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Prospective Free State Wyoming (FSW) Members and Interested Parties => Prospective Free State Wyoming (FSW) Members and Interested Parties => Topic started by: Jake.Witmer on July 18, 2009, 06:15:02 AM
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If you're going to organize anonymously in favor of libertarianism online, you might as well post logical, brief, polite, libertarian comments on local Wyoming boards. (Register anonymously with online Wyoming newspapers, gun clubs, etc...) After all, if your comments influence a Wyoming resident in favor of individual freedom, vote-wise, it's as if they influenced 25 Illinois residents.
Moreover, being online all the time is a serious waste of time, activism-wise, and it's better to "free up" the people who have already moved to WY, for face-to-face contact. (Let the out of staters spend the time on the ten or so electronic communications necessary to influence/inform one opinion.)
(Unless IL-liberal residents are somehow more likely to vote libertarian on social tolerance issues, because liberals are less attached to the Democrats than the conservatives are to the Republican Party, which is a possibility --especially as the economy collapses.)
Right now, I tend to think that the low-population states have more of a chance, due to the relative ease with which any competent libertarian activist convinces anyone to 'switch allegiance'.
And yes, "illiberal" was a pun, and it was intended in the Hayekian sense of the term "liberal"...
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Welcome Jake, and thanks. However, it's considered polite to read as much as possible and get to know the folks on this forum before you tell us how we should be doing things.
Not all of us are "libertarians," nor are all of us political activists. FSW itself is apolitical. You can network with the activists via the forum, but you are not ever going to get FSW as a whole to do anything.
Just a bit of advice from an old hand here.
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Actually, Jake makes a very good point, even if he did display what looks like a bit of youthful enthusiasm. ;)
Welcome aboard.