Say what you will, but we now have a Libertarian as Speaker of the House.
Maybe I just have lower standards for politicians - but I'm kinda pleased about this.
Will it make any difference - I don't know - probably not. Seems its all bad news lately.
But I'll take what I can get.
We now have a person with strong free-market views 3rd in line for the Presidency!
Ha!
Will it make any difference - I don't know - probably not. Seems its all bad news lately.
But I'll take what I can get.
We now have a person with strong free-market views 3rd in line for the Presidency!
Ha!
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The outcome though is when you make public confession it's an admission of self-conviction as in convicted not as in having convictions.
The rest is just would be could be should be with a large dose of dubious hope.
Never use the definitions of the other side. Redefining is their major weapon against you.
Being endorsed by the left means they expect the deal making to continue which means they see no sacred ground beneath that individual. i would say the same in the other direction IF they had anything to defend. They used to but they all left us.
The key give away was "I don't think. Had you said I don't believe or I don't judge them or I am sure that....different store. I don't think is not a conclusion and most of the time is an escape hatch cop out. Judge yourself its conscience not mine.
You get no peace of conscience from any other than your own conscience sounds like you are trying to justify your choice and failing badly. So get behind me. minus Zero you get no converts here;
Moral Philosophy 101 is a great tool for those that have the balls to use it.
But just to be clear - I don't equate voting-your-conscious with supporting the Socialist Left.
I just think you are failing to oppose them.
No candidate will ever be all your looking for. Does that mean you should never vote?
Many OBJ's would have trouble voting for a Libertarian. Hell, some OBJ's would have serious trouble voting for some other OBJ's.
But if a Libertarian had a real chance of winning I would enthusiastically support him/her.
Even if I profoundly disagree with them on Foreign Policy.
Does that mean I'm voting for evil?
The more you think the two are the same - the more your argument makes sense.
But I don't think Republicans and Democrats are "practically the same." I see a vast difference between the two.
They're both politicians - hence liars and thieves - but only one seeks to actively enslave me.
The Tea Party movement has been around for many years, but coalesced somewhat starting about 2008 or 09.
In its early form, it was very libertarian, but has since splintered and now has many groups using the name "Tea Party," and some of them are what is called "social conservative," meaning supporting restrictions on personal liberty even while inconsistently calling for "obeying the Constitution" and cutting taxes.
Voting for an alleged "lesser of two evils" is still voting for evil.
If you want to help, how about endorsing Instant Runoff Voting? Thank you.
Wasn't it Milton Friedman who called himself "a small r republican"?
Yes, I remember Ryan's saying, some years ago, that he had been influenced by Ayn Rand's writing, but Alan Greenspan also said that.
I was asking at a library several weeks ago for some of her books and was told they were all checked out!
The librarian told me every time there was a Republican debate, her name would come up and there would be a rush on her work.
But even when Republicans win elections, we citizens and taxpayers keep losing.
Taxes rise, governments grow, wars increase, and voters keep getting suckered.
If you have any evidence Paul Ryan is pro-freedom or pro-free-market, I'd love to see it. Thank you.
As an OBJ - a staunch advocate of reason - I am an idealist of the first order.
One of my most basic beliefs is that
"Whenever you figure something out you must act on it. Nothing will be OK until you do."
Pretty Idealistic, no?
Well, I figured out that:
- my guy can't win right now, and
- one of these other two guys WILL win, and
- one of them is much worse than the other (at least in MY judgment), so...
...how can I fail to work against the greater evil?
My responsibility as an Idealist is to resist oppression - not throw up my hands, take my ball and go home.
But that's just my take on it.
Good health!
Just the frustration of dealing with "lesser" intellects, I guess.
Not me.
From what I've seen the Average Man is not average and extraordinary people are all around us.
As for the freedoms of other countries, all I can say is Sweeeet.
One is not diminished by another's success.
But I also have to ask - who were the "banksters" and what was done to them?
(Somehow I doubt there were many politicians among those brought to "justice.")
A little voice says I should leave this alone, but I am so often wrong that I have to know - what personal liberties do they have in Peru and Iceland that we don't have here?
How can I not be? I can add to 18.4 Trillion!
The propaganda is ascribing to the Tea Party any agenda beyond fiscal conservancy.
It's all about the money.
I agree. It is true that, in the long run, the Republicans are taking deeper into socialism as well, but because they are trying to fool their conservative base they do not charge full speed into it like the Democrats are itching to do anytime they get a opening.
P.S. I was gifted a bottle of small batch 16 yr. Black Maple Hill ... This conversation calls for a drink.
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