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Edited on Sat Sep-27-08 10:44 AM by kenny blankenship
I'll just say vote your conscience. You're Libertarians and like the rest of us you're blessed with the right in this country to cast a vote for whomever you want, to form a party with whomever you agree. Be Libertarians if that's your conviction. If you're worried about what the country will go through at the hands of the two major parties in the next 4 years, and obviously it will still be entirely in the hands of the two major parties who will do much that you Libertarians will disagree with, I'd say simply that four years from now you will probably have a country worth salvaging after Barack Obama is President, but if John McCain is President, you probably won't. John McCain is a dangerously impractical man, consumed by slights to his honor, which he sees coming from every corner of the world, and he's obsessed with settling old scores. Under a McCain Presidency, the disastrous course of the Bush Administration would continue under the same inflexible assumptions, and it would continue to destroy our national strength. McCain fully shares Bush's delusions of omnipotence and his ideas that America can and should be the arbiter of every country's affairs, international or internal. War with Iran is virtually certain with McCain, and though McCain would sell this to the public as the "War to End All Wars" we would find our "ally" in Iraq suddenly attacking our rear and cutting off our line of retreat. Iran is a country of 70 odd million people most of them young. We have absolutely no chance of marching in and imposing a new regime on the Iranian people-none at all. Our own military might revolt at such an order. Far from ending all wars, invading Iran would multiply the number of our enemies as the rubber band of our empire is overdrawn and snaps. Under McCain, since the Perpetual War on Unseen Enemies is guaranteed to continue and may well intensify, the erosion of civil liberties of the Bush years is certain to take on permament status. John McCain is a paranoid who requires the apparatus of an authoritarian state to cover his limitless sense of vulnerability. He will require all of your money to carry out his fight for what he sees as our lost national honor and glory. In order to feel himself prepared to be aggressive abroad, he will be even more repressive at home. If I were a Libertarian I would view him as the worst threat going to what makes -or once made- this country uniquely hospitable to a free life.
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