<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><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"><div class="msg8693119239328069296"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_8693119239328069296WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span class="m_8693119239328069296gmaildefault" style="font-size:0.875rem;background-color:transparent"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span> </span></i></span><i style="font-size:0.875rem;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Evidence please?<br></span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <br></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…You're asking me?! You're the one, </span></b><span class="m_8693119239328069296gmaildefault"><b><u><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">NOT ME</span></u></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">, who referred to "</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">the mainstream opposition party</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">"</span></b><span class="m_8693119239328069296gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> Give me one speck of evidence that the Libertarian party fits that description</span></b><span class="m_8693119239328069296gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.</span></b></span></blockquote><div><div style="margin-top:6pt;font-size:0.875rem;overflow-x:hidden" id="m_8693119239328069296gmail-:vw"><div id="m_8693119239328069296gmail-:vx"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8693119239328069296gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8693119239328069296gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>John, Libertarians voted against Harris because Biden snubbed them at the convention. </i></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I'm not certain what incident you're referring to but it doesn't really matter because if big L Libertarians were so petty as to allow free trade to be destroyed and <span class="gmail_default" style="">were willing to </span>betray one of the key small l libertarian principles just because Harris was once rude to them<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> then they are not people who should be taken seriously. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If the Many World's interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct then there is a universe where the Libertarian Party really is the mainstream opposition party, or at least an opposition party. In that universe the Libertarian Party would do everything in its power, including endorsing the Democratic candidate, to ensure that a rabid opponent of free trade and capitalism didn't become president. But unfortunately that is NOT the universe I'm living in. Why not? Because despite its name the Libertarian Party is full of people who are not libertarians, and rather than actively oppose the most anti-libertarian president in American history they defend him at every opportunity.</b></font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8693119239328069296"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_869311923932806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