Libertarian campaign

It happened in Costa Rica, USA and New Zealand in 1994. It happened in Iceland in 2002. It happened in Denmark in 2005. Libertarians are increasingly figuring out that they must have a name for themselves in the public debate to get the voice of liberty in the air. The conservative parties of the West have changed into machines of State-controlled moral codes, strict foreigner-policies and a limited will to reduce the scale of the State. The old Leftists have actually gained an ally in the conservatives in most of the big issues. We risk loosing the West to the Left. A free, unsuppressed voice of liberty must move us away from that direction.

Of course there are the technicalities of the matter:

• Does and independent libertarian party in the two-party system of USA undermine the Republican Party and therefore do more harm than good? That might be. Maybe American libertarians should focus more on the states rather than fight on federal grounds.
• Can libertarians become big enough to influence the politics, or do they simply undermine the big conservative-parties? The popular voice of liberty will either make libertarian-parties big, or push the conservatives more into the direction of liberty. Either way the libertarians win.
• Isn't the unsheltered libertarian-message generally unpopular with the public, for example the libertarian stand on drugs, guns and privatization? Perhaps, yes, when it comes to the whole package. However, when serving as a voice in the debate, these issues are rarely a matter of hot debate. Libertarians are generally in the role of fighting State-expansion, attacks on personal freedom and tax-increases. Libertarians have a bigger job in pushing Leftists-myths out of the way than they have in gaining a lot of seats in parliaments. Libertarians rarely dream of becoming the "biggest" party even though they do well in elections (like in Costa Rica), but they need to stand alone if the voice of liberty isn't to be suffocated by the conservatives.

The list goes on. Libertarians in general can no longer afford to dwell within the big conservative-parties. That seems to be the case. Sure, libertarians might be "stealing" votes from the conservatives, increasing the risk of a Leftist-coalition seizing power. However, the voice of liberty does have the effects of increasing the Right so that the libertarians and conservativese have more votes to share.