Libertarians doing great things in Florida
The amount of great things happening with Libertarians is too long to list here. Just this afternoon the Vice Chair from Florida dropped by after having attended the OAI event yesterday. I was also very pleased to see former national chair, and one of our newest elected Libertarians, Jim T. attend the OAI event and visit the office. One of our newest staff members has been doing a fantastic job--Jess from Florida. I could sit here all day and write about 50 different exciting things happening in Florida, but obviously I don't want to take the time to do that right now. Spending lots of time focusing on a few bad things just gives oxygen to the bad elements. It's better not to even mention them. I'm also sometimes concerned that attacking some people teetering between libertarianism and other ideologies, may have the effect of alienating them and pushing them further away from embracing that which is good, and rejecting that which is bad. I was once a pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-police state, anti-immigration, bad guy. Early in my transition to becoming a libertarian, had I interacted with more mean nitpicking purist libertarian activists (not all purists are mean nitpickers by the way), or had I interacted with more mean nitpicking moderate libertarian activists (not all moderates are mean nitpickers by the way) I might have backed away from the Libertarian Party and re-embraced the Republican Party along with all of its bad policies--I'm often a team player. Let's be nice to each other. When one of our activists falls short, let's not rush to pile on. Let our first instinct be to rally around them and support them. Let our second instinct be to rally around them and support them again. Let our third instinct be to rally around them and support them again. And let our fourth instinct be to ignore them. There was once a guy seeking the Libertarian nomination for a high office in Texas. He would have been incredibly embarrassing and damaging to our brand if he had gotten a lot of publicity. I never publicized the person. Almost nobody ever found out about him. I treated his application for nomination equally to others--it was accepted as was supposed to be and processed. He didn't show up to the convention. He didn't get nominated. His name never reached the news or the email groups. I did not go on a bunch of email groups and start writing about how this guy was going to embarrass us if others found out about him. I shall not say his name here either. Be advised I'm not always the best example of what I'd like to see more of. -- Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.org facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
Wes. There are fantastic people in Florida. But this seems to give all the power to a few bullies and no succor to their victims who feel alone. And bullies love that. Are they not our brethren? ive been gaslighted. And I know more harm comes from the silence of people who know what is happening. We must not treat the bullieD as expendable in order to not give attention to the bullies. We would not want that if it were us. -Caryn Ann -Caryn Ann On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:56 AM Wes Benedict <wes.benedict@lp.org> wrote:
The amount of great things happening with Libertarians is too long to list here.
Just this afternoon the Vice Chair from Florida dropped by after having attended the OAI event yesterday.
I was also very pleased to see former national chair, and one of our newest elected Libertarians, Jim T. attend the OAI event and visit the office.
One of our newest staff members has been doing a fantastic job--Jess from Florida.
I could sit here all day and write about 50 different exciting things happening in Florida, but obviously I don't want to take the time to do that right now.
Spending lots of time focusing on a few bad things just gives oxygen to the bad elements. It's better not to even mention them.
I'm also sometimes concerned that attacking some people teetering between libertarianism and other ideologies, may have the effect of alienating them and pushing them further away from embracing that which is good, and rejecting that which is bad.
I was once a pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-police state, anti-immigration, bad guy. Early in my transition to becoming a libertarian, had I interacted with more mean nitpicking purist libertarian activists (not all purists are mean nitpickers by the way), or had I interacted with more mean nitpicking moderate libertarian activists (not all moderates are mean nitpickers by the way) I might have backed away from the Libertarian Party and re-embraced the Republican Party along with all of its bad policies--I'm often a team player.
Let's be nice to each other. When one of our activists falls short, let's not rush to pile on. Let our first instinct be to rally around them and support them. Let our second instinct be to rally around them and support them again. Let our third instinct be to rally around them and support them again. And let our fourth instinct be to ignore them.
There was once a guy seeking the Libertarian nomination for a high office in Texas. He would have been incredibly embarrassing and damaging to our brand if he had gotten a lot of publicity. I never publicized the person. Almost nobody ever found out about him. I treated his application for nomination equally to others--it was accepted as was supposed to be and processed. He didn't show up to the convention. He didn't get nominated. His name never reached the news or the email groups. I did not go on a bunch of email groups and start writing about how this guy was going to embarrass us if others found out about him. I shall not say his name here either.
