{"id":9385,"date":"2021-06-20T13:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T13:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/06\/20\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance\/135322\/"},"modified":"2021-06-20T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T13:06:04","slug":"the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Libertarian Party, born in Colorado 50 years ago, still seeks elusive mainstream acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-602221178-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/libertarian-party-rw-052221-01-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/libertarian-party-rw-052221-13-267x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance-2.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/libertarian-party-rw-052221-15-267x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance-3.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Libertarian01-560x315.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance-4.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AP100926085562-560x369.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance-5.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/libertarian-party-rw-052221-04-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance-6.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance-8.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/06\/20\/the-libertarian-party-born-in-colorado-50-years-ago-still-seeks-elusive-mainstream-acceptance\/135322\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United States\u2019 third-largest political party \u2014 what its main founder considered \u201cthe last, best hope for freedom in America\u201d \u2014 took root\u00a0a half-century ago in a living room in Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>The TV flickered on, David Nolan would later recall, as the then-28-year-old advertising executive and his wife gathered in their duplex with three friends in August 1971. They listened, aghast, as Republican President Richard Nixon announced plans to intervene in the economy in once-unthinkable ways to deal with inflation and high unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>In that moment, the five who were among a growing movement of people skeptical of government interference in personal and economic lives decided they needed a new political home. Within months, the Libertarian Party was born. And in August, the national party will gather in Colorado to commemorate the state\u2019s lesser-known role in its formation \u2014 and its present.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2021\/06\/20\/libertarian-party-50th-anniversary-colorado\/\">Read the rest of this story on DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States\u2019 third-largest political party \u2014 what its main founder considered \u201cthe last, best hope for freedom in America\u201d \u2014 took root\u00a0a half-century ago in a living room in Westminster. The TV flickered on, David Nolan would later recall, as the then-28-year-old advertising executive and his wife gathered in their duplex with three friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[407,6907,6857,224,5662,294,8337,5667,9,441,227,1,3,61,1736,2276],"tags":[2985,6909,6859,2802,5668,2872,8338,5673,3015,2805,4843],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}