Libercontrarian

Crushed between the wheels of capitalism and big government.

Changing Parties

I'm a party-free kind of guy right now. I was a Libertarian, but have officially changed my party affiliation from that tribe of loser-savants to (I) for Independent. The Losertarian Party lost me when they suggested in the most recent issue of the Losertarian Paper that the United States Government engineered 9/11, that the buildings were control-detonated, and that unwieldy, bloated bueracracy somehow managed to gain enough competence to fake out the entire population of the world, who watched every second of it on TV.

Never mind that I saw the airliners crash into those buildings with my own eyes. Nevermind that Osama Bin Laden later accepted credit for this noble and humane deed. Nevermind that the actions of every one of the terrorists were documented by many non-government bodies, it's the Republican's fault!

How the hell can George Bush, with his remarkable incompetence and world-class stupidity, get all this stuff done? How has he found time to blow up some buildings, start a war with a backward-but-peaceful nation, deflect a couple of hurricanes to Kill Black People, and invade Iraq, directly causing the deaths of 300,000 Iraqi children, all while presiding over the "worst economy in 70 years?" Or is it really Dick Cheney making some kind of a pact with The Devil [muaaahh-haaa-haaa-haaa!!] in order to Shaft The Working Class?

Since I gave up being a Republican when I started to realize that the UberKapitalism Crowd (Kapitalizm Uber Alles) would sell your Grammy down the river for $.25, and the Democrats are simply Marxists (haven't met one yet that wouldn't dry-hump a Stalin statue if no one were looking), I was hoping that the Libertarian Party would be the voice of reason.

It's not. They are merely Republicans who want to smoke pot, and Marxists that want anarchy, not Socialism.

So, I'm out. Buh-bye. See-ya!

Maybe I should become a Democrat, and work tirelessly to change the party from the inside... ah, crap, I tried that for 30 years with the Republicans, and it didn't work.

posted by: underwhelmed at April 01, 2006 18:47 | link | comments (12) |

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#1  02 April 2006 - 07:07

 

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Anonymous

#2  02 April 2006 - 12:18

 

My name is Ralph Shnelvar and I'm a Colorado Libertarian.

I wish you would stay in the Libertarian Party and balance the loonies with your ability to reason.

We're not all conspiracy nut cases.

If there were more people like you then, well, there would be more people like you.

Anonymous

#3  04 April 2006 - 08:38

 

Sorry, but I left the capital-L Libertarians on 9/12. The loonies were always there but I generally agreed with the party on more issues and principles than with the major parties. However, I never agreed with the Libs on foreign affairs and, even when I originally joined the party, I refused to sign their statement certifying "I do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force as a means of achieving political or social goals."

As Felix Frankfurter once said, "It simply is not true that war never settles anything."

Gunner

#4  05 April 2006 - 21:30

 

What Ralph said. (assuming this isn't an Apeil Fools prank post)

You tried to change the Republicans from within, but there are so few active Libertarians, you would have a much better chance there. There are a lot of libertarians, but few actual party activists. Hell, I wound up on the state board of directors pretty much by just showing up. The Libertarian Party can be what you make it.

Anonymous

#5  06 April 2006 - 11:47

 

I think we should start a new libertarian party called the "New Libertarian Party", and when people ask what the "New" means, we answer "It means we aren't FRIKKEN' INSANE."

Oh, and we keep the loonies out. Somehow.

Anonymous

#6  06 April 2006 - 15:15

 

Yeah, keep the loonies out.

Good one. How the hell are we going to do that with ANY political party?

Anonymous

#7  08 April 2006 - 16:53

 

I don't think political parties are of any use (well duh; read potential use), more than half the time it is all about the party and not the country (OK maybe a lot more than half the time). Today, we don't need them anymore than we need unions, the world has changed.

Maybe some day we will see a political movement made up of individuals acting on mutual interest (hopefully the survival and strengthening of the country and the protection of individual rights) and not party organized events, demonstrations, and talking points.

...and maybe someday my cat will produce a brilliant melody whilst thrashing about on a Piano with small rodent in paw.

The individual is doomed, DOOMED, we might as well all move to China and enroll ourself in one of their super secret special camps for those that occasionally make the mistake of entertaining the notion that rational thought is a plus.

Anonymous

#8  09 April 2006 - 15:48

 

You have no chance of changing things outside of a party. If you are a righty, the Republican Party is where you need to be. If not, the Democrats are you party. But I warn you - the Dems have far more nutjobs and fruitpies that the Republicans ever will.

Anonymous

#9  10 April 2006 - 09:49

 

Well, the towers did not come down by the methods and strategy given to us by the official story, that we can be sure of.
The powers that are obviously working to eliminate our liberty had far greater cause to commit the acts of 911 than Al Qa'ida did.

Anonymous

#10  11 April 2006 - 13:59

 

Ralph,

I never was a captial L libertarian but I did flirt with the idea here in Wisconsin. They lost me when a fellow called me a Nazi for suggesting that the local land use regulations might be a good idea.

If that guy were a minority .. well that would be one thing. He's not. Or if he is he's certainly a very loud minority.

Purge your ideologues, get practical and you'll gain traction. Or stay pure and ideological and the Libs will have no long-term effect.

Myself - I've come to terms with Niven's observation: Libertarianism is a path not a destination. Sad but sadly true.

Anonymous

#11  14 April 2006 - 06:22

 

What's pure libertarian about the LP?

I don't expect to ever see it. After all, it's just another institution and institutions are blind and dumb.

Anonymous

#12  25 April 2006 - 06:21

 

2001 terror strikes were enginnered by people with high-level access to, or control over, the Executive branch of our govt, not any 'bloated bureaucracy' or Tyrant George himself. You should thank your lucky stars that anything like a national party is trying to support thr truth movement about the attaks.

To respond: the viewing public saw ONE of the strikes, and the one at the pent still has no released footage WHATSOEVER. As to the WTC collapses, one full-speed viewing of them won't tell the story that FIRE ENGINEERS have tried to point out: they cannot have fallen the way the media said (and the 911 commission parroted). Facts: the UNDERGROUND steel supports were liquified by heat far exceding burning jet fuel for MANY DAYS after the fact; demolitions experts see MANY details of evidence for controlled demolition in scrutinizing video; the NY fire engineers called the destruction of evidence at the sight and the paltry explanation for the collapse of wtc1,2, AND 7 a "half-baked farce" (do a search ).

You know what I saw that day? NOTHING. With more than a half-hour's warning about an incoming hijacked plane (an HOUR after WTC2), there was still NOT ONE air defense craft over Washington DC. FAA & NORAD knew each plane was hijacked before any of them hit anything, and yet there was NOT ONE SINGLE AIRCRAFT TO DEFEND OR INTERCEPT ANYTHING AT ANY TIME THAT MORNING. This cannot be explained away as incompetence or 'poor communication'. How many different choppercam angles did we get that morning and NOT ONE air defense craft of any descrption was ANYWHERE NEAR??? WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

Anonymous

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