I just watched a very inspiring vid Kokesh delivered on YT. (linked below)
Below it, I commented:
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Assuming you take this precise message to the debate-stage in 2020, you better have at least one or two "shining examples" of how a local anarchoVol community works. ...or you will be wasting an opportunity we probably will never see again. The general population will just tune you out... NO ONE TRIES TO SELL SOMETHING WITHOUT A WORKING PROTOTYPE! Why do libertarians ignore this basic marketing tenet? I have been asking this question since 1989 after having run into a stonewall of resistance from people in Nevada (at that point, America's most libertarian state, bar none) while, as his Campaign CoOrdinator there, trying to sell Ron Paul for President '88 and the LP platform.
The Free State Project somewhat understands it, but never organized a Free Town Project to help sell it. Thus, stagnation since 2003 (when they decided on NH) The Libertarian Party of the USA? ssshhhhh. CoIntelPro at work; I get it. I guess every ExBoard of the state affiliates, too. But the LP is so small, this viseGrip can be so easily be broken. We saw what Howard Stern did in 20 minutes at the 1994 state convention in NY!
LP-Texas has Patrick Smith running for governor on your exact platform NOW. There are 254 counties in Texas (a state which already prohibits county commissioners from legislating!)... some 50 of them with populations of 5k or less. Pick some targets with which to flood the "Freedom!" book. Quite an inexpensive mailing to one post office at the county seat in most cases). I think the "Big Easy" flood is great, but what if, simultaneously we actually found a county where 80% of the habs passionately embrace the book?! Not an unreasonable prospect for a people who chose to live in such remote areas with very little "establishment-- created" distractions effecting them! That is where to begin manifesting this domino effect you are promoting.
"Show me, don't tell me." So when you are on that debate stage you can SHOW America something to which we are aspiring with "localization". Presently, it's almost too abstract for even individualist-oriented libertarians to grasp, no less trained parrots, monkeys, jackAsses, elephants, sheople, chickens and ostrich living under the delusional spell and promises of communism/fascism. On the local level of governance (or no gov cooperation), I have some unanswered questions.... which frankly, CAN'T BE ANSWERED BY POLI-SCI THEORISTS in a bubble. There are far too many variables for us to deal with in the abstract "what if?" world. The actual practice of AnarchoVol'ism is a REQUIREMENT to get people out of your book and into reality. AnarchoForko needs to be put into effect somewhere 52 weeks a year, not just one week in Mexico. Yes?
How about a little common sense marketing infusion into the campaign? This also gives amazing opportunity to simultaneously grow state affiliates with/for your effort rather than degenerating into a "cult of personality" hanging solely on your every move. I assume you want this to be a Freedom Train... not a Kokesh Karavan, yes? ...something that will sustain long after you retire. Let's not see a repeat of the Ron Paul Revolution where it died when he left (or was thrown off) the stage. (or was undermined by his campaign staff, twice).
Why do we see zero evidence of any Kokesh for noPresident 2020 campaign at the state level after you visit and leave? Do you have ANY Campaign Directors at the state level? Are there any vids posted by any of them? I'd love to see local activism going on when you aren't there "workin' it." I am in Michigan; you were just here at their convention. Who is your Campaign Director for this state? LCharles14@yahoo.com Anytime. Anyone. I will help the guy in the Lansing area.
LCharles14@yahoo.com Anyone. Anytime
