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I’ll even take it a step further: when the choice
is between two piles of excrement, one only slightly less foul smelling
than the other, we do not have to pick one of them out of
some misguided sense of patriotic obligation. If the best the major
parties have to offer fall short of the principles you believe in,
then it is your patriotic duty to not vote for either one of them.
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In order for
there to be real change in the federal government, we would have
to drastically re-evaluate taxation and, ideally, abolish the IRS
and the Federal Reserve. We would have to stop thinking that it
is the government’s job to regulate the economy. We would have to
stop thinking that it is the job of the United States to police
the world, and withdraw our bullies--oops, I mean troops--from countries
that don’t want them there. We would have to stop accepting that
the leviathan devil’s stranglehold on our personal lives and choices
is "business as usual" and "for our own good."
In short, for there to be a real change in the federal government,
there would have to be a sea change of attitude in how people view
the role of government.
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So you see,
voting is an act of support. It is how we consent to and cooperate
with our government. When we vote for someone, we are agreeing
to give him certain powers over our lives. If that politician does
not share our values, then we become complicit in our own undoing.
We become agents of the very state whose policies are antithetical
to the cause of liberty. In other words, when we vote for someone
who is not an ideological peer, we are supporting and furthering
the cause of our own enslavement.
Don’t vote
for the lesser of two evils. Don’t fall for partisan rhetoric claiming
that Romney and Obama have different ideals because, where it really
counts, they do not. Instead, vote for someone who stands for what
you believe in. Write in a vote for Ron Paul. Or give your vote
to Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, who, ideologically speaking,
is the only Presidential candidate who deserves our support. Or
express your dissent by not voting at all. Anything is better
than voting for Obama or Romney. And the same can be said for most
of the other mainstream GOP/DFL choices, as well.
Yeah what she said.....
I’ll even take it a step further: when the choice
is between two piles of excrement, one only slightly less foul smelling
than the other, we do not have to pick one of them out of
some misguided sense of patriotic obligation. If the best the major
parties have to offer fall short of the principles you believe in,
then it is your patriotic duty to not vote for either one of them.
____________________________________________________________
In order for
there to be real change in the federal government, we would have
to drastically re-evaluate taxation and, ideally, abolish the IRS
and the Federal Reserve. We would have to stop thinking that it
is the government’s job to regulate the economy. We would have to
stop thinking that it is the job of the United States to police
the world, and withdraw our bullies--oops, I mean troops--from countries
that don’t want them there. We would have to stop accepting that
the leviathan devil’s stranglehold on our personal lives and choices
is "business as usual" and "for our own good."
In short, for there to be a real change in the federal government,
there would have to be a sea change of attitude in how people view
the role of government.
____________________________________________________________
So you see,
voting is an act of support. It is how we consent to and cooperate
with our government. When we vote for someone, we are agreeing
to give him certain powers over our lives. If that politician does
not share our values, then we become complicit in our own undoing.
We become agents of the very state whose policies are antithetical
to the cause of liberty. In other words, when we vote for someone
who is not an ideological peer, we are supporting and furthering
the cause of our own enslavement.
Don’t vote
for the lesser of two evils. Don’t fall for partisan rhetoric claiming
that Romney and Obama have different ideals because, where it really
counts, they do not. Instead, vote for someone who stands for what
you believe in. Write in a vote for Ron Paul. Or give your vote
to Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, who, ideologically speaking,
is the only Presidential candidate who deserves our support. Or
express your dissent by not voting at all. Anything is better
than voting for Obama or Romney. And the same can be said for most
of the other mainstream GOP/DFL choices, as well.
Yeah what she said.....
