<The largest single theme of the Republican platform that attracted me, is that of personal responsibility. Freedom with responsibility for self is the only workable solution I know. Engineering social change or attempt to curtail another's behavior are dangerous things, and most likely will fail. > The statist, liberal-leaning Republicans are not 'freedom with responsibility' types. They are for state control of this that and the other.
Thurston, if you want freedom for real and responsibility for real, without some bludging Republican pork-barreler nicking off with your hard-earned dosh, then telling you how to run your own life, you should head for the Libertarians. libertarian.org
So, next election, don't bother choosing the privileged family dynasty you want to run your life for you. The Bush political dynasty beat the Gore political dynasty. Big deal. Vote for freedom and responsibility.
Voters should ask themselves whether they want Bush, Gore or themselves running their lives and spending their earnings.
Mqurice [and I thought I'd found an EXTREME right-wing discussion - what a pack of liberal lefties].
PS: From libertarian.org it says <While many argue over how consistently libertarian they were, most libertarians consider Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, George Washington and other Founding Fathers to be great libertarian heroes. Why? Because they had the courage to risk their "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor" by declaring their independence from a tyrannical government. They also had the wisdom to place explicit limits on their new government's power through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.>
Didn't Thomas Jefferson have slaves? Hmmm, not so libertarian. |
