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I have been told that my whole life... For nearly nothing.
Libertarians have a tendency for self-harm by obsessing with ideological purity.
Yeah... whatever. Principled Conservatives are painted with that same damn brush.
The socialists are glad to move the ball down the field one inch at a time.
LOL! No... They move the ball down the field like a freight train. In HUGE leaps and bounds. And rarely fail. Even when out of power.
The AZ Libertarians probably should have given Masters a chance in 2022, and nominate a candidate in 2028 if he strayed too far.
Nonsense. IOW, reject their own who stand upon their platform for more vapid promises from Republicans? Everybody is a Conservative during election. Every one of them says all the right things to get into office. And you expect blind faith in those snake charmers?
You know, Conservative libertarians used to be represented in the Republican party. Goldwater. That's the stuff that even more liberal libertarians can find agreement with. There ain't enough Goldwater (or Reagan) left in the Republican party to amount to a fart in a windstorm. If you want libertarians (and Conservatives) to come your way, it takes representing them. REALLY.
I have nothing against Masters, except that his name sounds like an action figure. The point remains. Your closest thing is no where good enough. And the lie that it will ever change was threadbare twenty years ago.