How Libertarians can attain political power | Eric Brakey | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
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- The director of The Free State Project and Maine legislator talks about the free state movement’s history, accomplishments, and future.
0:00- Ad: The Dispatch
1:05- Introduction
2:01- The Free State Project: a place for 'the libertarian diaspora'
5:00- Free State Projects’ political wins in New Hampshire
8:38- Free State Projects’ cultural wins in New Hampshire
10:20- Brakey’s priorities for Free State Project
11:07- Who are Free Staters?
14:11- Libertarian movement’s internal tensions
18:15- 2024 election for libertarians
21:51- Ad: Bank On Yourself
23:43- Brakey’s history & accomplishments in Maine politics
26:15- Why are gun rights so important to libertarians?
27:06- Democrats & Republicans v Libertarians
29:20- Cannabis policy reform in Maine
30:47- Brakey’s history with Young Americans for Liberty
34:20- Are American elections rigged against Libertarians?
38:19- How to gauge Free State Project’s success?
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Today's guest is Eric Brakey, the new executive director of The Free State Project, a nonprofit that has been working since 2001 to get small-government diehards to move to New Hampshire and make the Granite State a stronghold for libertarian ideas. Prior to becoming head of the Free State Project, Brakey was a Republican state senator in Maine, where he authored successful legislation that expanded gun rights, legalized over-the-counter birth control, and enacted Right To Try legislation. Reason's Nick Gillespie talks to Brakey about the state of the libertarian movement, how Ron Paul and Young Americans for Liberty shaped his worldview, and how he hopes to concentrate what he calls "the libertarian diaspora" in New Hampshire.
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The Libertarian Party will never be more than a debate club for those who say they are Constitutionalists but would gladly trade The Constitution AND The Bill of Rights for the legalization of Marijuana
TF lol
That's how Reason treats the issue. Maybe it's correct to try and work within the system, but it sure doesn't look that way right now. After that convention they really solidified the joke status of the party.
Isn't legalization of marijuana. Consistent with the bill of rights ?
Brakey channeled Milton Friedman there for a moment:
“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
- Milton Friedman
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”
― Lysander Spooner,
so why not just respect people rights don't use force and cooperate with others to have a win win situation be self sufficient
SELF-SUFFICIENT is able to maintain oneself or itself without outside aid
educating one's own kids
have competition against the police
and letting the best police institutions win on that battle
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Dale Brown: Founder of VIPERS Detroit Threat Management Center, Private Security Agency
here is a agency that is actively challenging the police institutions
the fact the population is decreasing in New Hampshire, yet more people of this mindset keep moving there, sounds good for the future
Yet, New Hampshire loves voting for Democrats to be president.
Sure, pal. Because New Hampshire is such an influential state in the USA. 🙄
@@DisposableSupervillainHenchman we can make it an influential state in the usa. more importantly, i don't care how much influence it has over the rest of the us as long as i can be free over there.
@@davidlewis6728 Good for you, ya Ayn Randian wanker.
Brakey is one of the best in the business. He's going to do great things with the Free State Project. Class act and a great guy.
I've met Brakey. There was an AR-15 raffle at a fair in Maine. Seemed like a stand up guy.
The FDA should be dissolved.
No
But the libertarian party should
Great interview. That said, I suspect that this will likely only happen (on a large enough scale) after everything collapses. Thankfully, the duopoly has been working overtime to achieve just that. : "Enjoy the decline, boys!" 🍻
Actually try to win an election would be a good place to start.
it would be hilarious if the free state project had been in New Jersey
I have completely had it with the Libertarian Party.
In Arizona the Libertarian candidate failed to drop out of the governors race in 2020, taking votes that would have put Kari Lake over the top. I don't blame Libertarian incompetence and frivolousness; it was on purpose.
And the Libertarian border plan is to OPEN IT COMPLETELY.
So hard pass on Libertarian/Democrat liars.
The libertarian refused to drop out to give kari lake an advantage. So you aren't a libertarian to begin with....
You are located far away from me. Stay there.
Sounds like a problem with the election system. Perhaps a more powerful power could change the voting system from a primary voting to rank choice so this isn’t a problem anymore? Oh wait, then more republicans and democrats would lose to third party candidates 🤷
@@davidanalyst671 lol Right. The libertarian wing of the Democrat party wanted to vote Libertarian. Good one.
Get NH to pass a RC employment protection law and wayy more people would be willing to move where libertarians have democratic power through numbers. But you simply can't compete with states that already have it if you don't.
I'm not trying to boss people around in their bed rooms, but I also don't want people bringing children into their bedroom activities,or bringing their bedroom activities out into public.
They always say that at first. And the next thing you know, abortion is outlawed, contraception becomes less available ( Like they tried to do in a recent case "FDA v. AHM", and you have 10 commandments or other religions bullshit in your kids' classroom, like they try to do in Louisiana, I believe. It's always a slippery slope)
@@Lev_Tretiakov Just as slippery as "Love is Love" turning into 2nd graders watching guys fist each other during a Pride Parade.
Oh yeah, this is gonna be good 😂
Respect for Const Carry 💪. Okay, this one's not a clown.
The only way we will have power is if prospective voters have to pass an aptitude test. A test showing the ability to reason
Such a test administered by the current administration would result in an "ineptitude" test rather than a true aptitude test.
