dropping their fight against Social conservative laws like Anti-Abortion laws and fighting the Gay Agenda, Conversely, the Social Conservatives would have to work for the Limited Government that Libertarians desire. Most already do, desiring less government in most if not all areas of their lives.

If that sort of compromise can be achieved, this collaborative movement or approach will work, if it cannot be achieved, expect more infighting that does nobody any good.

Totally agree however in my experience in trying to find common ground with libertarians in which to work together I don't see it happening. I was told that it would have to be me and other like minded conservatives who would have to compromise some key issues of our Christian beliefs and I decided that would make me no better than them or even libtards for that matter. So, no just like the libertarians I've worked with I don't see it happening in reality, at least not in this election cycle.

“I’d rather Libertarians than Democrats or RINOs.”

I do not want ANY of the three to hold office. Liberal Democrats and RINO Republicans (usually also liberal) are and obvious evil. Libertarians are basically, IMO, just anarchists and isolationists....both dangerous ways to think.

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