On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 23:09:52 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:
Gunner Asch on Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:35:14 -0700
typed in alt.survival the following:
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 13:48:31 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:
On 8/11/2013 12:23 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 11:07:30 -0600, rbowman
wrote:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
Strange. There seem to be a lot of "Libertarians" who seem to
believe otherwise. Or at least seem to believe that if they could
only get their guy elected President - He could fix everything. By
Executive Order if necessary, apparently.
LP members specialize in believing at least three impossible things before
breakfast. Do you thing the Democrats and Republicans are any different? Do
you think a Republican president in 2016 will fix anything? Do you think the
Tea Party contingent, most of whom don't really know the history of their
beloved Constitution, would fix anything if they came to power? Have those
dirty, commie progressives accomplished much?
I've watched too many swings of the pendulum. One of the better professors
in one of my college physics classes was into interesting demonstrations.
For one he constructed a pendulum from a bowling ball suspended from about a
20' wire attached to an eye in the ceiling of the lecture hall. He held the
ball firmly against his chin, let it go, and stood immobile. Of course, the
ball did not knock him on his ass on its return, much to the disappointment
of the class. A pendulum only swings back and forth within defined
constraints and left to its own devices will eventually stop at its
equilibrium point.
Conservatives would like to reach out, grab the ball, and hold it stationary
but it always slips out of their fingers. Progressives would like to speed
the pendulum up but their random pushes never in crease the amplitude to get
it beyond the range of isochronism.
and you seem to not understand the difference between small (L)
libertarians and those that belong to the Libertarian Party.
The difference is rather vast..and is almost as wide as the difference
between the Left and the Right.
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I suppose Libertarians with a small "l" are the true individuals who
believe in freedom and liberty so much that they don't want to belong to
any group because a big organized group will always *******ize the
ideals that caused the formation of said group. Being free is hard. ^_^
TDD
True indeed. Ive followed the Libertarian Party for decades as many
of their bleeves echo mine. Frankly however...its been Dope First,
Political Freedom a distant second, and has largely been composed of
every wierdo, wackjob and oddball that were 120 degrees out, from
the wierdos, wackjobs and oddballs on the Left.
There are a growing number of people with (small L) Libertarian
leanings in the Republican party..but so far..the Republican Party is
still controlled by the Rinos/weak sisters and Blue Bloods on the East
Coast. And they are what are holding the GOP back. They have to
go.
I suspect that the Tea Party will finally take control of the GOP..but
it will take another decade or two.
The TEA party has done more in the last four years to influence
the GOP and national politics, than the Libertarians have accomplished
in the last twenty.
You'll note, the TEA party got the full force of the Feds turned
against them. I've not heard any such attention being paid to the
Libertarian Party.
Ayup. Good work too!
Say...you guys seen this article yet?
http://www.captainsjournal.com/2013/...surgency-cops/
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""Almost all liberal behavioral tropes track the impotent rage of small
children. Thus, for example, there is also the popular tactic of
repeating some stupid, meaningless phrase a billion times" Arms for
hostages, arms for hostages, arms for hostages, it's just about sex, just
about sex, just about sex, dumb,dumb, money in politics,money in
politics, Enron, Enron, Enron. Nothing repeated with mind-numbing
frequency in all major news outlets will not be believed by some members
of the populace. It is the permanence of evil; you can't stop it." (Ann
Coulter)