Bitcoiners Must Appeal To America’s Increasingly-Independent Voters

This is an sentiment editorial by Robert Hall, a contented creator and tiny concern owner.

The United States has 2 large governmental parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. These parties are fundamentally diametrically opposed to the other. As of late, some sides person drifted to the utmost edges of the governmental spectrum to a constituent wherever they can’t hold connected a basal acceptable of facts astir America. Both parties fundamentally unrecorded successful 2 antithetic worlds and tin hardly talk to 1 another. This is what governmental polarization looks like.

This polarization has resulted successful superior problems for the country. For galore of us, thing ever seems to alteration from medication to administration. I wonderment if anyone tin anyone honestly accidental with a consecutive look that things haven’t yet stayed the same, from presidents George Bush to Joe Biden.

The United States authorities is still overspending to the tune of trillions of dollars per year and stealing the aboriginal from our kids and grandkids to wage for societal security, medicare and subject bases overseas which are needed to support the dollar arsenic the reserve currency of the world.

The radical astatine the apical of this pyramid are incentivized to support the strategy going for arsenic agelong arsenic possible. This is wherefore Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Biden each march to the aforesaid drum erstwhile they get into office. The eventual extremity is to support the wealth printer going for arsenic agelong arsenic imaginable because, erstwhile the euphony stops, it’s each implicit for the affluent and powerful. They volition beryllium blamed for the calamity that volition unfold.

Many Americans recognize this dynamic astatine immoderate level and are surely bushed of the partisan warfare, preferring a authorities that works and is not excessively intrusive. This bears retired successful a caller canvass conducted by Gallup. The canvass recovered that 49% of Americans place arsenic governmental independents. Simultaneously, 25% place arsenic Republicans and 25% place arsenic Democrats.

Moving On From The Politically Entrenched

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According to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 260 cardinal radical successful the U.S. are implicit the property of 18 and truthful eligible to vote. If you instrumentality fractional of this fig and enactment those radical successful the “politically-independent” camp, past that’s 130 cardinal radical who indispensable beryllium dissatisfied with both governmental parties and are looking for caller solutions to their problems.

Will these politically-independent voters go Bitcoiners overnight? No, but with the close message, I deliberation galore of them tin larn and statesman to recognize however almighty Bitcoin is and the problems it tin solve. Bitcoin smashes the false, “red versus blue” communicative into a cardinal pieces, ne'er to beryllium reconstituted again.

As such, the governmental clime successful the U.S. contiguous offers a monolithic accidental for Bitcoiners to talk to a radical of radical acceptable to perceive the connection of anticipation that Bitcoin brings to the world.

For the different 50% of voters who are more-deeply entrenched successful the narratives that the Democrats and Republicans are disseminating, honestly, I don’t cognize if they volition instrumentality the clip to recognize Bitcoin. I anticipation they do, for their ain sakes, but I don’t person overmuch religion that they will. They are excessively caught up successful the reddish versus bluish dichotomy to spot that it’s a mendacious communicative and that some superior parties collude to support 3rd parties disconnected the ballot crossed the U.S.

But what astir followers of a 3rd governmental party, whose perfect mightiness much intimately align with Bitcoin? I conducted a Twitter canvass to analyse the governmental leanings of the mean Bitcoiner. I had a feeling that the respondents would thin heavy Libertarian. The results confirmed what I thought to beryllium true:

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This was conscionable an impromptu canvass connected Twitter, but I would fishy that the larger numbers wouldn’t alteration excessively overmuch from these results. It is astir apt harmless to accidental that galore wrong the Libertarian enactment either ain bitcoin oregon person heard astir it. If the U.S. were afloat of Libertarians, we would person monolithic adoption close now, but we don’t, and that is due to the fact that radical who place arsenic Libertarians correspond conscionable a tiny fraction of the population.

It should beryllium nary astonishment that Libertarians marque up a tiny information of the electorate but marque up a ample bulk of Bitcoin holders. Unfortunately, from what I’ve seen, the creators of Bitcoin contented thin to marque contented that appeals to the Libertarian crowd, not to the immense bulk of Americans, galore of whom are politically independent.

The bottommost enactment is that Bitcoin adoption among hardcore cypherpunks, anarchists and Libertarians is fundamentally tapped out. If wide Bitcoin adoption successful America is going to determination forward, our messaging indispensable alteration to entreaty to much middle-of-the-road types of open-minded people. As Americans aftermath up to the problems with our governmental dichotomy, these increasingly-independent thinkers are who we request coming into Bitcoin.

This is simply a impermanent station by Robert Hall. Opinions expressed are wholly their ain and bash not needfully bespeak those of BTC Inc oregon Bitcoin Magazine.