[Lnc-business] Refocusing social media

[Arvin Vohra]

It would replace Daniel's motion

On Apr 15, 2017 11:48 AM, "Whitney Bilyeu" <whitneycb76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can this be incorporated with Daniel's motion?
>
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Arvin Vohra <votevohra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all -
>>
>> During the last years, I've been part of the social media growth of the
>> Libertarian Party. With John Jay Myers, I started the more aggressive
>> social media program, started Design for Liberty, and have worked alongside
>> many hard working volunteers. I'd like to share some thoughts on where we
>> need to go.
>>
>> Identity politics is a distraction. It has some short term popularity in
>> some areas, but it's a long term loss. The identity that some people
>> cherish are off putting to people with other identities (as shown by the
>> satanist post, or the religious backdrop which ignores that religion
>> doesn't matter that much to many people.) Any political party can use them,
>> and they are used to distract people from real issues.
>>
>> Virtue signalling is another distraction. Like identity politics, it's
>> something that any party can do, routinely  do, and use to distract people
>> from substance.
>>
>> Our focus, party wide, should be on cutting government to advancing
>> liberty. We need to drop the "Hey look how inclusive we are" business that
>> is more appropriate to a first grade classroom than to a party with a
>> serious mission. We need to drop the soft sell irrelevance that literally
>> any party could use (e.g. "Wouldn't it be cool if we won?"). Instead, we
>> need to explain what we will do when we win, and why that's good.
>>
>> We need to explain the benefits of free market education, military used
>> for defense only, ending gun free zones, ending the income tax, removing
>> border protections for big pharma, ending the TSA, legalizing all
>> victimless crimes, ending foreign aid to promote the sale of sovereign
>> territory, ending trade sanctions to spread free market culture, etc. The
>> amount of content is infinite.
>>
>> I believe that our social media, traditional media, and candidate
>> messaging should  be working to shift in these directions. I recommend
>> basing things on the Who's Driving strategy created by Carla Howell.
>>
>> This can be done with volunteers, paid designers, or some combination.
>> The issue is the direction, and the strategy must be completely clear and
>> explicit.
>>
>> Initial recommendation:
>>
>> 1. Each social media post should at least mention one large cut in
>> government
>> 2. Each social media post should mention at least one benefit of that cut.
>>
>> This information can be included in comments of the post, not necessarily
>> in the image.
>>
>> -Arvin
>>
>> --
>> Arvin Vohra
>>
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>> (301) 320-3634
>>
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