so i haven't updated since july, and i have no idea why that is. i mean, i read this thing every day. my friends list is still my homepage, at least on firefox (safari gets suicide girls). so let's see
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I think you're right about the Republican Party. I mean, I'm a Republican-or I would be, if the Republicans were still Republican. Instead, they want to spend as much money the government doesn't have as the Democrats do: I just don't see much difference between (and I'm making these numbers up) Obama wanting to spend $10 trillion and McCain wanting to spend $9 trillion. It's a sad state of affairs when the party that best describes my (and a lot of former Republicans') political views is the Libertarian Party, which used to just be the crazy paranoids who wouldn't pay income tax.
And I've thought for a long time that a two-party system does us no favors, so I'm probably going to vote for the LP candidate, Bob Barr, in the hope that they get enough of the popular vote to be on all the ballots next time-a good size chunk of his campaign funds have had to go to getting him on the ballot in all 50. Either that, or I'm gonna write in my dad's name. I'd write in mine, but I'm not 35 yet.
I fall into the same frequent reader, infrequent poster group. I check lj multiple times a day. It's like having a slew of forums on different subjects accessible at one time.
"also, when did socialism become a bad thing, and anti-american thing? apparently it's not a bad thing when it helps the rich."
Socialism has always helped the rich and powerful, and hurt everybody else. The key fact is that socialism punishes people who make money (ie, the productive), not people who already have the money and power. That's why, in practice, socialism always results in a permanent underclass, dependent on government and denied the ability to move up, lorded over by a complacent elite that pretends to have compassion for them. And of course, this effect is even more obvious under communism (which is just socialism cranked up to 11).
And of course it's anti-American because it runs absolutely counter to the American dream. You know, the whole "Pursuit of happiness/Land of Opportunity/Individual liberty/Anybody can build a better life here if they work for it" thing.
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And I've thought for a long time that a two-party system does us no favors, so I'm probably going to vote for the LP candidate, Bob Barr, in the hope that they get enough of the popular vote to be on all the ballots next time-a good size chunk of his campaign funds have had to go to getting him on the ballot in all 50. Either that, or I'm gonna write in my dad's name. I'd write in mine, but I'm not 35 yet.
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Socialism has always helped the rich and powerful, and hurt everybody else. The key fact is that socialism punishes people who make money (ie, the productive), not people who already have the money and power. That's why, in practice, socialism always results in a permanent underclass, dependent on government and denied the ability to move up, lorded over by a complacent elite that pretends to have compassion for them. And of course, this effect is even more obvious under communism (which is just socialism cranked up to 11).
And of course it's anti-American because it runs absolutely counter to the American dream. You know, the whole "Pursuit of happiness/Land of Opportunity/Individual liberty/Anybody can build a better life here if they work for it" thing.
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