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To: ild who wrote (52143)	1/31/2006 11:42:43 AM
From: ild	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

Date: Tue Jan 31 2006 07:17 trotsky (Bleuler@orphaned libertarians) ID#248269: Copyright © 2002 trotsky/Kitco Inc. All rights reserved that sure sounds like it's time for a third party to shake things up a bit. i've always wondered how it comes that in the country that has set THE historic example for a state ( or rather a union of states ) conceived primarily in liberty, the ideals of liberty have apparently no political representation. as things stand at present, American citizens have the choice between one form of socialism and another. one has a somewhat fascistic bent, the other is more openly left-leaning. both work primarily for the aggrandizement and enlargement of the State. so what happened to the libertarians and 'old conservatives', the fiercely independent people who disdained government and war? if they still exist, as this poll suggests, why have they no voice in politics? one answer is probably that the election laws in the US are skewed to protect the incumbent two party system. it is far easier for a new party to gain votes and seats in the Russian Duma than in the US Congress ( iow, the alleged 'democratic deficits' in Russia are quite well balanced by similar deficits in the US system ) . another is that the ancillary vested interests, such as those represented by the 25,000 lobbyists scurrying about in DC and dispensing bribes , are similarly not interested in change. no large US corporation wants a truly free market. what they want are political favors. no US bank wants to change the fraudulent fiat money system and cut off the source of its obscene inflation-induced profits. in short, there will be no change, unless there's a revolt. those in favor of liberty should set aside their petty differences and unite against the establishment. currently there are countless small splinter parties around, none of which stand the ghost of a chance in elections. one can always hope, but i don't think it will happen. i find it far MORE likely that the opposite will happen, namely the institution of a police state in which dissent gets ultimately outlawed. that is the political tendency of the day - whether it can or will be reversed is highly doubtful, especially if, as seems likely, another high profile terrorist attack occurs at some point. now that 10's of thousands of new terrorists have been recruited across the Muslim world as a result of the Iraq war, it's only a question of time after all.