Larson looks forward to unlocking ultimate libertarian achievement

CATLETT, VIRGINIA — Nathan Larson, candidate in the Virginia's 31st House of Delegates district election, 2017, today noted that, with the Libertarian Party of Virginia moving forward to censure or even expel him from the Party for his controversial statements against feminism, the feminist Establishment, and feminist-inspired policies, he is on the verge of unlocking the ultimate libertarian achievement.

"When you run as a Libertarian candidate, it's usually because you know you're too libertarian to prosper in the primaries for the Republican or Democratic parties," Larson noted. "It means that you're too much of a truth-teller about the harms of government intervention to fit in with that crowd.

"But when you actually get kicked out of the Libertarian Party for being too libertarian, and for being too outspoken about the societal dysfunctions that have been brought about by the state's misguided policies pushed by interest groups such as the feminists and femiservatives, that's when you've unlocked the ultimate libertarian achievement. At that point, where do you go from there?" Larson wondered. "What do you do next? It's almost as though I'm about to work myself out of a job.

"I'm reminded of the passage in Cato's Letter No. 33: 'There is a tradition concerning Alexander, that having penetrated to the Eastern Ocean, and ravaged as much of this world as he knew, he wept that there was never another world for him to conquer.' That's how I feel now.

"I'm reminded also of Milo Yiannopoulos who, having outgrown Breitbart News, finally pushed the envelope so far that it became too much for the Breitbart leadership to handle. They considered themselves politically incorrect, but he took it to the next level, one to which it simply wasn't given to them to follow. In the end, even Milo himself became bewildered by the magnitude of his achievement, to the point that he felt the need to backpedal and recant, but what had been said had been said, and could not be unsaid.

"What do you do once you have become so libertarian as to transcend even the Libertarian Party itself?" Larson repeated, still visibly grappling to fully comprehend all the implications of this new reality. "I'm reminded of a passage in Socialism, in which Mises' writes that 'in the case of the staunch statesman who is ready to die for his principles, man raises himself, as is given to few to do, to the highest peak of manhood, to complete union of will and deed. In his exclusive devotion to a single purpose which sets aside all other desires, thoughts and feelings, removes the instinct of self-preservation and makes him indifferent to pain and suffering, such a man forgets the world, and nothing remains except the thing to which he sacrifices himself and his life. Of such men it used to be said, according to the estimate set on their aims, that the spirit of the Lord moved them, or that they were possessed of the devil — so incomprehensible were their motives to the ordinary run of mankind.'

"The LPVA has become mostly inactive, to the point that they don't even have a newsletter anymore, in which they might otherwise publish the notice of expulsion," Larson noted. "So I suppose these goings-on will mostly remain our little secret. Nonetheless, now that I have reached the highest rank of libertarianism through an achievement perhaps unrivaled in the history of the Party, it remains for me now to always be seeking new horizons to journey toward, new heights to ascend to. In life, whenever we achieve our goals, even in the case of those successes that are beyond what we ever anticipated would be possible, there is never time to rest on our laurels; always we set our sights higher.

"I regret that the LPVA State Central Committee is composed mostly of weaklings, lacking the strength to stand up to the feminist lobby. The whole point of breaking away from the two-party system was to be able to speak freely and give the voters a libertarian choice. Through this expulsion, they show the limits of how far they are willing to go in defense of liberty.

"It now becomes evident that the LP is more of a controlled opposition than a truly independent party offering the voters a meaningful third choice," Larson noted. "Whenever the risk arises that an LP candidate will speak truths that it is forbidden to say, or put forward a platform that truly threatens the Establishment, forces from within and from without the Party will move to ensure that individual is, ironically enough, stripped of the 'Libertarian' designation.

"But the true insignia of libertarianism does not appear on the ballot, but in our words and actions," Larson noted. "In what we do every day, we show whether we have what it takes to uphold our values under pressure, or whether the burden is too much for us to handle. And so I soldier on."