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Listen, it may surprise you to know that I actually agree with you when you are talking about control of government, liberty, big government, etc...But like I said I prefer to work within the system to change it, where as you seem to be telling me that you are standing outside the door screaming at the moon. That doesn't work.
j-mac
I'm not working outside the system, I'm still voting for candidates which best echo my own political philosophy. In fact, that's the way in which our current system needs to work. Voting the lesser of two evils only leaves you with evil; and each successive administration the evil will just ratchet up. If I were working outside the system, I'd be working to bring it down. But I cannot support parties which have demonstrated an unwillingness to engage in small, constrained, responsible government. The Republocrats have demonstrated time and time again that they endorse large expansion of government, not constrained and reasonable government. If their political ideology does not line up with mine; why would I vote for it? If one of the main parties ever does come in line with my own platforms, I'll support them. But I don't see that as ever happening. They have skewed the system so much that they have essentially secured their power. It will merely bounce between R and D and each side knows that they just have to bide their time, run their mouths, run some obstructionist policies, and sooner or later they'll be back in charge. If you want to control the parties, you have to threaten their power base. It's the only way to make them come back in line.