We've got our own neos now...

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If you can't even take over the party closer to your views, you're never going to take over the country.

The Libertarians should follow the Ron Paul model and run candidates for the Republican nomination.

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If you can't even take over the party closer to your views, you're never going to take over the country.

If you are suggesting that not all Libertarians see thing the same way I would say the Libertarians are probably much more united on most issues than the Republicans or Democrats. I would also suggest that not all Republicans agree with you.

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Who said we aren't doing that too?

I'm saying third parties are useless in our plurality voting system. If you can't convince the major party closer to your views that you're right, you're never going to convince the country as a whole that you're right.

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at this point our party's really just an interest group, but it's big enough to have some amount of persuasion.  Ya gotta remember, revolutions* don't happen over night.  It's a matter of persuading the general populace that liberty it's always the better choice to government.  The problem, I fear is that the way things are headed, the LP is not progressing fast enough, and won't fully blossom as a major force before the United States become prison states.

*I say revolution, I mean political and not violent.

The general populace is not anarcho-capitalist. Radical libertarianism will never be mainstream.

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Actually, the top income tax rate fell from 70% to 28% in just 5 years.

True, the 101st Congress did join forces with George H.W. Bush to raise taxes, but not to anywhere near 70%. A new tax bracket of 31% was created (when Reagan left office, there had been only two income tax brackets - 15% and 28%). Clinton later signed another tax hike into law, creating 36% and 39.6% rates.