My thoughts (as posted in this thread with a slight edit for on-topicness
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=229020):
The Republicans aren't about liberty any more than the Democrats are, they just want a different piece of the People's Pie than the opposition does.
We're given a choice between one side infringing on our liberties and another side doing the same, just in different areas or ways. We get scare attempts crying about what the Democrats would do if they were in charge with all of the power the government has these days, one has to wonder if the people that make these arguments understand just who it was that gave the government that power they're so afraid of when the other side has it in the first place.
The other popular position is that we should try and influence or change one of the parties and vote for them rather than to abandon them as a whole and vote for the party that actually supports our beliefs based on each party's likelihood of winning becasue only the Repubs and the Dems have a chance at winning.
That's like telling your best friend to marry the chick that won't let him out of the house without her with him, makes him go to the church that she chooses, invades his privacy and snoops through his mail, listens to his phone calls and reads his e-mails just because she says she won't make him get rid of his guns because it's better than the bisexual chick that wants to spend all of his money while she doesn't work, won't let him hunt or hike and would make him get rid of his guns. To me, that's not a choice, that's a suicide pact with an idiot.
Me, I'll stay single as long as I have to in order to find the girl that respects the both of us enough to recognize that we're both free individuals in a partnership and values that as much as or above anything else. Fortunately enough for me, I’ve already found her, and even if she never agrees to marry me, I'd rather spend my time in a fruitless effort towards freedom than a successful endeavor of servitude.
When exercising the right to vote in this country became more about picking a winner than being active in the political process and making our voices heard, we started going downhill faster than any speedometer was capable of calculating, and the Democratic and Republican bookies are cashing in at the track and laughing all the way to the bank while we sit with our programs in hand like imbeciles with empty pockets cheering our horse on long after we’ve run out of money to make a bet.