Most libertarians are not easily swayed by guilt trips, especially by those that others try to place on us. This country is going to come up against a brick wall, no matter who is in the white house, because our economy is in the crapper, and our social debts are uncontrollable, and will break us eventually. Democrats, Republicans, it doesn't really much matter at this point. One of them will take us off the cliff at a little faster pace than the other.
Trying to convince libertarians that they must vote for someone whom they are ideologically opposed to, amounts to nothing besides emotional coercion. Play that game if you think you must, but play it with someone who is more easily swayed by emotional appeals.
I understand that the libertarian ideology compels those with that mindset to falsely
imagine that the standard alternatives of Democrat and Republican are
essentially the same, that it doesn't matter which of the two is elected, that the substantive result in their administration will be equivalent.
That, however, speaks to the power of ideology to rob people of their common sense, to in essence dumb one down.
This ideologically based
denial is necessary to allow the libertarian to vote for
a lost cause.
The facts of the matter is that Romney simply will not take us off a cliff at all, and that Obama has essentially
promised to take us off a cliff.
There really is
that much of a difference between the two candidates,
one of whom will win.
I am not a liberal, a Democrat, and I'm not a conservative, a Republican, and I'm not a libertarian or of any other wingish political persuasion; I have no ideological vesting in Romney, no ideological contempt for Obama -- I'm free to look at the matters of fact and make a decision that's in the best interest of America and my fellow
citizens.
It's important for readers who pass this way to understand that the more wingish the political ideology, be it liberal, libertarian, conservative, or to the left of liberal and the right conservative, the more it dumbs down those who succumb to it to the real and present obvious realities that
plain ol' common sense presents to the rest of us.
It is hugely important this election that Romney wins today.
The facts are all out there on the table, for all to see.
Presenting the damage Obama will do, that's merely the presentation of a fact.
If libertarians don't heed those facts, like the Perot's in 1992 and Greens in 2000, they most
certainly will come to self-heap coals of guilt on their own heads, for foolishly succumbing to their ideological mindset and voting Libertarian, thus taking votes away from Romney he needed to win, that condemns us with Obama, and America and their fellow Americans to great suffering under Obama, great suffering that simply will not happen under Romney, as Romney does not suffer the particular America-damaging ideological mindset that Obama does.
The only "guilt trip" libertarians will then be taking if they don't vote for Romney is one of their
own ideological making.