And who makes the "aptitude" test? Sounda great on paper, terrible idea in real life.
@@Nemerson74 new unintended consequences video 😂
Weather- location, location, location
How is weed still illegal in the live free or die state?
Great question, I imagine if the movement grows, that will change.
The wife wants cooler weather and I like to hike. Researching NH. Property tax though.
Maine would have been a better choice.
Texas / Florida = better weather than NH.
-bZj
Run as a fake candidate, play long game.
When you asked what Joe Biden could do to gain libertarians' votes, i had to wonder if you were going to mention pardoning Assange. Had to laugh when you did.
New Hampshire is too cold.
They sell jackets.
Considering what the American founders risked, putting up with some snow and ice wouldn't be so bad.
Libertarianism will always be a hard sell in the US. Hedonism and religious fundamentalism don't mix.
Thats what Jefferson said. Being free of the government regulating every transaction, every ownership of property, being free of sending your kids to fight bush's enemies, and taking home your entire paycheck is really not going to work in America.
So like...are you saying that the US are religious fundamentalists and libertarianism is hedonistic?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Libertarians attaining political power....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 smh.
lol delusional libertarians
My 3 problems with Libertarianism:
1. It offers a set of rules that ONLY work if everyone agrees to follow them. The problem is... the modern Left, virtually by definition, are people who insist on breaking the rules. It's like trying to play a baseball game. Libertarians keep pointing at the rule book and saying, "Just follow these rules and we'll have a fun, competitive, exiting game." But Leftists keep striking out and calling it a homerun; or grounding out at second and calling it a triple. I mean, how can we engage with people who suddenly tell us that men who think they're women are, in fact women; or black people cant be racist; or we must throw our political rival in jail to protect Democracy? They're allowed to loot and riot in political protest-- without repercussion (mostly peaceful as the city burns in the background). But if the Right do it... the date is etched in our collective memory as a 9/11 type atrocity and the perpetrators are held in jail for years without trial. And yet... Libertarians constantly INSIST that the honest team keep playing by the rules, even if their opponent does not. In effect, this isnt a game at all. It's the beatdown of a man with his hands tied behind his back. The Right still have to use their bats to hit the ball... even though the Left is using their bats to crack skulls.
2. On paper, Libertarians rightly view themselves as defenders of Liberty, Individualism and Free Choice. But when applied in the real world, it becomes patently obvious that Libertarians are nothing more than defenders of Debauchery, Hedonism and Social Decay. If we did expand freedoms as far as they could go without violating the non-aggression principle... we would NOT increase the amount of virtuous behaviors in the world-- we would simply increase the amount of deviant behavior in the world. We would not see a strengthening of the family unit; more discovery and innovation; or harder working people producing more. We WOULD see an uptick in ever more bizarre expressions of homosexuality; more lethal overdoes of potent drugs; and more homeless schizophrenics gleefully pooping on public sidewalks. And the Libertarians would sit back and say, "ain't freedom great!"
3. Libertarianism is a paper theory... meaning, it's an untested idea. Well, there's nothing inherently impressive about having an idea. They're a dime a dozen. 200 ideas pop into my head a day-- free of charge. The US is NOT a Free Libertarian Society... it's a Constitutional Republic. That means, we are allowed to establish and enforce laws that violate the non-aggression principle... so long as those laws don't infringe upon very specific rights guaranteed to us by the Constitution. If, for whatever reason, an elected leader wanted to pass a law saying, 'any citizen caught in possession of a hairdryer will serve a mandatory 5 years in jail...' he's within his authority to do so. But... he could NOT pass such a law involving a firearm-- because the right to bear arms is a Constitutional guarantee. The point is... all your demands that we follow your Libertarian rules... they dont exist. If you want them enforced as the law of the land... go out, start a war with the world's largest superpower, defeat them and then establish your own Libertarian country. Until then-- what are we talking about? You've got nothing but a half-baked, untested paper theory... enforceable nowhere... that would create the United States of Gay Crackhead Sidewalk Poopers... and whose rules would be immediately broken by every Left-wing, hedonistic degenerate your society was designed to produce.
The USA before the modern BS state was a libertarian society. Right now CNN MSNBC and FOX and the CIA are propagandizing and making everyone go insane. Most countries don't have media organizations trying to make everyone go insane. Then thhey have serious consequences for going insane. The USA from the era of the mayflower up to the federal reserve, the Roosevelts started a world-wide society of nations, so up to the 1910's ish was a libertarian society.
The USA has been a libertarian society longer than it has been a big statist interventionist, big banker, mass industrialist, government schooled, drug warred society. So your main point is wrong. it is not a paper theory. Statism in the USA is a paper theory compared to the length of time libertarianism has had
I fully support your plan in point 3 for the libertarian Army of the 12 Million Monkeys to conquer Russia or England and start the real free state project 😸. Within a decade it'll probably be doable, at the rate those countries are going, and they might get Germany and South Korea thrown in for free.
I don’t think you understand libertarianism OP.
Who taught you about libertarianism? 🤣🤣🤣 That's a rhetorical question. We all know it wasn't from an established libertarian.
Lol they cant
You didnt even watch the video