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National Committee Sustaining Membership has fallen by more than half since 2000, reaching levels last seen in 1995.
Change is time-consuming. Change is demanding. Change is frightening. Sometimes, change is necessary.
The graph to the left shows National Party membership for 1998-2009.
Over the last decade, our National Party has lost more than half of its membership. We're back to totals we last had in 1995.
Every investor knows the refrain: Past results don't guarantee future performance. Smart investors know that badly run companies don't change by themselves. They change because someone changes them. Or they fail to change, until they cease to exist.
What do our past results predict? Where are we going? That's the red line. It shows where we will go if we keep on the way we've been going.
We face an existential crisis! If we do not change our course, by the middle of the decade the National Party will vanish.
If we don't want to end up where we are going, we have to stop going there.
We need new policies, new leadership and new approaches, or there will be no libertarian future.
We need to choose the directions in which we want to move.
We need to choose the right people to help us move in those directions. Real change is what our party needs.
Real change is why fine Libertarians from around the country, people not now on the National Committee, are running for our National Committee this year. Real change is why a few brave current LNC members, people not part of its governing majority, are running for re-election. |