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To: Jim Robinson
"The ONLY evil people in government today are those who circumvent the Constitution."

Well, that includes 100% of the Democrats. Vote them out!

Maybe not "circumventing", but Republicans are equally capable of violating the Constitution. I'll say they're somewhat less inclined (and maybe more inept at the task than their Democratic brethren).

Not 100% of the Democrats are evil and corrupt. Some of them - and there are a few, mostly at the local level - are sincerely following their own principles... and they are more often than not fiscally and philosophically conservative. Why don't they switch to Republican, and why are they Democratic to begin with? Mostly they're Democrat out of tradition, and never saw why a voter affiliation ever mattered.

Those few Democrats are from the 80% of the population that is neither extremist Republican or extremist Democratic. The pro-Republican sentiment echoed here and elsewhere represents perhaps only 10% of the sentiment nationwide, with rabid Democratic sentiments taking another 10% or so. THAT is the reason for voter apathy in this country: most Americans do not identify with either extreme, because they don't think their vote matters... or because they see Republicans and Democrats as two sides of the same coin.

And I'll end this post with a bold prediction: for the same reasons I mentioned above, the Libertarians are going to have MASSIVE success - as both a philosophy and a party - in the next ten to fifteen years. The Republicans are as stagnant as the Democrats... and Americans are starting to realize that now.

460 posted on 09/22/2002 6:27:28 PM PDT by Darth Sidious
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To: Darth Sidious
Hate to burst your bubble, but massive success? At what? Big dreaming?
461 posted on 09/22/2002 6:31:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Darth Sidious
First congratulations on you recent marriage. Second, Are you gonna vote Republican in the next few years? Third, May God continue to bless...
463 posted on 09/22/2002 6:40:00 PM PDT by bazbo
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