I vote Libertarian not because I have written the country off, but the Dems & Repubs don't represent me. A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil.
Why don't I vote for the Libertarians?
They're crazier than Mayor Daley.
Any group that advocates legalizing heroin, prostitution, and the destruction of society as we know it is at best, a folly against sense in real terms. Economic reality is that taxes are going to have to be levied to provide some level of social services - and that means that the core of the LP's suggestions are, well, more pie in the sky.
What gets me is the near by the numbers use of Marx's suggestions for destroying capitalist civilization by the LP folks - destroy faith and religion. Destroy tradition. Destroy government. Somehow trust in the grand new religion that says everything's OK.
Like Marx, the LP folk expect me to accept their statements as absolute dogma - on faith that somehow the world will be better once heroin is legal and whores are dancing in the street. We are to accept on faith that the LP's suggestions will result in a better tomorrow - there is no track record, even on the smallest of scale, that can be extrapolated to a macro level.
Marx himself pretty much sums up the benefit that the same LP reactionary folk have in being in common with the socialist workers parties of the world in opposing the war in Iraq and similar things: "In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things."
The more I've looked into the LP over the years, the more I've wondered how much of it's simply a front for more destructive things.
