RE: The vanishing voter,media & politics

[Paul Tiger]

Finally I am replying to address this actual subject. And from my last post about accosting children, you can sort of see where I am going. I think that planting the seed in young minds before they get to vote will be the difference. I think that the public school system has shown how it educates on the topic of civics. The lessons are there, but it is so dry that does not attract. Civics is required, supposedly to make good citizens, but what has been happening is quite the opposite. Now we have disenchanted sheep.   From my time campaigning I have come to know the value of recognizing the lost cause.  I truly believe that trying to converting registered voters to the LP is the mother of all lost causes. I don’t think that it is wrong to educate them, but I don’t want to focus energy on them. The worst candidate for a convert is someone who comes from a family of all that party or may be the other party. They are what they are and they don’t like change. You gotta make ‘em want liberty.   I think that the two focal points that I would have is students and immigrants as new Libertarians. These are the people that are closest to the being the best citizens. Both because they are learning how and want liberty. AND THEY HAVEN’T VOTED YET.   The bottom line is that I personally feel that it is a waste of my time to draw people into this party from where they are comfortable. If they like being non-participants, unaffiliated, or with those other guys, let ‘em. If they are interested in changing their scope, then let’s have materials for them to read and be open to conversations. But otherwise – screw ‘em.   Paul Tiger