Be advised I'm not always the best example of what I'd like to see more of.
-- Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 <https://maps.google.com/?q=1444+Duke+St.,+Alexandria,+VA+22314&entry=gmail&source=g> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.org facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
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Caryn Ann, I had someone complain to me today that you are a bully. For the record, I don't feel that you have been a bully to me. I will not name the current or former board members that I feel have gas lighted and bullied me over the years, not to mention the hundreds of libertarians that bully other libertarians daily on facebook. And of course I'm not going to list the people I have personally bullied and gas lighted. Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.org facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership On 10/27/2017 2:01 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:
Wes. There are fantastic people in Florida.
But this seems to give all the power to a few bullies and no succor to their victims who feel alone. And bullies love that.
Are they not our brethren?
ive been gaslighted. And I know more harm comes from the silence of people who know what is happening. We must not treat the bullieD as expendable in order to not give attention to the bullies. We would not want that if it were us.
-Caryn Ann
-Caryn Ann
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:56 AM Wes Benedict <wes.benedict@lp.org <mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org>> wrote:
The amount of great things happening with Libertarians is too long to list here.
Just this afternoon the Vice Chair from Florida dropped by after having attended the OAI event yesterday.
I was also very pleased to see former national chair, and one of our newest elected Libertarians, Jim T. attend the OAI event and visit the office.
One of our newest staff members has been doing a fantastic job--Jess from Florida.
I could sit here all day and write about 50 different exciting things happening in Florida, but obviously I don't want to take the time to do that right now.
Spending lots of time focusing on a few bad things just gives oxygen to the bad elements. It's better not to even mention them.
I'm also sometimes concerned that attacking some people teetering between libertarianism and other ideologies, may have the effect of alienating them and pushing them further away from embracing that which is good, and rejecting that which is bad.
I was once a pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-police state, anti-immigration, bad guy. Early in my transition to becoming a libertarian, had I interacted with more mean nitpicking purist libertarian activists (not all purists are mean nitpickers by the way), or had I interacted with more mean nitpicking moderate libertarian activists (not all moderates are mean nitpickers by the way) I might have backed away from the Libertarian Party and re-embraced the Republican Party along with all of its bad policies--I'm often a team player.
Let's be nice to each other. When one of our activists falls short, let's not rush to pile on. Let our first instinct be to rally around them and support them. Let our second instinct be to rally around them and support them again. Let our third instinct be to rally around them and support them again. And let our fourth instinct be to ignore them.
There was once a guy seeking the Libertarian nomination for a high office in Texas. He would have been incredibly embarrassing and damaging to our brand if he had gotten a lot of publicity. I never publicized the person. Almost nobody ever found out about him. I treated his application for nomination equally to others--it was accepted as was supposed to be and processed. He didn't show up to the convention. He didn't get nominated. His name never reached the news or the email groups. I did not go on a bunch of email groups and start writing about how this guy was going to embarrass us if others found out about him. I shall not say his name here either.
Be advised I'm not always the best example of what I'd like to see more of.
-- Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 <https://maps.google.com/?q=1444+Duke+St.,+Alexandria,+VA+22314&entry=gmail&source=g> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.org <mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org> facebook.com/libertarians <http://facebook.com/libertarians> @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
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-- *In Liberty,* *Caryn Ann Harlos* Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org <mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado <http://www.lpcolorado.org> Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee
A haiku to the Statement of Principles: /We defend your rights/ /And oppose the use of force/ /Taxation is theft/
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Could you give us an official definition of "gas lighting?" I might not know what I'm talking about. Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.org facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership On 10/27/2017 2:12 PM, Wes Benedict wrote:
Caryn Ann, I had someone complain to me today that you are a bully.
For the record, I don't feel that you have been a bully to me.
I will not name the current or former board members that I feel have gas lighted and bullied me over the years, not to mention the hundreds of libertarians that bully other libertarians daily on facebook.
And of course I'm not going to list the people I have personally bullied and gas lighted.
Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 (202) 333-0008 ext. 232,wes.benedict@lp.org facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at:http://lp.org/membership On 10/27/2017 2:01 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:
Wes. There are fantastic people in Florida.
But this seems to give all the power to a few bullies and no succor to their victims who feel alone. And bullies love that.
Are they not our brethren?
ive been gaslighted. And I know more harm comes from the silence of people who know what is happening. We must not treat the bullieD as expendable in order to not give attention to the bullies. We would not want that if it were us.
