<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Sep 9, 2019, at 4:35 PM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 7:20 PM <</span><a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">spike@rainier66.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">> wrote:</span><br></div></div></span><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>there are enough voters in California the libertarians could make a really strong showing</i></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I'm a libertarian (small l) but after the Libertarian Party's disgraceful performance in 2016 and the 4 years of anti-libertarian policies that resulted it boggles my mind that anyone would even consider making the same mistake again in 2020. </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>I’m not a LP supporter, but had you not voted for the LP in 2016 (presuming you did; for you?), would that have changed anything? I mean aside from feeling smug about it, what else would’ve changed California’s 55 electoral votes went to Clinton and she won those by a large margin, so your vote wouldn’t have been decisive. Heck, even if you persuaded Spike and every other Extropian in California through your scolding, it probably would’ve had no impact on which way those electoral votes went and I bet even political analysts would hardly notice the shift in votes due to your efforts.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>