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To: JME_FAN

I voted for 3 (out of the 5) libertarians on my ballot this election, and I don’t care if anyone thinks it’s a vote for a democrat. Republicans and in particular RINOs don’t deserve blanket/blind votes and people who give it to them only deserve more of the uniparty mess we always get


6 posted on 10/31/2018 6:58:44 AM PDT by z3n
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To: z3n
I think it is your right to vote for anyone you want. There are only two parties who will win on election day in 99.9% of elections...democrats or republicans. If you truly believe there is no difference have at it. Don't act shocked when Pelosi and Shummer are doing their thing!!!
10 posted on 10/31/2018 7:12:56 AM PDT by ontap
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To: z3n

The only thing you libertarian clowns ensure is that we get more socialism.

A serious examination of libertarian principles reveals a doctrine that is essentially the same in its practical results as is liberalism - total moral chaos.

Libertarians have no problem with abortion, or same-sex marriage, or prostitution, or drug use, or any other of the societal failings that corrupt a culture - and send it into swift decline because of an institutionalized indifference to moral rot.

For all practical purposes, the libertarian viewpoint is no different than the utopian imaginings of liberals, that a nation can self govern without moral restraints.

The best quote I may ever use is that from Sir Edmund Burke, attributed to his Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, in 1791. See: The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 4, pp. 51–52 (1899):

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites,—in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity,—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption,—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”


14 posted on 10/31/2018 7:27:20 AM PDT by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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