...Unless I hear very good word of mouth about a specific candidate.

I just decided "You know what? Fuck em'." to basically the whole party and will now only vote for 3rd party candidates and on measures and whatnot.

If there's a position with only people with D's and R's next to their names running for it, I'm leaving it blank.

I know I'm just one guy, and as such it won't really change anything, but it's nice to be honest with myself at least.

      • EugeneDebs [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        lol, imagine THAT confirmation hearing:

        "Senator, yes I flew with Epstein to his island, but I never went there without my wife. And yes, I stand by my constitutional (not moral) argument that the age of consent should be lowered to 16 (perhaps even 15 or 14)"

      • joshuaism [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I didn't realize there was a big enough woke libertarian contingent to nominate a woman over the age of consent like Jerkinsum. But mostly I was interested in OPs thoughts on downballot libertarians since in my neck of the woods they are more libertarians running than Greens or socialists.

        • crime [she/her, any]
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          4 years ago

          I wouldn't support ancaps except maybe for that one satanist trans woman in New Hampshire who won her primary for sheriff on a platform of "disband the police". Critical support for any like that, I guess

        • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Libertarianism tends to be a collecting pool for people who are disgruntled by the status quo. It offers the promise of a utopia where all of the evils perpetrated by the state simply disappear in a puff of smoke. "Fuck the government, maximum freedom?" Sounds like a good pitch to me.

          The problem is, people get stuck there if they don't do any further research, and it is fertile soil for right wing recruitment. I dabbled with libertarianism around 2012 after becoming disappointed with Obama. At the time, they were the loudest voices shitting on the wars and the surveillance state. It eventually became clear that the libertarian movement as a whole meant voting for right wing cranks though, so that phase was very short-lived for me.