A chapter of the Young Americans for Liberty club is trying to get started this semester at Sinclair Community College.
Charter Club President Joshua Hail said the club is still in the formation process.
“We’ve only had one meeting at this point, so we’re still in the forming status,” Hail said. “At this point, we have eight members and we need two more for official recognition from the school; which hopefully by the time our next meeting comes around, we hope to obtain those members.”
The mission statement of Young Americans for Liberty is “to identify, educate, train and mobilize youth activists committed to ‘winning on principle.’ Our goal is to cast the leaders of tomorrow and reclaim the policies, candidates and direction of our government.”
Hail wants the student body to know that there are multiple options when it comes to politics.
“I started it because I felt that the student body and the campus needs to know that we have other options besides just Democrat or Republican, that the political spectrum isn’t just black and white,” Hail said.
Daniel Bloomingdale, Charter Vice President of the forming club said it could give people the chance to educate themselves on other political parties.
“[The club] could be really informative and [will] really give people a real chance to explore their actual political views, because in current society all we have are either your right or your left but really there’s a lot in between. There’s a lot of Centralists, there’s a lot of Libertarians — there’s a lot of people that aren’t voting for candidates they really like,” Bloomingdale said.
The club has no official affiliation with a specific political party.
“We’re not Republican, we’re not Democrat, we’re not Libertarian; we’re just a group of individuals trying to educate people and inform people. We don’t support any candidates or anything like [that],” Hail said.
The club meets the last Monday of every month. Contact Young Americans for Liberty at SinclairsYAL@yahoo.com, for more information.