Dutch Libertarian Party joining the elections, running on a Ron Paul-like platform

[MrDauven]

Last monday the Dutch Libertarian Party had a mystery event.
This event was to project "bankrupt", "The government is the problem, not the solution", "vote List 14, Libertarian party" and the party logo on the Dutch Central Bank.

Here are pictures of the event.
We also hit the newspapers. We got the full frontpage and the party leader was on the 3rd page aswell in the Parool.

 

[RabbitMan]

Looks like you are having fun! That is half the battle!

 

[MrDauven]

Looks like you are having fun! That is half the battle!

A research agency polled on which party small business owners would vote.
The Libertarian Party got 14% of the votes.

Business owners are really liking us.
A lot of people on twitter are now asking who the Libertarian party is, because they got us as the 1# party in the voting profilers.
We're gaining more and more attention.

 

[MrDauven]

Here is a video of our action at the Dutch Central Bank.

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

Epic video. Make sure to keep us posted how it goes.

FOR LIBERTY!

 

[luctor-et-emergo]

A research agency polled on which party small business owners would vote.
A lot of people on twitter are now asking who the Libertarian party is, because they got us as the 1# party in the voting profilers.
We're gaining more and more attention.

First of all, congratulations with the mystery event, I think it turned out great. Front page of 'Het Parool', not bad.

I did the 'stemwijzer' test too, and got LP with two differences, on non important issues. A friend and a couple of family members also did the test, all of them got LP.
Keep up the good work, if there's anything I could help with, shoot me a message.

 

[randomname]

http://nl2012.election-maps.appspot.com/results/embed?hl=nl

They got about 4100 votes, the other 99.9% of voters wanted socialism

 

[fatjohn]

Yes the only plus point is that the last time they participated they only got 2800 votes or so. It's a sad result after the increase in attention on libertarianism worldwide mainly due to RP. I do hope they find the spirit to go on though. Main problem is name recognition. Everybody in the Netherlands knows about the ridiculous "Party for the animals" which results in 2 percent of the vote, which is come to think of it batshit crazy. I hope most of those are actually protest votes.

 

[Sujan]

People want socialism apparently because they do not want to have any responsibilities, people in general are highly allergic to ‘responsibilities’. In that sense the message from socialist parties is very popular, namely that government will take care of all, you won’t have to do anything, the promises of the welfare state etc etc.

The libertarian party says exactly the opposite, the government is not going to do this, is not going to do that….this scares people, ‘I should do that myself? No way!’ take care of me!

This the reason why the message of libertarianism is very hard to sell, although is works far better than socialism.