By Josh Fitzgerald
It was finally time for the Libertarians to convene Thursday night, when they could organize their plan to win the 2012 election. Once the convention started, one would probably think that the Libertarians' keynote speaker would try to pump up the crowd in some way.
This didn’t happen. In fact, the keynote speaker was almost unbearably boring. With all the lengthy pauses and the monotone, it seemed like the speaker, Adam Chacksfield (right), was reading a bedtime story to the audience in an effort to lull them to sleep.
The speech's contents were very passionate and radical, but the way the information was conveyed detracted from his message.
"Just because Hitler was voted in doesn’t make the Holocaust OK,” he said.
What a powerful statement. But, again, nobody in the audience responded due to the way it was said. This speech set the table for the rest of the Libertarian Convention.
The audience was uninvolved, uninterested and bored. After a long and awkward pause, the proposed platform was not discussed, but nevertheless ultimately accepted.
Unlike the Green Party -- where it just seemed like everybody enthusiastically agreed with the platform which inspired no discussion -- the audience simply did not care.
Also, the Libertarian Party ended up not nominating a presidential candidate, thus proving that the Libertarian Convention was, unfortunately, a waste of time. The entire convention was 32 minutes long, with 20 minutes being the keynote address.
In the end, the Libertarian Party won't be represented in the general election.
Nobody seemed to care.
Photo by Sarah Tomkinson
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