Good luck to you guys. I have been working with JBrase and Dallasfan for many a good year, and it always seems like more often then not a party barrier has almost invariably seperated us, so working with an organized DR is definitely something I look forward to doing.
My main concern is that in the future the party will eventually have an internal discussion between the "left-libertarians" (social issues) and the "right-libertarians" (economic issues), with a moderate-heroism result. That would be counterproductive.
That's the reason we should insist in being radicals. Example: the two main parties are playing safe in issues like drugs, abortion, sexual identity, etc. We can get some votes from the leftists there. The same with economic issues and the rightists.
Maybe in real life, but here most of the social issues have been settled. Gay Marriage is basically legal, death penalty is banned in the Constitution, along with an ERA having been passed over a year ago. The Senate just passed the Sex Work Act, and is finishing up the Comprehensive Drug Reform Act.
I have never known the leftist party of the day to "play it safe" on any of these in this game and especially this present Labor Party would be hard pressed to be labeled, more or less undercut, as "playing it safe" when they are leading the effort for legalizing so many hard drugs and Prostitution. The right's definition of playing it safe is typically to stay away from them, primarily because that Conservative base is a whole hell of lot more Libertarian or moderate then in real life. Typically this is why libertarians end up working with Conservatives here, cause nine times out of ten the fight is on something that the two agree on against a hostile left, and the mileage to travel is very lopsided towards issues courtesy of the left's success.
