Wild Caucus
The LP Wild Caucus was founded in 2022 in order to serve the growing environmentalist and naturalist communities within Libertarianism, and to get these communities active within the Libertarian Party. The caucus currently acts as the 'green caucus' in the LP. The organization is based on the idea that not only is Libertarianism compatible with environmentalism, but that Liberty and the more nuanced philosophy of Naturalism go hand in hand.
| Wild Caucus | |
| General Information | |
| Chartered: | 2022 |
| Officers | |
| Chair: | Elijah M |
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| Website: | Website |
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The group was originally going to be called the "LP Naturalist Caucus", but the name "Wild Caucus" was ultimately created and chosen by the caucus founder/chair because, "To be wild, means to be both natural and free". This phrase is one of two caucus slogans, the other being, "LP Wild Caucus: Free, Naturally".
The Wild Caucus states three main objectives on their website;
1. Spreading the ideas of Naturalism, individual autonomy, free exchange, and mutual aid on a grassroots level.
2. Filling local and regional offices with wild Libertarians who can make direct small-scale change to protect the environment, freedom, and natural living.
3. Bringing ecological issues and Naturalist ideas to the forefront of the LP.
An in-depth intro and full party platform can be found on the caucus' website.
Platform
Formal Platform of the LP Wild Caucus:
On Nature
1. The Wild Caucus is a caucus which should represent Naturalism and Ecological concern within the LP
2. The Wild Caucus defines Naturalism as follows:
"Naturalism is the recognition that our environment is a decentralized, interdependent, and self-regulating collection of organisms and natural phenomenon. The naturalist then, holds two things to be true;
A. The human being's condition is crafted by the environment to suit a natural way of life, rather than an artificial one. This natural life is most healthy. Man is most psychologically satiated when he is autonomous, free, and able to provide for himself and his community directly, living a life healthy for his human body and mind.
B. Industrial progress and modern human civilization can have an impact on man's environment, which can which can lead to damage of our interdependent environment.
3. The Wild Caucus seeks to bring concern for damage to the environment by human activity to the forefront of the LP's discussion. Damage to nature's order means harm to the human.
4. The Wild Caucus seeks to promote solutions to modern issues caused by the state and large scale technology, through (A), limiting of the state, and (B), practicing technological temperance rather than technological fetishism. More government and more technology are not the most efficient solution to problems caused by the two.
On Culture
5. The Wild Caucus seeks to bring to light and address mental health issues caused by, and psychological effects of, oversocialization, social media use, porn addiction, etc, and how they can be prevented through natural living rather than state interference.
6. The Wild Caucus seeks to bring to light and address physiological issues brought about in modern times and how they can be prevented by natural living rather than state interference.
7. The Wild Caucus believes in supporting bodily autonomy and legalizing and promoting use of natural medicines (such as Psilocybin) by discerning adults.
8. The Wild Caucus denounces and shall not promote any abstract and collectivist social theories/sentiments such as Racial prejudice, Sexism, Ethnic Supremacism, 'Woke-ism', contemporary race theory, gender politics, etc.
9. The Wild Caucus holds that harmony with the natural environment and natural law brings about the best qualities and lifestyles of the human, and does not promote or discuss any particular cultural views outside of critique of the contemporary left and right.
10. The Wild Caucus will not support or promote hard-line "Transhumanism" and other technophilic ideologies. Technology cannot direct the environment just like the state cannot direct economies. This caucus calls for technological temperance being a social norm.
On Liberty
11. Most Importantly, the Wild Caucus believes in the LP's message of Liberty, Free Trade, and Non-Aggression.
Opposition to Culture War Politics
The Wild Caucus, via social media, has expressed concern about the increased division in the LP between culturally left wing and culturally right wing Libertarians. The Wild Caucus has promised that wherever WC members are put into power in the LP, they will display principled branding while not pandering to the left or right in particular. The primary concern of the Wild Caucus is showing a "green side" of the LP.
Organizational Structure
The Libertarian Party Wild Caucus is headed by a single chair, elected regularly. The chair is aided by a vice chair and together they supervise six regional supervisors who create whatever organizational structure they'd like below them.