The Indiana House Elections & Apportionment Committee passed HB 1134 on a party-line vote on January 26. It imposes a petition requirement on the nominees of ballot-qualified parties that nominate by convention. If the bill passed, their statewide nominees for Governor and U.S. Senator would need 4,500 signatures, with 500 signatures from each U.S. House district, even though they were nominated by a ballot-qualified party. The only ballot-qualified party in Indiana that nominates by convention is the Libertarian Party.
However, Representative Curt Nisly (R-Milford) then proposed an amendment to the bill, providing that ballot-qualified parties that nominate by convention should be represented on the State Election Board, and all county election boards. Currently only parties that qualify for a primary have members on the election boards. This amendment exposes the hypocrisy of the bill’s sponsors, who claim they are only proposing petition requirements for convention nominees because they want all parties to be treated alike. The bill’s sponsors do not favor having Libertarians on the election boards, so they have not yet advanced their bill to the House floor.
We need conservative and right wing voters of all sorts including libertarians to unite as Republicans, defeat the rhinos in the GOP and defeat the leftist socialist democrats.
Libertarians aren’t right-wing, we’re no allies to social conservatives. We’re liberal capitalists. We have far more in common with social democrats (the mainline of the Democratic Party) than we ever will with the nationalists and Christian democrats that make up GOP. I’d join the Democratic Party long before the Republican Party and I find everybody in the Democratic Party to be an absolute disgrace (just think about how I feel about the GOP). Hate to break it to you but mainline democrats are NOT socialist, they’re not leftists and they’re not liberal. They socially moderate center-right egalitarians. Are they left of the GOP? Yes, but barely. The average American has such a narrow view of political ideologies it’s pathetic.
Go look at politicalcompass . org and look at the most recent presidential elections page.
PS Rand Paul is not a libertarian; the closest is Thomas Massie and he’s effectively the ONLY one.
politicalcompass . org is not the end-all, be-all. It is a severely flawed model. Democrats are not right wing and libertarians are not closer to Democrats than Republicans.
The compass hilariously finds Larry Hogan to be right of Trump.
While i consider myself a liberal capitalist Libertarian, I’m not at all tempted to become a Democrat. The last Democrat who made any sense to me was Dan Pat Moynihan. While I find some things attractive about Tulsi Gabbard, there are other things about her that I’m not too enthusiastic. The Democratic Party keeps slipping further and further into socialaism every year. The only reason Biden got nominated was because Warren and Sanders split the socialist vote. If the Democrats had ranked choice voting in their primaries, Sanders would probably have been their nominee (who would have then lost to Trump)
More or less control freak statism — for 6,000 plus years.
States/USA regime since 1776-1789 —
ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER statist laws — commie / fascist VERSIONS.
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PR AND APPV
If the aliens landed their spaceship and found aiden they would say take me to your dealer. This “political” compass is obviously off. Democrats are on the left like socialists, communists, anarchists, antifa, burn loot murder, liberals, progressives, rhinos, and most people don’t know Nazis are also on the left. Their original name was German workers party. Libertarians are on the right alongside conservative, Republican, nationalist, patriot, tea party, America first, maga, Qanon, etc. We need to unite the right to fight the left as Republicans so the Zionists don’t replace us, and Russia is our friend.