The third largest political party in the U.S. has been systematically excluded and ignored when the issue of a viable political alternative is discussed. Whether a Libertarian candidate for president is ”electable” is a moot point. The Libertarian Party could very well become the ”party of principle” now and in the coming years.
As the distinguished economist Milton Freedman has pointed out, the Socialist Party was only a ”party of principle” just a generation or two ago, yet it became the most influential political party of its time. Although only capturing 1 percent of the 1928 presidential election and only 2 percent in the 1932 election, virtually every platform of its 1928 presidential campaign has found its way into the mainstream of law and government today.
Ross Perot found a parade and jumped in front of it. The parade is the stirrings of a grassroots movement: a profound public disgust with an ever-growing and intrusive government with its legions of arrogant and
unresponsive politicians and bureaucrats.
The citizens of this country deserve better. When John Q. Public eventually realizes-with or without the assistance of the media-that government is the disease and not the cure, that`s when citizens will get better.
