In California alone, little more than half of a percent of those eligible to vote are registered Libertarians (Google CAs Secretary of State and you can find the Excel spreadsheet to download that testifies so). It's not really changed over the decades. Really, 'nuff said about the "chances" of the LP ever being a player.
The LP has experienced
steady and
significant growth since it's inception in 1971.
Fact Prove me otherwise.
As to your oppositional defiance about women, your tendency to see non-libertarian women as "weak and dependent" is your own issue. So don't go wiping your sh!t onto me.
Wow, talk about deflecting from your misogynist BS. Peg women as dependent, weak voters and then accuse me of saying as such. Your intellectual dishonesty knows no bounds...
With regard to you being a woman and me being a man, that, in your opinion makes me "unqualified" to speak statistically on women, is, of course, pure nonsense. If you truly knew what appeals more to women and what doesn't you'd think twice about saying that the LP appeals to women as much as it does to men, as that's pure and common knowlege BS.
It's not "pure nonsense." You, a man, are attempting to tell a woman how women think. The epitome of ignorance. Stop pretending like you know how we think, what we want, and what we look for in a political party. Because you have no ****ing clue and it shows.
Your assumption that "pro-life" is male and "pro-choice" is female is, of course, preposterous, strongly indicating that you are out of touch with mainstream women.
Poll: More voters, women are turning pro-choice | WashingtonExaminer.com
You see, unlike you, I can back up the claims I make.
The LP has simply not grown "immensely". That's laughable.
The Libertarian Party grew from 4 angry voters in a basement to garnering over a million votes on a national level and having candidates represent us on nationally televised debates. i'd say that's immense growth, wouldn't you say?
The libertarian philosophy is simply an extremist wing philosophy, a schizoid simultaneous left (social) and right (fiscal-economic) plotting on the traditional political spectrum. That's so absurdly extreme that libertarians had to invent their own spectrum ("the political compass") to spin legitimacy.
You literally just admitted we're a centrist party. Tell us how we don't fit again? The political compass was not created by the LP to place itself on a political chart. It was created because one axis was not enough for many voters that hold views outside conventional thought. For example...social conservatives that are socialist. Or economically right social liberals. One axis isn't enough to accurately pin down the views of many people. Hence why alternative charts are pretty popular among those involved in politics outside of the election year(political nerds, so to speak). You can get a decent guess with left/right, but overall charts with with a Y and X axis are more accurate. Has nothing to do with extremism but rather simplicitly.
Sadly, the census does not track specific party affiliation, and state secretaries don't track party affiliation by gender or age, so neither you nor I can prove our assertions about the percentage of women who are members of the Libertarian Party.
Oh, how convienient. Make a grandiose claim that you can't back up. :roll:
But I've done sample polling with women I've known who would seem to identify with libertarianism, and none of them were registered with the Libertarian Party. I think my "less than 10% of registered Libertarians are women" statement is likely true.
Oh, you've done "sample polling." Is that right? :lamo
The Libertarian Party appeals to young, white, single, childless male perspectives on life; the playboy philosophy. That's simply a fact. The reason the Libertarian Party will never be a player is because the young get older and mature, single people get married and love changes perspectives, they then have children, and boy will that change a person's attitude quickly.
You are so full of ****. Some of the most influential libertarian thinkers were, in fact, old. The LP attracts alot of young voters but that is true of any party not stuck in the stone age on social issues. Democrats amd Greens also have a significant youth base. Even the GOP, as it becomes more moderate/libertarian, is also starting to see an increase on popularity among youth. That is until they put up Ken Cuccinelli types that want to make sodomy a felony. That doesn't really help.
We also have a great deal of older men and women as well. In fact, despite our strong youth base, I'd still say most Libertarians are high up there in age. Just look at our candidates. You can't even run for President until you're 35 and we've put up a candidate every year since 1972.
So the Libertarian Party is simply a transition party, which accounts for why today it simply isn't any more or less of a non-player political party than it ever was.
Every party not Republican or Democrat is a "non-player" by your standards. That is because we have a two party system. As far as third parties go, the LP is the biggest and most influential. That is a fact. We came in 3rd place in 2012, have had several candidates represent us in nationally televised debate, have candidates running all over the country, and have a great deal of name recognition these days. That's pretty big for a third party.
60 percent of women, according to Keirsey ("Please Understand Me II") are feelers over thinkers, with men the opposite 60 percent thinkers. This is the only temperament component of the four that shows a gender preference.
So now you are claiming that women disfavor the LP because they are not thinkers.....
Thus women are more apt to be communalists, and would find a "Justicerian" political party appealing.
Meh. Not really.
For a woman to identify with the playboy philosophy is .. noteworthy.
:yawn:
Call the previous national chairman of the whole damn party a "trailblazer" then....
And all the female candidates that ran this year.
And all the female libertarians on this board.
And the first female VP candidate to ever get an electoral vote.
And, and, and, and.....
The "reality" you couldn't statistically back up any part of. :coffeepap