-Caryn Ann
-Caryn Ann
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:56 AM Wes Benedict <wes.benedict@lp.org <mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org>> wrote:
The amount of great things happening with Libertarians is too long to list here.
Just this afternoon the Vice Chair from Florida dropped by after having attended the OAI event yesterday.
I was also very pleased to see former national chair, and one of our newest elected Libertarians, Jim T. attend the OAI event and visit the office.
One of our newest staff members has been doing a fantastic job--Jess from Florida.
I could sit here all day and write about 50 different exciting things happening in Florida, but obviously I don't want to take the time to do that right now.
Spending lots of time focusing on a few bad things just gives oxygen to the bad elements. It's better not to even mention them.
I'm also sometimes concerned that attacking some people teetering between libertarianism and other ideologies, may have the effect of alienating them and pushing them further away from embracing that which is good, and rejecting that which is bad.
I was once a pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-police state, anti-immigration, bad guy. Early in my transition to becoming a libertarian, had I interacted with more mean nitpicking purist libertarian activists (not all purists are mean nitpickers by the way), or had I interacted with more mean nitpicking moderate libertarian activists (not all moderates are mean nitpickers by the way) I might have backed away from the Libertarian Party and re-embraced the Republican Party along with all of its bad policies--I'm often a team player.
Let's be nice to each other. When one of our activists falls short, let's not rush to pile on. Let our first instinct be to rally around them and support them. Let our second instinct be to rally around them and support them again. Let our third instinct be to rally around them and support them again. And let our fourth instinct be to ignore them.
There was once a guy seeking the Libertarian nomination for a high office in Texas. He would have been incredibly embarrassing and damaging to our brand if he had gotten a lot of publicity. I never publicized the person. Almost nobody ever found out about him. I treated his application for nomination equally to others--it was accepted as was supposed to be and processed. He didn't show up to the convention. He didn't get nominated. His name never reached the news or the email groups. I did not go on a bunch of email groups and start writing about how this guy was going to embarrass us if others found out about him. I shall not say his name here either.
Be advised I'm not always the best example of what I'd like to see more of.
-- Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 <https://maps.google.com/?q=1444+Duke+St.,+Alexandria,+VA+22314&entry=gmail&source=g> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.org <mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org> facebook.com/libertarians <http://facebook.com/libertarians> @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
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A haiku to the Statement of Principles: /We defend your rights/ /And oppose the use of force/ /Taxation is theft/
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Gaslighting is doing things with plausible denialability and making the target look and feel crazy, paranoid, unhinged when they complain. It is very common in abusuve relationships. And the victim suffers both from the predator and by the "not don't to be involved" others. It comes from the play "Gas Light" later made into a classic movie. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:15 PM Wes Benedict <wes.benedict@lp.org> wrote:
Could you give us an official definition of "gas lighting?"
I might not know what I'm talking about.
Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.orgfacebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
On 10/27/2017 2:12 PM, Wes Benedict wrote:
Caryn Ann, I had someone complain to me today that you are a bully.
For the record, I don't feel that you have been a bully to me.
I will not name the current or former board members that I feel have gas lighted and bullied me over the years, not to mention the hundreds of libertarians that bully other libertarians daily on facebook.
And of course I'm not going to list the people I have personally bullied and gas lighted.
Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.orgfacebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
On 10/27/2017 2:01 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:
Wes. There are fantastic people in Florida.
But this seems to give all the power to a few bullies and no succor to their victims who feel alone. And bullies love that.
Are they not our brethren?
ive been gaslighted. And I know more harm comes from the silence of people who know what is happening. We must not treat the bullieD as expendable in order to not give attention to the bullies. We would not want that if it were us.
-Caryn Ann
-Caryn Ann
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:56 AM Wes Benedict <wes.benedict@lp.org> wrote:
The amount of great things happening with Libertarians is too long to list here.
Just this afternoon the Vice Chair from Florida dropped by after having attended the OAI event yesterday.
I was also very pleased to see former national chair, and one of our newest elected Libertarians, Jim T. attend the OAI event and visit the office.
One of our newest staff members has been doing a fantastic job--Jess from Florida.
I could sit here all day and write about 50 different exciting things happening in Florida, but obviously I don't want to take the time to do that right now.
