Barr to Announce Libertarian White House Bid
Former U.S. congressman Bob Barr of Georgia is set to announce he will run for president on the Libertarian Party ticket.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos."
Kodos: It’s true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It’s a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.
Man: He’s right; this is a two-party system.
Homer: Well, I believe I’ll vote for a third-party candidate.
Kang: Go ahead! Throw your vote away!
- From The Simpsons
Citizens of the United States:
Stop hedging your votes. Free yourself from the tyranny of our prisoner's dilemma voting system. You have been deceived into believing that voting for Republicans and Democrats is the only way to ensure that your vote "counts."
The truth is that Voting for a third-party candidate, or god forbid an independent, is not a wasted vote.
I mean I'm no mathematician but, the likelihood of two candidates accurately representing the interests of 300,000,000 people seems rather unlikely to me.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Confused Libertarians? Or good old fashion factionalism?
The RNC website says:
President Bush (a Republican) believes that marriage is the union between one man and one woman. He supports a Federal Marriage Amendment.
And yet...
The Log Cabin Republicans say:
Log Cabin Republicans is the nation's largest organization of Republicans who support fairness, freedom, and equality for gay and lesbian Americans. Log Cabin has state and local chapters nationwide, full-time staff in California and Washington, DC, a federal political action committee, and state political action committees.
There are a variety of ways of looking at this situation.
First, I commend those free thinking Log Cabin Republicans who, upon consideration of the issues, truly feel that despite the Republican position on gay marriage, the Republican platform best represents their views.
On the other hand, those factional Log Cabiners who blindly support the Republican party because "that's what their parents were" represent the very fears articulated in the Federalist Papers.
One can only hope that there are more "Working from inside the Party—educating other Republicans about gay and lesbian issues—is the most effective way to gain new Republican allies for equality" Log Cabiners, than there are "daddy was a Republican, so I am too" Log Cabiners.
For my part, I would refer the Log Cabiners here.
-Publius MM
President Bush (a Republican) believes that marriage is the union between one man and one woman. He supports a Federal Marriage Amendment.
And yet...
The Log Cabin Republicans say:
Log Cabin Republicans is the nation's largest organization of Republicans who support fairness, freedom, and equality for gay and lesbian Americans. Log Cabin has state and local chapters nationwide, full-time staff in California and Washington, DC, a federal political action committee, and state political action committees.
There are a variety of ways of looking at this situation.
First, I commend those free thinking Log Cabin Republicans who, upon consideration of the issues, truly feel that despite the Republican position on gay marriage, the Republican platform best represents their views.
On the other hand, those factional Log Cabiners who blindly support the Republican party because "that's what their parents were" represent the very fears articulated in the Federalist Papers.
One can only hope that there are more "Working from inside the Party—educating other Republicans about gay and lesbian issues—is the most effective way to gain new Republican allies for equality" Log Cabiners, than there are "daddy was a Republican, so I am too" Log Cabiners.
For my part, I would refer the Log Cabiners here.
-Publius MM
Factionalism
fac·tion 1 (f
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n)
kshn)n.
1. A group of persons forming a cohesive, usually contentious minority within a larger group.
2. Conflict within an organization or nation; internal dissension: "Our own beloved country . . . is now afflicted with faction and civil war" Abraham Lincoln.
Relevance: I am a (insert political party affiliation) because my parents are (insert political party affiliation).
Relevance: I am a (insert political party affiliation) because my parents are (insert political party affiliation).
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Correcting the mistakes which we have inevitably fallen into...
"To balance a large state or society Usays hee, whether monarchical or republican, on general laws, is a work of so great difficulty, that no human genius, however comprehensive, is able, by the mere dint of reason and reflection, to effect it. The judgments of many must unite in the work; experience must guide their labor; time must bring it to perfection, and the feeling of inconveniences must correct the mistakes which they INEVITABLY fall into in their first trials and experiments."
-The Federalist Papers No. 85
-The Federalist Papers No. 85
No. 1
To the people of the United States:
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the misguidance of the subsisting American government, you are called upon to deliberate on the current condition the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of our country, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of a nation in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on fear and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the misguidance of the subsisting American government, you are called upon to deliberate on the current condition the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of our country, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of a nation in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on fear and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind.
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