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Of course, anybody that thinks crony capitalism doesn't happen on the left is blind. I'm pretty sure you guys will go crazy over this since I know he's not popular with you guys but I agree with Noam Chomsky on the fact that we have less a two party system than a one bussiness party system.
Hey, it is still America, you are free to think that anyone has it right no matter how foolish that person is. But, what do you think the America would look like in a Noam Chomsky world?
Proportional system. If 10% of voters are Libertarians then they get 10% of the seats in Congress. As of now, with a two party system, 10% of the population has to join one of the two major parties. The decision is to get some voice in matters or no voice. Libertarians are a great example, a lot of times their economic issues aligns with Conservatives and a lot of times their social issues aligns with Democrats. In a proportional system you would have 10% of Congress go to Libertarians. Those Libertarians would vote with Republicans on economic issues and Democrats on social issues where they disagree. Those 10% Libertarians are being accurately represented. I personally prefer that system.
Libertarians would do well to focus on the sane. Then maybe their views would gain traction.
They are not by law but they are by the structure of the first past the post. Wouldn't you agree for example that if you voted Perot instead of Republican it's possible that you not only voted for a guy that never had the support to win, but you also didn't vote for a party that could win and represented a lot of your views? That's why everybody always talks about voting in the "lesser of two evils". Neither party represents fully it's voters.
Actually, I did vote for Perot. It is a shame that his message was clouded by the sheer nuttery of things like his VP choice.
Sure, post the video, I don't care. I said that you can't judge a movement by one person. I don't care if the intentionally spit or not. The Cleaver recoiled as if hit with something and turns to the guy. The sides of his mouth are covered by his hands. It's obvious that the Fox News clip is more about trying to prove no spitting took place than trying to analyze the clip. What that clip tells me is that guy is a jerk and I'm sure you or I would want to punch him in the face, doesn't matter if the spit came out intentionally or not.
This is what I find interesting by what you're doing here. You're saying that the MSM intentionally misled viewers therefore it's fine for "your side" to mislead viewers. I disagree with your view that there's some poor guy out that unjustly attacked by the evil MSM but apparently you condone propaganda because you support it when your side uses it.
Now listen, I remember being at Tea Party events when someone with Arian, or repugnant views showed up, and you know what happened?? They were surrounded, and ushered out of the event. You can not say that the group doesn't at least condone these anti semitic, or in some cases racist views when they do nothing at all to refute them.
If that guy actually in his passion let spittle fly that hit Cleaver when he passed, then he should have restrained himself better, but to paint it as intentional as the liberal MSM did in order to paint the Tea Party as some racist mob is every bit as offensive and wrong.
j-mac