[835] in libertarians
Re: More from Browne
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Rose)
Mon Mar 20 22:19:30 1995
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 22:18:42 +0001 (EST)
From: Derek Rose <rosed@world.std.com>
To: Kevin THEOBALD <theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca>
Cc: Raymie Stata <raymie@larch.lcs.mit.edu>, libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9503210304.AA22633@duke.cs.mcgill.ca>
> |
> | Not at all. And I would say the Libertarian Party has no chance to do
> | either, at least not in this lifetime. But do you wish to dispute my
> | claim that since the November elections, there has been a sizeable shift
> | in the debate toward less government and more freedom?
>
> No, what I am saying is that you agree with his premise that "winning" and
> "changing the debate" are "mutually exclusive." If there has been this
> sizeable shift in the debate, it is more due to the Cato Institute
> (libertarians who have concentrated on "changing the debate") than to the
> LP (libertarians who have concentrated on "winning").
>
No, I completely disagree with his premise. The debate has shifted more
to the right--more towards freedom--in the past five months than it has in
the past twenty years, and it is all because of the GOP landslide. They
won, and they changed the debate dramatically.
I submit that a) this landslide was not really caused by Cato or other
libertarian organizations, but more because of the more mundane factors
I outlined previously, and b) because of the GOP landslide, the debate
has shifted dramatically. Cato got more mention in the press in the
month following the GOP landslide than it did in all of the 11 previous
months, or something like that.
How can I be any more clear?
