I am a registered Libertarian, I don't always vote for them. Their primaries are a bigger freakshow than the mainstream primaries but lately there's a new normal. If they could effectively take advantage of divisions in the current Republican party with the right candidate they might be in the in the running.
Why would disaffected Republicans vote for a libertaran? Republicans aren't libertarians ... they are conservatives.
Who else would they vote for?
If you want real change ... vote with your wallet. Sure, we are citizens with a vote, but we are also capitalists and rather than just vote once every 4 years with a selection of two equally crap candidates ... as a capitalist you get to vote every damned day and you can vote in countries all over the world. You don't like how Amazon behaves? Stop using them. You don't like Nike using child labour? Stop using them. You find Uber's zero hour contracts repugnant? Stop using them. A consumer can make real change because your vote isn't ignored the second someone gets into power ... money talks and bullshit walks.
It wasn't the British citizen voting to end slavery ... it was the British consumer. British housewives boycotted anything made by slaves ... sugar, cocoa, cotton and it brought to bear so much damage on the empire that the British sent their navy out to end it. Think about that. The consumer forced the world superpower to make monumental changes globally to human rights. You will never achieve that at a ballot box. Want to end climate change? You can't vote it to end. You have to buy electric cars, choose recyclable plastics, switch to clean energy providers.
Capitalism is the fairest most democratised system known to man. You have the exact same say as Bill Gates. How much toothpaste do you use? How much do you think Bill Gates uses? Your boycott or endorsement is worth every bit as much as his. He doesn't eat 1000's of times more potatoes than you. He has no more say than you. And sure, Bill gets a say in helicopters and you don't. But being as you don't buy helicopters, why should you have a say on them? It's nothing to do with you.
Can you imagine advocating for socialism? Asking the government to remove your consumer choices and taking away the only real say you have? 🤮
^The answer to this is "The Great American Consumer. They vote for me every fucking day that they log on and endorse my platform. Millions of them. If Americans don't like how Twitter behaves, Americans can stop using Twitter. Its not an essential service and it has competitors ... good ones. Now Senator, being as you draw your mandate from a vote just once every 4 years and its between a turd sandwich and a giant douche, who the hell decided that you get to talk to me like that, you fucking peasant?"
Cruz can't end Twitter. The US government can't end Twitter. It'll be the American consumer when they abandon it and move on to something else.
So it doesn't matter who you vote for ... libertarians, conservatives, republicans, democrats ... so long as you don't vote in socialists or communists. Just keep those fuckers out and you'll be fine.
Oh you idiots. 🤦