Spending lots of time focusing on a few bad things just gives oxygen to the bad elements. It's better not to even mention them.
I'm also sometimes concerned that attacking some people teetering between libertarianism and other ideologies, may have the effect of alienating them and pushing them further away from embracing that which is good, and rejecting that which is bad.
I was once a pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-police state, anti-immigration, bad guy. Early in my transition to becoming a libertarian, had I interacted with more mean nitpicking purist libertarian activists (not all purists are mean nitpickers by the way), or had I interacted with more mean nitpicking moderate libertarian activists (not all moderates are mean nitpickers by the way) I might have backed away from the Libertarian Party and re-embraced the Republican Party along with all of its bad policies--I'm often a team player.
Let's be nice to each other. When one of our activists falls short, let's not rush to pile on. Let our first instinct be to rally around them and support them. Let our second instinct be to rally around them and support them again. Let our third instinct be to rally around them and support them again. And let our fourth instinct be to ignore them.
There was once a guy seeking the Libertarian nomination for a high office in Texas. He would have been incredibly embarrassing and damaging to our brand if he had gotten a lot of publicity. I never publicized the person. Almost nobody ever found out about him. I treated his application for nomination equally to others--it was accepted as was supposed to be and processed. He didn't show up to the convention. He didn't get nominated. His name never reached the news or the email groups. I did not go on a bunch of email groups and start writing about how this guy was going to embarrass us if others found out about him. I shall not say his name here either.
Be advised I'm not always the best example of what I'd like to see more of.
-- Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 <https://maps.google.com/?q=1444+Duke+St.,+Alexandria,+VA+22314&entry=gmail&source=g> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.org facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
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A haiku to the Statement of Principles: *We defend your rights* *And oppose the use of force* *Taxation is theft*
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Wes, there are always complaints - I get complaints that are [INSERT X] was rude and I put it in context and evaluate accordingly from what I know. However mere political wrangling and personality disputes is not what is going on here. This is precisely what the gaslighter wants. Turning it on the person who tries to speak on behalf of the victim (which is why people remain silent) by saying "what about you" and causing them to be defensive. But instead, I confess. I'm not perfect. I can be cranky, stubborn, and contentious. Despite runours to the contrary I am not a robot. And in many spheres of life assertive women will be called bullies or bossy. Sometimes we are. People fear to speak out because they aren't perfect. I know perfectly well I am not. I could be Elizabeth Bathory and still be right about what is happening here. -Caryn Ann On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:19 PM Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos@gmail.com> wrote:
Gaslighting is doing things with plausible denialability and making the target look and feel crazy, paranoid, unhinged when they complain. It is very common in abusuve relationships. And the victim suffers both from the predator and by the "not don't to be involved" others.
It comes from the play "Gas Light" later made into a classic movie.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:15 PM Wes Benedict <wes.benedict@lp.org> wrote:
Could you give us an official definition of "gas lighting?"
I might not know what I'm talking about.
Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.orgfacebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
On 10/27/2017 2:12 PM, Wes Benedict wrote:
Caryn Ann, I had someone complain to me today that you are a bully.
For the record, I don't feel that you have been a bully to me.
I will not name the current or former board members that I feel have gas lighted and bullied me over the years, not to mention the hundreds of libertarians that bully other libertarians daily on facebook.
And of course I'm not going to list the people I have personally bullied and gas lighted.
Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.orgfacebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
On 10/27/2017 2:01 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:
Wes. There are fantastic people in Florida.
But this seems to give all the power to a few bullies and no succor to their victims who feel alone. And bullies love that.
Are they not our brethren?
ive been gaslighted. And I know more harm comes from the silence of people who know what is happening. We must not treat the bullieD as expendable in order to not give attention to the bullies. We would not want that if it were us.
-Caryn Ann
-Caryn Ann
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:56 AM Wes Benedict <wes.benedict@lp.org> wrote:
The amount of great things happening with Libertarians is too long to list here.
Just this afternoon the Vice Chair from Florida dropped by after having attended the OAI event yesterday.
I was also very pleased to see former national chair, and one of our newest elected Libertarians, Jim T. attend the OAI event and visit the office.
One of our newest staff members has been doing a fantastic job--Jess from Florida.
I could sit here all day and write about 50 different exciting things happening in Florida, but obviously I don't want to take the time to do that right now.
