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This page documents instances in which the LP Platform was used in front of significantly-sized audiences to attack or embarrass the LP as too extreme. Many of these items were found by searching Google News Archives [http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=]. | This page documents instances in which the LP Platform was used in front of significantly-sized audiences to attack or embarrass the LP as too extreme. Many of these items were found by searching Google News Archives [http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=]. | ||
*Seven planks are quoted to marginalize the LP, most notably the position on self-defense. The Progressive, August 31, 2016 [https://progressive.org/dispatches/libertarian-converts-know-party-actually-stands-for/ Do Libertarian Converts Know What the Party Actually Stands For?] | |||
* "I want to pull a little bit of a quote of from what you have put on your website. You said the libertarian platform in 1980 called for abolishing the minimum wage, and income taxes. David Koch was a candidate for Vice President that year on a ticket headed by Edward Clark. They thought Ronald Reagan was too liberal. Today David Koch and his brother Charles have turned that 1980 extremism into mainstream Republican Party orthodoxy, by putting their fortune behind right-wing politicians and think tanks." Question was from host Joy Reid with MSNBC's The Reid Report, asked of Bernie Sanders. 2014-04-17. [http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/bernie-sanders-hypocritical-attack-koch-brothers] | * "I want to pull a little bit of a quote of from what you have put on your website. You said the libertarian platform in 1980 called for abolishing the minimum wage, and income taxes. David Koch was a candidate for Vice President that year on a ticket headed by Edward Clark. They thought Ronald Reagan was too liberal. Today David Koch and his brother Charles have turned that 1980 extremism into mainstream Republican Party orthodoxy, by putting their fortune behind right-wing politicians and think tanks." Question was from host Joy Reid with MSNBC's The Reid Report, asked of Bernie Sanders. 2014-04-17. [http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/bernie-sanders-hypocritical-attack-koch-brothers] | ||
* "Even with Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party Undermines Liberty" By Ari Armstrong, assistant editor, The Objective Standard, 2012-01-09 [https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2012/01/even-with-gary-johnson-the-libertarian-party-undermines-liberty/]. | * "Even with Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party Undermines Liberty" By Ari Armstrong, assistant editor, The Objective Standard, 2012-01-09 [https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/2012/01/even-with-gary-johnson-the-libertarian-party-undermines-liberty/]. | ||