The LNC and its Executive Director adopted a new reporting format, graph-free. However, looking at “sustaining” members:
Total “sustaining” members
January: 16,237
February: 15,710
March: 15,168
Down: 1069 in two months
New “sustaining” members — These numbers are actually respectably good
January: 339
February: 240
March: 215
Renewed
January: 774
February: 567
March: 422
Lapsed/Dropped/Dead — These numbers are unusually high
January: 1,207
February: 1,334
March: 1,179
The new reporting format does not show monthly totals more than three months back.
Ayn Rand didn’t oppose “political action.” She opposed the existence of any organization or movement dedicated to advancing ideas in any way similar to hers that didn’t also acknowledge her as All-Being, Supreme Mistress of Time, Space, Dimension, and Philosophy on every subject and in every respect (including instances where her off-the-cuff statements conflicted with the implications of her elaborated philosophy).
She wasn’t opposed to political action. She actively endorsed and supported Republican candidate such as Nixon, Goldwater, Reagan and others.
Of course, Ayn Rand was a declared opponent of the Libertarian Party, and called on her followers not to support the Libertarian Party, because she was opposed to political action.
I couldn’t he happier about this news. Libertarianism is cult of Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand was a racist and said homosexuals are disgusting and against nature. It’s time the Green party steps up to take the role of America’s largest third party
That format infuriates me and I hope it’s a one-off supplemental to the Membership Report. As is, it is deliberately stripped of information. And I wonder about the validity of the little that remains. Particularly the signature membership totals, which jumped by 76,000 last month because, for some reason, there were supposedly a whole bunch of records which were not in Raiser’s Edge.
How long had the LNC been using Raiser’s Edge? It looks like since late 2004 to me, but I could be wrong. That signature membership number has been published continuously since July 2005 and there was no sudden drop by 76,000 at any point along the way. So are they reaching back to 2004 or earlier to add back 76,000 signature members which, for some reason, never made the transition? If that’s the case, it’s been 19 years since those records were current, and many of those people would have joined in the years and decades prior to that. How many of those people are even still alive? Was there any attempt made to look for duplicates? In April 2017 and January 2018 they did a list purge of deceased people that cleared 15,500 names, which was more than 10% of the March 2017 total. Did they do that for those 76,000?
Forget disagreements on political strategy and ideology. I’m at the point where I don’t even trust the MC to report accurate data.