I have decided to vote straight Libertarian next go 'round.
I hate to do it, but it is necessary. Not that I think Libertarians will win anything, in fact I don't want them to win -- they're nuts.
But if they were to get, say 7 to 10 percent of the vote, both parties would be doing backflips thereafter to attract voters of that sentiment.
As it is, both parties spit on our rights and freedoms, and take turns sucking up to eachother's corporate and special interest groups, while we keep voting for one or another option in a creeping totalitarian double bind.
For example: anymore it isn't a question of whether or not your children will be brainwashed, just a question of how they will be brainwashed. The left will brainwash them "to end Hate" but the right will brainwash them "to foster Morality." But you know what? I don't want my daughter brainwashed, period.
Everything is an excuse for more laws of compulsion. Every little "problem" that comes up is "solved" by more laws and more militarized police and more intrusive government less and less freedom. Every commercial, every news story, every speech, always turns out to be just laying the groundwork for a Hegelian "synthesis" which always means less freedom.
Bush hands us little tokens, like eliminating the dividend tax, but then he gives all that money to the DOE, and the DOJ and DEA are meaner than ever! WTF?!?!? Hey great, he mentioned God while he stole my freedom, but a fetus still isn't a human. "Stroke of the pen, law of the land." DO SOMETHING, W!
I am not one that thinks Republicans orchestrated 9/11, but I damn sure see them using it now that it happened, and I don't like the way they are using it.
I understand Jim's expressed position about support for the Republicans -- and his about-face on W -- and agreed with it, tentatively, last election. But now I have to wonder if we "can recognize the face of evil" when we see its profile from the right, or just when we see it's left side.
We used to live in the United States of America, but what this administration is doing, with it's contempt for both the letter and meaning of the Constitution upon which this nation was founded, is a morally treasonous attempt to turn it into the "United Counties of the State of America."
I WANT MY FREEDOM BACK, and voting for either of the parties who consitently work to steal, subvert and undermine my freedom is the only REAL way to throw away my vote.
THE JUDGE WOULDN'T LET THE ATTORNEY ASK THE QUESTIONS! HE TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF TO PHRASE THEM AS HE SAW FIT!
"You cannot substitute your sense of justice, whatever that is, for your duty to follow the law."
Ban me forever for heresy, but this administration is a cruel joke on all of us who voted for it. And the punchline is that most of us will vote for it again. And -- well, I don't know wheter to laugh or cry.