https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/why-the-libertarian-party-failed/

Why The Libertarian Party Failed
Charles Burris

An article posted on Yahoo News, The obliteration of the Republican-libertarian alliance, has prompted me to finally compose this article regarding thoughts and considerations I have been ruminating about for some time.

What is amazing is that Yahoo republished this above article. I suppose that it was considered “anti-Trump”and “anti-GOP” so it was posted at that venomous anti-Trump fake news site.

The article is both forthright and candid in its veracity or truthfulness. There never truly was a “Republican-libertarian alliance,” only an imaginary mental construct of delusional rhetoric of one existing in embryo.

Most of the persons who initially made up the contemporary modern libertarian movement formed in the late 1960s came from remnants of the 1964 Barry Goldwater presidential campaign who were self-styled young conservatives disillusioned with the direction America was going both domestically and in foreign affairs in Nixonian America.

There was also a strong component of persons from this time reaching out to disillusioned members of the campus New Left in organizations such as SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) who were equally anti-war opponents of the Vietnam War, who were anti-draft and believed in political decentralization and civil liberties. ......

Further Reflections on Why the Libertarian Party Failed
Charles Burris

Why The Libertarian Party Failed,
by Charles Burris

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/why-the-libertarian-party-failed/

Please read the above LRC link. They are my initial thoughts, ruminations, and ideas on why I left active participation and support of the Libertarian Party for 47 years, examining both “objective” and “subjective” factors for its failure. I was a dedicated Libertarian from 1973 to 2020 and served in numerous offices and capacities during that period, including chairman of the Oklahoma state Party organization. ......