Spending lots of time focusing on a few bad things just gives oxygen to the bad elements. It's better not to even mention them.
I'm also sometimes concerned that attacking some people teetering between libertarianism and other ideologies, may have the effect of alienating them and pushing them further away from embracing that which is good, and rejecting that which is bad.
I was once a pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-police state, anti-immigration, bad guy. Early in my transition to becoming a libertarian, had I interacted with more mean nitpicking purist libertarian activists (not all purists are mean nitpickers by the way), or had I interacted with more mean nitpicking moderate libertarian activists (not all moderates are mean nitpickers by the way) I might have backed away from the Libertarian Party and re-embraced the Republican Party along with all of its bad policies--I'm often a team player.
Let's be nice to each other. When one of our activists falls short, let's not rush to pile on. Let our first instinct be to rally around them and support them. Let our second instinct be to rally around them and support them again. Let our third instinct be to rally around them and support them again. And let our fourth instinct be to ignore them.
There was once a guy seeking the Libertarian nomination for a high office in Texas. He would have been incredibly embarrassing and damaging to our brand if he had gotten a lot of publicity. I never publicized the person. Almost nobody ever found out about him. I treated his application for nomination equally to others--it was accepted as was supposed to be and processed. He didn't show up to the convention. He didn't get nominated. His name never reached the news or the email groups. I did not go on a bunch of email groups and start writing about how this guy was going to embarrass us if others found out about him. I shall not say his name here either.
Be advised I'm not always the best example of what I'd like to see more of.
-- Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 <https://maps.google.com/?q=1444+Duke+St.,+Alexandria,+VA+22314&entry=gmail&source=g> (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.org facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership
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A haiku to the Statement of Principles: *We defend your rights* *And oppose the use of force* *Taxation is theft*
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A haiku to the Statement of Principles: *We defend your rights* *And oppose the use of force* *Taxation is theft*
-- *In Liberty,* *Caryn Ann Harlos* Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado <http://www.lpcolorado.org> Chair, LP Historical Preservation Committee
A haiku to the Statement of Principles: *We defend your rights* *And oppose the use of force* *Taxation is theft*
Here's a photo of the Miami Libertarians (plus me and LNC Alt. Steven Nekhaila of Fl Keys) on election night: Wes Benedict, Executive Director Libertarian National Committee, Inc. 1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314 (202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict@lp.org facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership On 10/27/2017 1:56 PM, Wes Benedict wrote:
The amount of great things happening with Libertarians is too long to list here.
Just this afternoon the Vice Chair from Florida dropped by after having attended the OAI event yesterday.
I was also very pleased to see former national chair, and one of our newest elected Libertarians, Jim T. attend the OAI event and visit the office.
One of our newest staff members has been doing a fantastic job--Jess from Florida.
I could sit here all day and write about 50 different exciting things happening in Florida, but obviously I don't want to take the time to do that right now.
Spending lots of time focusing on a few bad things just gives oxygen to the bad elements. It's better not to even mention them.
I'm also sometimes concerned that attacking some people teetering between libertarianism and other ideologies, may have the effect of alienating them and pushing them further away from embracing that which is good, and rejecting that which is bad.
I was once a pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-police state, anti-immigration, bad guy. Early in my transition to becoming a libertarian, had I interacted with more mean nitpicking purist libertarian activists (not all purists are mean nitpickers by the way), or had I interacted with more mean nitpicking moderate libertarian activists (not all moderates are mean nitpickers by the way) I might have backed away from the Libertarian Party and re-embraced the Republican Party along with all of its bad policies--I'm often a team player.
Let's be nice to each other. When one of our activists falls short, let's not rush to pile on. Let our first instinct be to rally around them and support them. Let our second instinct be to rally around them and support them again. Let our third instinct be to rally around them and support them again. And let our fourth instinct be to ignore them.
There was once a guy seeking the Libertarian nomination for a high office in Texas. He would have been incredibly embarrassing and damaging to our brand if he had gotten a lot of publicity. I never publicized the person. Almost nobody ever found out about him. I treated his application for nomination equally to others--it was accepted as was supposed to be and processed. He didn't show up to the convention. He didn't get nominated. His name never reached the news or the email groups. I did not go on a bunch of email groups and start writing about how this guy was going to embarrass us if others found out about him. I shall not say his name here either.
Be advised I'm not always the best example of what I'd like to see more of.
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