Libertarian Party President Campaign
Kyle321n
Hello Libertarians,
Today I address you as a former Libertarian who has seen the problems that the party has had with its activity. Since I joined in October, the party forums have been fairly dead, and the IRC has been a ghost town. I tried to infuse it during the November congressional elections, but after I saw that I was the only one using the forums regularly, I decided it was time for me to join two partners and start a new party, The Nationalist Party.
I am announcing today a radical plan that could forever change the American Political scene, I am running for the Libertarian Party Presidency.
When Emerick announced he was leaving the country, I immediately thought of how I could jump start the Libertarians and get some energy back into the party. I would like to become your president and then merge my party with yours. This would include moving the Nationalist Party to the Libertarians; proposing there be a name change to reflect both parties; moving the party's forums to the Nationalist Party's forums; and utilizing one of the most active channels on IRC, the NP's channel.
Why should you vote for this change?
I give to you the Nationalist Party's Manifesto found here. I believe the Nationalist Ideas are very similar to the LiBs. Also I would ask you help rework our Manifesto to show some more of a Libertarian view, while maintaining our Nationalist views, not to mention the great activity leap that we should get.
What makes me qualified to run the Party?
Well, I feel that I am qualified since I'm a founding member of the Nationalist Party. I've also served in Congress and have been the Vice-President of the NP for 2 terms now. I've also served as the head of Recruitment for the Nationalist Party, I've been a platoon leader, executive officer, commanding officer in the National Guard, and I'm the current Quartermaster General. All of this shows that I've been a leader, and have leadership experience.
While I was with the Libertarian Party I ran for congress, and won the elections in November. I was vocal during the elections against the USWP and in major support of every LiB member that was running. There was never a question of my allegiance to the LiBs, and even today I support the LiB agenda while I am a Nationalist Party Member. I am still in contact with a few Libs, and even though I haven't been in congress this term I've been active within the halls of congress.
I've learned a lot since starting the Nationalists and I want to bring this knowledge to the LiBs. We've made great strides in the Nationalist Party and the ability to keep activity high and constant is one of our cornerstones. We've also been able to build partnerships with other parties like the Federalist and Green Party, to help grow them and ourselves. I would work to build further relationships, to expand our membership and our congressional power. If elected I'd also work to get a new manifesto set up so the LiBs do not feel as if they are being succumbed to only Nationalist beliefs. As I've said I still hold the LiBs beliefs, and try to instill them in all of my decisions. I want a more Libertarian view to come from the Nationalist Party and with your help we can do this.
If you wish to read what my other plans are for the party then you can read my last article. Nothing from there has changed, and it won't.
So on January 15th ask yourself, who brings the most to the LiBs? I know I bring the promise of more activity, more members, and a much higher win percentage. I ask you to vote for activity, vote for sexy and vote for Kyle321N.
PS: If you are against the name change but for all of these ideas, please still vote for me. My plan is not to completely eliminate the LiBs and bring the Nationalist over, but to hold an open vote in the forums to see what this new coalition's name will be. I'd like to see both the Nationalist name and the Libertarian name in the title.
Comments
Personally, I believe the Nationalists are better off allied with the Conservatives. I will be voting for Publius, because I believe he is a true libertarian.
I'm dropping out and endorsing the Kyle, I supported such an idea before. On top of that, I want to help fight for Russia.
I really don't support this idea. No offense to you personally, but I can't vote for you if that is what you plan on doing.
woot sounds like a plan
It's like losing our party (not changing party's name completely), we'll support true Libertarians only, some leader should rise and take our party to the White eHouse, maybe I will, in the future,who knows!!!
i'm sorry but i can't vote for you because well i just don't feel like we need a non lib president
Good luck kyle!!
@ Hiispe2, I agree
I say yes.
@Tyrsis, nice points as always, I agree
True Libertarians No Nationalists for ever!
I strongly disagree with the NP platform. Those who do agree with it should promptly join the NP. Jingoistic war mongering does not square with my concept of Libertarian. It is classic Nationalism as the party name says.
I will resist any attempt by the NP to absorb the Libertarian party.
I am in favor of this change.
These comments make me lulz. "Jingoistic war mongerers" Kyle is not me. He's not a fascist right-wing nutjob.
but, we all believe what we want to believe, and what our parents tell us to believe 😉
Thanks Will, but I don't see where it says that we're war mongers... Here's a quote from our current manifesto: Section A: Foreign Policy
Article I: War
The Military of the United States shall be the greatest force in the world. We believe that if you work against the military, you work against America. We fully support all troops in war, unless we feel the war is for a bad cause, such as invading an innocent nation. However, we support the idea of conquering regions of enemy nations if the nation has made actions against the US or her allies.
Please show me where it says we are urging or attempting to stir up war....
Followed the link in your article above to the Wiki:
" The ideals of the Nationalist Party
The Nationalist Party follows a Pro-War (Pro-Rawr) policy. We accept no zombies or Robots. We seek to abolish zombies and robots from this great nation, as zombies and robots aren't real Americans. The NP is a right-wing party, and believes America is the greatest nation on Earth "
Hurling: Wiki is a terrible source of information. If you went off of wiki, than the UCP is an ultra-liberal libertarian group (which it is far from it, some of our most active conservatives are from UCP, as are some of our most active liberals). I believe that the NP article on wiki was an edit of the originally planned Ramrod Party which was quickly changed from a "lulz group" to a more professional and thoroughly planned party.
In conclusion: I support your bid for election, Kyle. I cannot pledge my vote until I see Justin's administration play out, though.
Yes, we aren't anti-war, but we're not trying to get the US into wars. No where does it say we should start meaningless wars. I'm against wars just to war. I know from my position in the military that we can't be in a perpetual state of war.
