<div dir="auto">It would replace Daniel's motion</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 15, 2017 11:48 AM, "Whitney Bilyeu" <<a href="mailto:whitneycb76@gmail.com">whitneycb76@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Can this be incorporated with Daniel's motion?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Arvin Vohra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:votevohra@gmail.com" target="_blank">votevohra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all -<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br>Initial recommendation:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Each social media post should at least mention one large cut in government</div><div>2. Each social media post should mention at least one benefit of that cut.</div><div><br></div><div>This information can be included in comments of the post, not necessarily in the image.</div><span class="m_546498294291035622HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Arvin</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_546498294291035622m_-9031268906147526905gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Arvin Vohra<br><br><a href="http://www.VoteVohra.com" target="_blank">www.VoteVohra.com</a><br><a href="mailto:VoteVohra@gmail.com" target="_blank">VoteVohra@gmail.com</a><br><a href="tel:(301)%20320-3634" value="+13013203634" target="_blank">(301) 320-3634</a></div>
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