Actually, since the race is literally too close to call at this moment, there is a decided chance that it could happen.
I know i'm voting for him, as is my whole family.
Is it really? I thought Obama was ahead.
How do you know how "Your whole family" is voting?
My dad is voting for Romney as the "Lesser of two evils" as well. Honestly, I don't see the logic of that in NYS. If Romney wins New York, he won like Reagan did anyway. Obama has New York. Now, that's no reason not to vote for Romney, in my opinion, but by similar logic I'd say it is not useless to vote for Gary Johnson even though he has no chance.
I'm honestly not any happier with conservative foreign policy anymore than I am with liberal fiscal policy (Social policy matters a little less to me at the Presidential level since most control of social policies is left to the states, although if we had an extreme social conservative like Rick Santorum, or on the other hand a liberal who vocally supported, say, Federal hate speech laws and banning guns, that would factor into my decision. Considering I don't believe Romney will do anything about abortion, its pretty much a wash between the two on social policy.) As such, I have no reason to care who wins other than the fact that if Romney wins, he is the Republican candidate again in 2016, guaranteed (Unless he sucks so bad that the Democrats take their version of a Reaganesque victory in 2016, and even then, Carter was still the Democrat nominee
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I'm honestly open to be convinced that someone of my political persuasion should want Romney on the throne instead of Obama, especially considering the fact that it ruins any chance of someone better than Romney getting elected in 2016 (Again, given my political philosophy.)
Aw, worried that someone will have to read two of your posts to know that instead of just one? Or just reading your signature, for that matter?
My signature doesn't really explicitly say "I don't support Obama" does it?
I also self-identify as libertarian. And you're right, there's no reason why you have to adopt the planks of the political group you most identify with! It's much better to have independent theories, and to sculpt them as you get wiser
This could be an interesting conversation, and I'd also kind of like to explain to you WHY my position on the death penalty. PM coming.
Yes, it does. On a purely semantic level, that is what it means to say "I am a libertarian". It doesn't mean that you agree with the ideas that most libertarians agree with, sure, but it does mean that you affirm that your ideas are authentically libertarian despite those differences. You can't say "I'm a libetarian, except for X"- particularly given that with yourself, it's not so much "X" as "A through Z"- because that means you are not a libertarian, you're just somebody who supports a lot of the same policies that libertarians support.
I guess it depends on how you define "Libertarian." I think we have way too many laws, regulations, and taxes. I think there are a lot of crimes that shouldn't be considered crimes, and I think some crimes that should be considered crimes are punished too harshly, or just plain incorrectly (Our response to nonviolent theft should ALWAYS be having the criminal compensate the victim in some way and NEVER "Lock them up and screw the victim" which is really what we do now.) However, when we get to the realm of murder, rape, and the like, my only real concern is putting innocent people to death. In my mind, libertarianism is not an excuse for criminals to get lighter sentences. But then again, that's because that's not the reason I became libertarian-minded (At least "ish") in the first place.
Honestly, in America, YOU would be the one getting laughed at for claiming to be "Libertarian" considering your opposition to property rights and capitalism. We don't consider that "Libertarian" here. I'm fine with the fact that defintions are different in Europe than they are here, but that goes both ways. Few people in the US would claim someone like Ron Paul or Gary Johnson is not libertarian. In fact, that's exactly why CelticEmpire was kind of like "What do you mean Ron Paul isn't a libertarian" when someone insinuated such. In America, that would be considered crazy talk. In Europe, on the other hand, libertarianism is more associated with the left. Neither definition is "Wrong" any more so than your usage of British words in general would be considered "Wrong." I mean TECHNICALLY you're speaking Queen's English while I'm speaking American English. The fact that we can understand each other MOST of the time hardly means we speak the same language
