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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 5 Aug \ parent \ on: Kamala Harris chickens out ahead of TV duel with Donald Trump news
The fact that you can not think of one already says a lot. That's the representativity crisis we faced for a long and agonizing time prior to Milei. When Milei appeared we where able to call ourselves "libertarians". But prior to that the term was unusable, not only because of an Overton Window way far to the left, but also because the political development state of existing libertarian parties was shameful. It was so full of jerks and wannabees that you had to have a strong stomach to survive the first years. At first it was impossible to defend, even if the conviction in the ideas was absolute, the lack of leadership, and even more, the over-abundance of mediocre wannabee clowns trying to seize the moment, made the self-called "libertarian" political space so unreliable, that from the 3 (three!!!) self-called "libertarian" parties already in existence none was admitted into the coalition that made Milei president. So dire the situation was.
I'm fairly well acquainted with the state of the "Libertarian Party" of the USA and, Jo Jorgensen aside, it's as lame as the original "Libertarian Party" here (which was, and is, so terribly bad that Milei refused to be associated with them, having to form an entire new separate party from scratch, "La Libertad Avanza").
So, what word to use is an important and key challenge. It ought to be "libertarian", but there's a lot of underpinning to do to make that work.
These so-called “progressives” or “liberals” are not advocates of progress or liberty: they are enemies of them, and the sooner champions of liberty acknowledge what they are, the better our slim chances for defeating them will be. Libertarians and conservatives are inclined toward civil discourse and respect for the rule of law. They must come to terms with the fact that their enemies—not opponents—are implacable, bent on winning whatever the cost may be, willing to use any means whatsoever to prevail and, once triumphant, to deprive their opposition of the means to reverse or even impede the implementation of their agenda.
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The name of a coalition will be solved in a later stage, that will be no issue. The issue right now is that you only have conservatives, not libertarians. Focus on building libertarianism, then the coalition will be a natural result, at least in the last minute. That's what happened to Milei: conservatives repelled him and attacked him relentlessly as he gained recognition, and a unified coalition was impossible, up to the latest stage of the election when conservatives, already out of the race, directed their voters to vote for Milei. Concentrate on your own space, the rest will fall in place.
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