No, the Republican haven't done anything to merit support. I'm not even going to try. But:
Democrats are
- No longer just a lesser evil. They are actual evil. They have taken race whoring to epic proportions. Race relations have done nothing but go down and it's been a clear Democrat strategy to accomplish that to get blacks to the polls to vote blue. That while they ramp up the electronic lynching of any black who tries not to be a Democrat to send a message to the rest of the blacks what will happen to them if they do the same
- Pushing the green new deal to get Marxism. The reality is we aren't technologically advanced enough yet to get off fossil fuels. Yet they want to spend trillions. And it's just a shallow marketing cover for Marxism. They are seriously pushing things like minimum income as "green"
- Turning our inner cities into violent turf. You can't even walk the streets anymore. Note too how even though there are NO Republicans involved in these inner city issues, Democrats try to use their own failures to draw votes
- Are just pushing endless Marxism, and for real. Not like the old days where they just ran as Marxists. They want single payer and government control over energy, financial services just to start
That while the Libertarian Party is now just a gag party
- Bob Barr, Gary Johnson and Gary Johnson? Three candidates in a row that weren't even libertarian
- Finally in 2020, we got Jo Jorgensen who is at least libertarian, but the Libertarian Party again had to prove it's just a gag party by picking Spike Cohen, the anarchist running mate of Vermin, a performance artist who wears a shoe as a hat and isn't even libertarian. The party can't be taken seriously at this point
I argued since circa 1990 thirty years ago that it really didn't matter if you didn't listen to the words and just looked at what they actually did. Now it matters. Not because the Republican have gotten any better, they haven't. But the Democrats have gone off the deep end. No more sticking our heads in the sand and pretending the parties are the same, they are not. And Democrats are to a point like despots and dictators that the have to be stopped.
Frankly if you can't vote Republican, at least vote for another third party until the Libertarian Party pulls its head out of its ass. Gone were the days of Harry Browne where we could vote for an actual libertarian. Badnarik wasn't bad either. But since then, it's sad
Libertarians are just republicans who are embarrassed to admit it anyway.
/Thread.
You think one moronic, ignorant comment ends the thread? LOL, of course you do, creep.
BTW, one Democrat after another has said that lame DNC talking point. You do ever come up with your own material or just keep parroting what other Democrats say?
LOL, just kidding, I know you only keep parroting what other Democrats say ...
You don't actually know what a libertarian is, do you? Be honest
It's true, and it invalidates your OP completely.
Well, no, it's not true. You're just equivocating. Libertarians are libertarians. Republicans are Republicans. Libertarians who vote Republican are just confused.
Real libertarians are about as common as Bigfoot and unicorns.
There's plenty of people who are, could be, would be, libertarians if they weren't hypnotized by the LO2E exploit. I've seen this, over and over again. When polled outside the context of an election we'd routinely see 15%-20% of eligible voters describe themselves as libertarian. On an issue by issue basis, they're right there with us. But when an election rolls around, most of them are frightened into voting for one of the majors. Kinda like what's going on with this thread.
The problem with libertarianism is that it implies that people will always do the right thing, and make choices that serve both their own interests and that of the public - don't shit where you eat stuff, but there are far too many people who are selfish and greedy, and quite frankly, don't give a shit, and that is why we, as a society, have to protect ourselves from these people.
I don't vote for Libertarians, Greens, or NDP. All for the same reason: They have no viable econoomic models. Neither do the Conservatives, at the moment. They want to duplicate American policies, and to the extent that the Harper government was able to do that, wages for workers stagnated, and middle class growth slowed, just like what happened to you.
But the Liberal Finance Minister's refusal to de-regulate Canadian banks in 1999, when Republicans in the House and Senate sent a veto-proof banking de-regulation Bill to Bill Clinton, saved our asses in 2008, when W's crashed the economy. And it's still saving our asses in this pandemic.
I spent 9 years as a banker, rising from the position of teller to one of the first female bank managers in Canada. I am well trained in financial analysis. Then I went into the legal trades, after taking night courses for a law clerk's degree. Started out in a one-man office with the lawyer, and a receptionist/secretary at Eglinton and Avenue Road, ending up on the corner of King & Bay in one of the 7 Sister Bay Street law firms, working on deals which change the economies of nations. The Windsor/Detroit truck crossing, the Chrysler sale to Fiat, and a whole lot of really interesting stuff that isn't public knowledge, and is covered under NDA's.
I've only worked on the fringes of all of this super big stuff, basically doing technical work and "due diligence". This is fact checking for legal opinions. When your lawyer says "I hereby certify that you have good and valid title to", it's based on the investigations, research and government records that someone like me, has completed. I know how government works, to a decent degree, and where to look for buried bones.
I have no faith in human nature or liberatarianism