As for our anti-zombie and robot policy, we are against inactivity and straight party voting, just to vote for your party. We want people to support their party's candidate, but if you want vote for whoever you want.
Jewitt: You nailed it. We have a serious need of wiki updating, and I have said this before on our forums.
Good Luck.
I read this, though, and see a good move for the NP but not too much in it for Libs..
Angrr:
- Activity boost
* Not dead forums
* Most active IRC
- Probably up to #3 party (world)
- Media
- More potential Congressman
That's my list of Lib +'s.
I like your plan kyle. I knew the Nationalist would beat us Greens and the federalist to the top 5. Without Emerick I expected the Libs to lose alot of their political power but with you there is a new star in the sky for the Libs.
I don't support this plan at all.
I'm running for Libertarian Party President as a Libertarian.
My friends of the Libertarian Party: We do not plan on taking you over at all. In the Nationalist Party, we have decided that if Kyle does come to power, all changes will be put to a vote for every single member of the party.
The Libertarian Party, like the Nationalist Party, has been a very active and loud voice against the far-left beliefs of the United States Workers Party. Though our parties disagree on some issues, we will allow talks.
We will not only consider rewriting our manifesto, but we will encourage it so it matches the beliefs of both parties without going against the beliefs of either one.
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Nice unrelated article.
The conservative pep talk is all fine, there are no ideological problems there except for the slight hint that non-reactive force is acceptable. You should have known Libertarians would get their panties in a wad over that, but that isn't what bothers me.
My problem is this sentence: "The ultimate goal of government should be to help the people and ensure their economic success, as well as safety."
Help the people? Ensure economic success? These are totally improper functions of government. Government should exist only to protect citizens from foreign invaders, and protect the inalienable rights of each citizen through domestic police forces. Anything more than that and you are not a libertarian. Choosing to name your party "Nationalist" is also a big mistake. Typically nationalists are dogmatic thugs (See Nationalsozialismus.) who will not accept any criticism of their state, and who forget that the harshest criticism and skepticism should come from their own mouths. They pervert the meaning of patriotism into boisterous posturing on the playground of the world. Government is a wildcat that needs always to be caged, and yet your brand of conservatism parades it around like a school mascot.
From that one statement, your party seems to be quite similar to the current US Republicans: big government socialists in conservative's clothing.
Maybe you would like to re-write much of that, but the overall tone of the wiki article gives the same impression as this quote.
@Jewitt: xD @ saying that UCP as political beliefs
Oh Kyle, I know you want to get the NP into Top 5 real bad, but this is tottttttally cheating! If we had a bet, I wouldn't pay out.
Free guns 4eva!
This brings another glaring issue with Erepublik to the forefront. The admins really need to work on this thing.
sign us up for jackrungh's comments
don't overwork yourself and make sure you'll be able to put time into the party.
Also, you left the party and are now running for Party President. in both cases you are deserting one party or another whether it be the LiBs or the NP. It's a bold move and I wish you luck, but I've seen in the past how party mergers aren't always as successful as you'd like them to be.
this will prove to be very interesting and I wish you luck. It sure takes the fire away from under the UCP and the AAP's butt not having to worry about the NP getting into the top 5 anymore.
Oh, you're not flooding the Libs with NP loyalists? Sheesh, I thought you'd be smart with this infiltration!
Proggy, I'm smart but I'm fair. I refuse to win this election by resorting to USWP tactics. I do not condone flooding a party to create a hostile take over. This is a friendly merging request, and if passed will be done seamlessly. No LiB congressman will be asked to give up their seat for a NP member, and I will not discriminate against LiB members in favor or NP members.
Kyle I expect your Wiki page expresses a tone that you did not intend. I mentioned Nazis as the potential result of a populist movement, a definite possibility wherever caring for men surpasses caring for law. Enthusiastic "patriotism" and these notions about building something together encourage such a movement. You have respect for individuality, stick with that. Your viewpoint seems to be very similar to small government conservatives in the US, and that is fine to a certain extent. If I were gay I would rather keep my whole paycheck than have the ability to marry my partner. That is to say, as a libertarian, I would choose the conservatives over the liberals, even though both sides are half right and half wrong.
Away from ideology and towards issues, I agree that the military needs to be well funded, but for no offensive purpose. The only moral justification for force is in response to force, in defense. With regard to the second issue: Income taxation is unjust no matter who it is levied against. It is regressive, it discourages expansion and success, and it should be fought. That the Admin's only conception of a sales tax is the tyrannical European VAT is unfortunate, so I will lobby for that change instead of yelling at the wind, but "tax breaks to businesses" is a misnomer. I am a fervent supporter of the FairTax movement (http://www.fairtax.org) in RL, and I would love to see a similar movement in eRep pending some game changes.
Businesses do not pay taxes, they merely collect them. Whatever they are taxed goes right into the price of their good/service to compensate for the lost revenue. That's good business, but this is dirty politics, as it hides the amount of taxation that in the end rests on the consumer's shoulders. So tax breaks to businesses, of course, most definitely, businesses should not be a valid taxable entity, since no business is a citizen. This is a half-step of course, taxes for business need to be abolished.
Yeah, he even got the support of Time!😛
For those of you who don't get that, when Time lost PP elections he ended up throwing a hissy-fit and switched the the UCP. Total a-hole
Now Kyle, when did the USWP ever take over a party in a hostile way? As far as I'm aware, the USWP is the only USWP...
I think the NP ideals are far more conservative than Libertarian ideals. I'm not sure how well the two parties match up. But hey, if the Libs elect you, all is fair.
I'm just saying, I'm not sure the NP is a Libertarian party.
Me thinks Kyle didn't catch my sarcasm/irony.
You should've learned.
Proggy is a sarcastically minded person.