You really disappoint me with that crack about "delusional extremist whack-jobs".
So what exactly would you call Pat Buchanan? Sure, he challenges the status quo. So fucking what? Are you going to argue that i should listen to the Intelligent Design wankfucks because they "challenge the status quo" of the scientific community? Have you looked at the platforms of the Peace & Freedom and American Independent parties? Transcendental meditation vs. Jesus for everyone. Sign me up!
What I really wonder is: do you think that expecting some huge change as the result of continuing with corporate hegemony, an absolutely ruinous foreign policy, an illegal war, and a consequence-free environment for the administration who deceived us is something other than delusional?
Sure it's delusional. Who's expecting a huge change? I mean, i'd like to go back to the America we had before Bush. Is that expecting a huge change? I don't think it's asking for much at all.
I did not take you for a Paulite, especially given your current country of residence, given that China seems exactly the opposite of what Paul touts, but now all your angry ranting makes more sense. I'm tickled that you are inclined to listen to what the NAACP president has to say simply because it happens to support your candidate of choice, because i'm skeptical you'd give him the time of day otherwise (i know i wouldn't). Ron Paul is little more than the Howard Dean of `08. He's irrelevant, his integrity is vastly exaggerated, and in the end, libertarianism is just like every other political philosophy: full of promise, but bankrupt in practice. To paraphrase Pratchett, we don't have the wrong sort of politics, we have the wrong sort of people.
Electing Ron Paul won't effect "some huge change". The only thing that will effect huge change in this country is armed revolution, and Americans are way too comfortable and wealthy for that. Plus, revolution ain't what it used to be, due to our ever-increasingly complex societal infrastructure. Paving DC would be a good start, but i'm not going to hold my breath.
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So what exactly would you call Pat Buchanan? Sure, he challenges the status quo. So fucking what? Are you going to argue that i should listen to the Intelligent Design wankfucks because they "challenge the status quo" of the scientific community? Have you looked at the platforms of the Peace & Freedom and American Independent parties? Transcendental meditation vs. Jesus for everyone. Sign me up!
Sure it's delusional. Who's expecting a huge change? I mean, i'd like to go back to the America we had before Bush. Is that expecting a huge change? I don't think it's asking for much at all.
I did not take you for a Paulite, especially given your current country of residence, given that China seems exactly the opposite of what Paul touts, but now all your angry ranting makes more sense. I'm tickled that you are inclined to listen to what the NAACP president has to say simply because it happens to support your candidate of choice, because i'm skeptical you'd give him the time of day otherwise (i know i wouldn't). Ron Paul is little more than the Howard Dean of `08. He's irrelevant, his integrity is vastly exaggerated, and in the end, libertarianism is just like every other political philosophy: full of promise, but bankrupt in practice. To paraphrase Pratchett, we don't have the wrong sort of politics, we have the wrong sort of people.
Electing Ron Paul won't effect "some huge change". The only thing that will effect huge change in this country is armed revolution, and Americans are way too comfortable and wealthy for that. Plus, revolution ain't what it used to be, due to our ever-increasingly complex societal infrastructure. Paving DC would be a good start, but i'm not going to hold my breath.