[796] in libertarians
comment -- Join the cause...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bromden@riva.com)
Fri Mar 3 19:43:05 1995
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 1995 00:42:01 GMT
From: bromden@riva.com
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
I want to join the cause. I am an eighteen year old and
going to school next fall as a journalism major, and political
science minor. You have the support of my pen and me.
Also, I would like to make a few suggestions for gaining a
larger youth vote. I personaly see libertarianism as a pro-
individual thing as oposed to an anti-govt. thing. Todays
youth couldn't give two shits about how large goverment is,
they do pride themselves on being indviduals though. If you
started a campaign (nation wide) about being an individual
(and also push the legaize pit stance quietly) you would get
a massive turnout of a group that has never voted before.
We could catch the political world unaware with this group.
They are just waiting to be led to the voting booths, but
don't know who they want to led by (they also don't care by
who). If we could get them, without the other big parties
realizing the power of the youth vote, we could sneak more
than a few senate seats, which would be a big step. Clinton
tried to do it in '92, but went about it the wrong way. I
don't think that youths want leftist policies, but want to be
left alone--the libertarian party can do that for them, they
just don't know it yet.
I fear I have rambled ...oh well, maybe you should forget
all that, but you can count on my vote every time it can be
used.
Thank You,
Mark B. Smith
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