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   Nicholas Sarwark (nsarwark@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 00:22:40 JST Nicholas Sarwark

   “The connection between libertarianism and race dates back to 1964. After he had the Republican presidential nomination, Barry Goldwater (himself no racist) voted against the Civil Rights Act on libertarian grounds: In a speech co-authored by future Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, he said that “the freedom to associate means the same thing as the freedom not to associate.” In so doing, he transformed the Republican coalition. Eisenhower had gotten about 40 percent of the Black vote in 1956; Nixon in 1960, about a third; Goldwater, 6 percent. Goldwater was the first Republican ever to win in Georgia and the first since Reconstruction to carry Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina. Richard Nixon’s eagerness to woo the voters who had supported George Wallace in 1968 consolidated the racial polarization of American politics.”

   https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/3680007-the-libertarian-party-is-collapsing-heres-why/

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 00:44:47 JST fu

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     @nsarwark if I didn't know better I'd think it was organized to destroy us so that we couldn't take over as the second party as the GOP implodes. But I've been around long enough to know that we aren't as important as we think we are, and "government opperatives" dont' need any help, we'll destroy ourselves.

     Still to quote my own resolution at the 2023 LPM convention "While we have no reason to believe the Mises Cacus are government sabatures, we're not sure what they'd be doing different if they where"

     I already paid for my room in DC, so I'll be there regardless. I was surprised I was elected as a delegate this year, having been blocked in '20 & '22, but my entire delegation is being challenged because the mi-cauc can't stand to lose to the majority.

     You going to be there, or have you washed your hands of the Party?

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     Nicholas Sarwark (nsarwark@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 00:28:34 JST Nicholas Sarwark

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     @fu @nsarwark if I’m not speaking at an event out of the country, I’ll be in DC.

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 11:19:48 JST fu

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     @nsarwark looking forward to seeing you again my friend.