Whisp wrote:
here's my take on the two-party system:
1. republicans suck. first of all i disagree with their views of restricting and controlling personal freedoms. republicans are the party of big government when it comes to trying to control everyone's personal lives. the bible is too much of an influence on the way republicans think. if you know me, you know that i am not a big fan of the bible or the sheep mentality that goes along with it. i am entirely against republican's anti-stem cell research views. they're generally anti-science, pro-religion, anti-peace, pro-war, anti-environment, pro-guns, pro-hunting, anti-change, anti-womens right, anti-any-minority's rights, pro-bible, and they think the universe centers around them. basically republicans are the polar opposite of who i am, and i tend to not like them at all.
Not all Repulicans suck. I really like Ron Paul. He's more of a Libertarian tho. Ron Paul is of course pro-peace, anti-war, he's pro-everyone's right so that includes women and minorities. he is pro-gun tho. most importantly he's pro-hemp lol He is the one person from the 2 parties I would've voted for if he won the primary.
Whisp wrote:
2. democrats have the right idea. but they take a beating from idiots like sean hannity, rush limbaugh, talk radio, Fox news and the biased right-wing media ( I hate Fox news so f'ing bad ), chain emails, preachers, the uneducated, etc. etc. the list goes on. these people have made "liberal" be a bad word even though its not. they've made people wrongly think democrats = socialists. i think barack obama is one of the greatest thinkers of our time, and i'm excited to see what he can accomplish when he is undoubtedly elected president.
Weird thing about right-wing media, they support liberal Republicans. Fox news has been very disrespectful to Ron Paul who is probably the most conservative Republican. Maybe they don't like him cuz he doesn't support Bush's interventionism policy. But every other candidate in the Republican primary is way more liberal than Ron Paul. Well, as far as economics is concerned. Ron Paul was one of the biggest opponents to the bail-out.
And um... Socialism... That's a pretty broad term. You could call anything the govt does to regulate or control the economy socialism. The rightwings use socialism just cuz it has a bad connotation, I agree. Republican's idea to ban abortion and gay marriage and the war on drugs is all "social interventionism" which is a form of socialism. The party with the least socialism is probably the Libertarian party.
Whisp wrote:
3. third parties-- good idea, but currently hopeless. i like libertarianism particularly. but the reason it won't work is because people often vote not FOR a party but AGAINST a party. if people vote AGAINST republicans for instance, why spread their votes around? vote for whichever non-republican party you think has the best chance. this mindset brings us to a two-party system. and it's not going to change until people start voting FOR someone.
3rd parties aren't hopeless. It's worked before. Just look what happened to the Republican party. That use to be a 3rd party. The 2 main parties were Whig and Democratic when the Republicans started out and wtf happened to Whig?! So maybe the way for a 3rd party to succeed is to become one of the 2 parties. I would really like to see the Republican party fall on its ass and become a 3rd party and Libertarian become the new 2nd party.
Besides you can't vote against! Penn says so!
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Here's my idea for voting 3rd party in this election:
I live in MN. MN has been known to vote dem in pres elections. The polls show Obama has such a good lead that McCain has given up on MN and Obama thinks he's got it locked. So since Obama's a sure bet in MN, I'm going to vote for Bob Barr because it'll help the Libertarian Party gain a little bit of recognition.
I urge everyone who is in a "locked" blue state or red state to pick a 3rd party candidate to vote for. This will help them gain recognition by upping their %. If you're in a battlefield state, then fine vote for the lesser of 2 evils. It might actually matter then.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Every vote does count. Show how you're not a sheep and make an informed decision, don't just vote for the lesser of 2 evils.
You might think, it doesn't matter, they won't win anyway. But it does matter, the higher percentage of votes a 3rd party gets this year will help them in the future.
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