[ExI] My prediction

[John Clark]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 12:55 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> *>>> **If one of the mainstream candidates fully embraced the LP
> platform, the PL would not know what to do.*
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> *>> … they would continue to promote their own candidate and do everything
> they could think of to split the libertarian vote… John K Clark*
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> *> Those two actions are contradictory.  *
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*Oh come on Spike, get serious. *


> *> If they continue to promote their own candidate, they are unifying the
> libertarian vote.  If they split the libertarian vote, they are voting for
> a candidate other than their own. *
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*It wouldn't matter in a landslide presidential election, but we haven't
had one of those since Ronald Reagan, so now it does matter. Half of the
people with a libertarian bent who would've voted for the mainstream
candidate who had a modest libertarian inclination and a realistic
possibility of actually winning, instead voted for the Libertarian Party
candidate who never had a realistic chance of winning even one electoral
vote. And thus, thanks to the Libertarian Party, the extremely
anti-libertarian dictator wannabe guy became the most powerful man in the
world.  And that is unforgivable. *

*> One can scarcely fault the Libertarian party for promoting their own
> candidate,*
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*I don't think it's unreasonable to fault people who care more about the
Libertarian Party than they care about libertarian policies becoming
reality.*

* John K Clark   *
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