For LPIN Weekly Podcast #19, I took a different approach, reaching outside the roster of Libertarian Party leaders and recent candidates to Doug Masson, a Lafayette blogger and lawyer who has common ground with libertarians, especially on civil liberty issues, but is not a partisan Libertarian.
Several things occurred to me in leading me to ask Doug to sit down at the microphone.
1. One strategy employed by the Libertarian Party has been to court disaffected supporters of the party with majority power. For several years, it was a courtship of disaffected fiscal conservatives, as Republicans delivered smaller government rhetoric alongside exponentially growing budgets and bureaucracies. As power has shifted to Democrats, we are quickly seeing the delivery of pro-civil liberties rhetoric met with restrictive policy by the Obama Administration.
2. When you only talk amongst those who completely agree, the tendency to develop blind spots grows. I wanted to hear from someone outside the partisan-Ls in what ways the Libertarian Party is missing the opportunity to draw from the Left.
3. Doug's blog, Masson's Blog, is really excellent. It is the one on the Left that I read daily, without fail.
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Many thanks to Doug for taking the time to sit down with me for this interview.
1 comment:
"I'll vote for the person."
"The Democrats could have put up a bag of hammers and I would have voted for that"
It's good to know he considers a bag of hammers a better person than Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, or John McCain.
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