Obama... Man Were We All Fooled...

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steven787 said:

TheRealMafoo said:

steven787 said:

Here are some reasons why neither party supports that.  ("life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" from the Declaration of Independence which is not a legal document in the US anyway)

Life:

Republicans: War and Death Penalty

Democrats: Abortion and Death Penalty

 

Liberty:

Republicans: Disregard for privacy and jurisprudence, supporting censorship in all media.

Democrats: Supporting censorship in some forms of media.

 

"Pursuit of Happiness" (Traditionally property from Locke's work)

Republicans: Devalue your money by spending running huge defecits.  This is why prices shot up and home prices collapsed (when a bank has a loan out and money is worth less, than they lose money because the interest rate is lower than real world inflation)

Democrats: Raise corporate taxes (raising retail prices) and taxes on the rich.

 

Neither party is innocent.

 

I am not a member of either party, I am a Libertarian.

 

I was too! Until last week.  I'm a registered Dem as soon as I get my new Voter's registration card.  (I still usally voted Dem).

Neither party is anywhere close to Libertarian and there are several reasons why I changed.

1. Pragmatism.  Ideology is great, but Libertarianism doesn't really benefit me.  Libertarian Utopia will never happen because people like and do screw eachother over too much.

2. Republicans are scary with all their war and market interference in a bad way.

3. Democrats will reduce the deficit (by breaking campaign promises, but it's for the best), work on fixing medical care, market interference in a good way, energy, environment, abortion, gay rights, etc. etc. etc.

4. Tired of being a young non-comformer, comforming by trying to be a non-comformer who comforms with non-comformity.

 

I vote Republican, because the government is great at taking away my financial freedoms, yet they suck at taking away my personal ones.

Sadly, all Republicans did the last 8 years is try and take away both. I still believe that's more to do with personnel then the party philosophy.

I really wish Ron Paul had won the republican ticket, kind of sad that we have gotten to the state as a country, where the only candidate who gets it is considered crazy.