The fastest growing politcial party in Virginia and one that most Americans still largely are unfamiliar has nominated its candidate for the 2020 Presidential Election this November.
The Libertarian Party has nominated Dr. Jo Jorgensen to run on the Libertarian ticket and did so in historic fashion earlier this month. While the other two major politcial parties appear in disarray over nominating conventions and alternative methods of nominations for Congressional races throughout much of the country, the Libertarian Party held an online nominating convention. This is what can happen when a party does not have layer upon layer of committee structure and burdensome red tape and can work in an efficient manner even in times like the pandemic. The online convention format undertaken by the Libertarian Party is the first ever for any political party in the United States.
Delegates to the Libertarian Convention met virtually from all over the country and were afforded the opportunity to learn more about not only the party platform but fabout all the potential nominees. Dr. Jorgensen holds a doctorate and currently is a lecturer at Clemson Univesity. Jorgensen attended both Baylor University and Southern Methodist University in Texas before earning her Ph.D from Clemson in Industrial/Organizational Psychology in 2002.
The countless era of big government and even bigger government programs coupled with the current pandemic crisis has elevated the Libertarian Party nationally. Long overlooked and often condemned by the other two parties as the "bastard stepchild" of the American political experience, the continued failures of the Democratic and Republican Parties to set realistic budgets and service debt has ultimately created an unsustainable spending programs contrinuting to massive deficits.
The word "deficit" is no longer a dirty word to either Demcoratic or Republican leaders in Washington. The second "stimulus" package will simply provide another example of spending programs that the governement will employ without having the ability to pay for or any expectation of servicing.
With over 23 trillion in debt and even more in unfunded liabilities, there appears little dicsussion any longer regarding debt and deficits in Washington. All those discussions over unfunded mandates and entitlement programs left the conversation when Paul Ryan (R) left Congress.
In Virginia the Libertarian Party continues to grow. The LPVA has often become the scorn of media and political pundits with like agendas given at times the Libertarian candidate in Virginia has been depicted as the "spoiler" in previous election cycles. Robert Sarvis (L) was a factor that many believed delivered both a U.S. Senate seat and a Governorship in Virginia to the Democratic Party.
Parties often like to blame others for its own failures at the polls.
Voters are constantly fed the narratives that the two major political parties are "mainstream". This narrative implies any other organization like the Libertarians are outside the mainstream however most Libertarians consider themselves often taken for granted by the Republican Party of Virginia and moving forward such action very well may be their undoing.
Sarvis in his race for Virginia Governor back in 2013 earned 6.5% which constituted the largest percentage ever in such a race in Virginia. The arguments from the establishment will always be that Libertarian candidates "pull" support "away" from the other two parties but this view merely exposes the underbelly of the entrenched nature of Virginia politics.
As long as the Republican Party refuses to address the morality over liberty driven social conservative nature of many of its nominees and candidates, Libertarians will run for offices and challenge Republicans for every single vote. Moderate and Constitutional Republicans often share more of the same values as Libertarians than they do social conservatives in Virginia. As it stands today, should the Republicans nominate State Senator Amanda Chase (R) for Governor one could certainly expect a Libertarian candidate in the 2021 Gubernatorial Race in Virginia.
Robert Sarvis stated as far back as 2012 :
"I realized that the Republican Party, at least in Virginia, in the current era, is not a good vehicle for liberty candidates. Republicans are very strident on personal issues. When they talk about liberty, they don't mean any personal issues, there is very little respect for personal autonomy."
Jorgensen on the issues can be found here:
https://joj2020.com/issues-jo-jorgensen/
@JoforLiberty
https://www.facebook.com/TurnVARedAgain/
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