Creede Newton Writes About Internal Libertarian Party Divisions

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Creede Newton, an investigative journalist who has worked in the past for Al Jazeera, and who now writes for the Southern Poverty Law Center, has this lengthy article about the Libertarian Party’s recent internal divisions.

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Creede Newton Writes About Internal Libertarian Party Divisions — 34 Comments

  1. What an absolute crock of shit! Could the lying fake news communist propaganda be any more obvious?

  2. 1. It’s the Southern Poverty Law Center and they’re more or less a joke in intelligent discourse.

    2. I ask this as a currently serving Libertarian county party chair: the Mises Caucus takes power this weekend at the national level, what changes? They have no right to coerce myself or anyone else to do anything, say anything, or are only required to believe certain opinions to be party members because that would be authoritarian which is against Libertarian philosophy. The National Party has very miniscule power compared to the power my state party exercises – which is how federalism works – and the state level is where all the organizing, strategizing, and fundraising occurs. The Mises Caucus is not a relevant organization as concerns my county party’s campaigns for office in November or us spreading libertarian philosophy to individuals in our county.

    I feel like if things go like they’re heading the next 2 years will answer the question “once a dog has caught the car it was chasing, what does it do next?” What are they going to do, rail on LINO’s? So become MAGA and the DSA? Yeah, that’s why I left the two mainstream parties.

  3. I’m a Republican and don’t know about internal Libertarian stuff but I do know that if the communist scumbags at the SPLC hate you and call you a racist, bigot, nazi, etc it’s a sign you are doing something right and getting under their thin commie skins.

  4. This writer obviously didn’t do any research. Richard Winger once again is showing his bias and love of communists.

  9. This is an example of why Thomas DiLorenzo from the Mises Institute calls them the Soviet Poverty Lie Center.

  10. The article fails to point out that Libertarian votes may have shifted the 2016 election in Trump’s favor.

    Could Trump have won in 2016 without the Libertarian candidates?

  12. Notice how the communist scum always accuse others of what they do. The leftist corrupted establishment in the LP is clearly colluding with commies and dims (same thing) so they accuse the real libertarians of colluding with the GOP. Never mind that Murray Rothbard and Ron Paul actually built the LP ground up.

  13. 6 posts accusing the Southern Povery Law Center of being communists, an insult from…what, the mid-00s? So I guess we have one sock puppet in high 30s to high 40s posting under different names 6 times or there’s a complete lack of creativity among Nick, FAKE NEWS, Addison, Blair. At least with Andy’s post there’s a level of actual thought and detail he put into the post.

    I did google search “splc commumist”, nothing came up, but got this opinion article published in the Washington Post in 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-southern-poverty-law-center-has-lost-all-credibility/2018/06/21/22ab7d60-756d-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html

  14. They are communist. It’s a fact not an insult. I’m not anyone’s sock puppet and don’t have any of my own.

  15. Ryan is clueless. If not for the opinion article (from a communist newspaper) I would think he is Robert K Stock trolling under yet another name.

  16. Even I have to admit the SPLC is communist. I just see that as a good thing. It helps to serve my friend and brother Satan and be woke and enlightened

  17. Creede Newton is a distinguished journalist. As the post points out, in the past he wrote for Al Jazeera.

    The SPLC, formed in 1971, is not the same organization it was in the past. It fired Morris Dees over three years ago.

    If anyone thinks there are inaccurate statements in Newton’s article, please state what is inaccurate about his piece.

  18. Al Jazeera? A government run propaganda organization? You consider that distinguished?

    The LAMA members that signed a petition for a special convention are allowed to per their bylaws. The article calls Mises members racist p, when they are not. Richard Winger shows once again he’s not a libertarian, but actually a communist.

    The SPLC is the same organization. Far left wing and racist.

  19. I don’t see anything in the article that makes blanket comments about members of the Mises Caucus. The article talks about particular individuals and what they have said and done.

    Al Jazeera has a distinguished record and has won many journalism awards from many different groups. In the past, the U.S. bombed its Baghdad office. The governments of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt have tried to shut it down. It receives funding from the government of Qatar but is editorially independent.

  20. It’s a communist terrorists front organization peddling fake news propaganda on behalf of jihadist Islamic supremacists and Nazis.

  22. Richard Winger is now using Wikipedia, which anyone can edit, to push his case? How pathetic.
    Al Jazeera is propaganda.

    Winger needs to reread the article.

  24. If Al Jazeera is “propaganda”, why has it won so many awards, such as from the Index on Censorship, and the Webby Awards?

  27. Ryan, regarding your question in point 2 – what changes?

    It is incorrect to state that most fundraising takes place at the state level. Most fundraising is done by the national party. A large amount of money is then spent on messaging at the national level and also hundreds of thousands is distributed to the states for ballot access, especially in Presidential years. Most membership recruitment is done by the Presidential candidate.

    It is impossible to say what *will* change, only what it is *possible* to change.

    First, the most likely thing that changes is national party messaging. It would instantly become less inclusive of all and more welcoming to nationalists. Imagine Jeremy Kauffman’s edgy teenager-esque tweets coming from national, rather than just New Hampshire.

    Second, once MC members control enough states they could exclusively send MC members to the national convention which selects the Presidential candidate. The Presidential candidate is the public face of the LP and overwhelmingly drives what sort of people choose to become members. Again, that could drive more nationalists coming to the party.

    Third, the national party controls the allocation of resources to states for ballot access. The MC could favor states which it controls and disfavor other states. Alternatively, the MC could fail to send money for ballot access to states which might cost a MC liked Republican candidate the election.

  28. The timing of this hit piece is quite telling. I am on the ground in Reno right now, well, technically it is in Sparks, as a delegate for the 2022 Libertarian National Convention.

    The fact that the Mises Caucus is being attacked by the SPLC, tells me that we (I joined the Mises Caucus not long after it started) are doing something right.

    This will be my 9th Libertarian National Convention, and this July will be my 26 anniversary as an LP member.

  29. An attempted takeover of the Libertarian Party by a Republican “infiltrate and neuter” operation fraudulently masquerading as a party caucus is not an “internal division.”

  30. If you take out the word attempted and change Republican to communist you get to what actually happened. The Mises Caucus is the real libertarians taking the LP back from the communist takeover.

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