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In reply to the discussion: Ron Paul: The Only Presidential Candidate Telling Important Truths [View all]sendero
(28,552 posts).. ARE identical on every issue that matters to me. That doesn't mean they are completely identical, but even if you take out the "matters to me" qualifier there really is not much difference.
Yes, the Dems will extend unemployment longer, they will stave off "austerity" a while longer but at the end of the day, for all of the policies that put us in this position, the cozy relationship with banksters, the willingness to engage in pointless military action, and on and on and on, there really is no discernable difference.
I am not young, but please do not assume that young people are getting it wrong. It is older people who are living the memory of what being a Democrat USED to mean that are not seeing clearly IMHO.
All that said, all of the enticing ideas proposed by libertarians are washed away in a single torrent tidal wave of economic policy madness that would result in one corporation owning the world in a couple of decades. No thanks.