The Sink Loss in Florida Tells Us One Thing

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28. Young people need more guidance to help them know libertarians are NOT their party!

Even though libertarians are strong on good issues like legalization of marijuana, ending war spending, and getting rid of domestic spying, all of which I share libertarian's approach on, they need to understand the total picture of what libertarians want and how it's going to screw them in areas like funding for education, etc. that they are still getting screwed on. They also need to understand that until we get something like instant runoff voting in place, even if we have a party like the greens, that even people like me support perhaps moreso at times than what a democratic party would offer in a given election, that third parties are made out to be spoilers to allow Republicans to win without instant runoff voting in place. If young people feel that neither major party are addressing their concerns, which there is a very good case to be made in many instances, that this that much more of a reason for them to make a big issue they push to tell the major parties that newer generations want instant runoff voting to be in place, and that this is the coming majority view of America as the voting populace ages and adds more young people and loses older people. It sounds like in this one election there was a lot of libertarian party support that might have been had by the Democrats if instant runoff voting were in place, much like Gore might have won Florida in 2008 if it had been in place there then too.