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In reply to the discussion: Are those who defend President Obama's every single move, sincere? [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)I'm in favor of single payer, on several threads here I've mentioned that. Do I pass? Or am I still a suspected libertarian because I abhor the erosion of civil rights by politicians of any political party?
Tell you what. Give me a good reason why I shouldn't just ignore you? Because this has been an insulting challenge. Let me highlight some of my other statements before you challenge them. I became aware of a disease that was decimating gay men when a friend of mine's brother died. They called it the Grip back in those days, and I thought that was wrong. It wasn't until after he died that they called it AIDS. I lived in California then, and back then used to go to the midnight showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Balboa. Real good foundation of Libertarianism right?
This has been a farce, and while I've disagreed with you before, I used to have a modicum of respect for you. However that modicum of respect has been diminished to the point where it would be uncomfortable to say that I was in the same party as you were. My first election I voted for Dukakis, who did you vote for?
The first election I was ever really aware of was Carter/Reagan in 1980. Dad told me he voted for Carter. Dad even groaned and said we'd lost the election four years later when Reagan did that youth and inexperience line.
But that's fine, you can suspect me of being a libertarian and challenge my beliefs. In the end, my fears are liable to come true, and we'll end up with a Republican Senate and House. But then guys like you won't smell the coffee then either, you'll stay with the asinine policy of hugging the millstone as it drags us down, and then we'll have Rand Paul in the White House. I have been steadily arguing against that, but on that sad day you'll probably blame me for wishing it on us.
I would say more, but then you'd win and my post would be hidden, and you could whine and complain to skinner that I am secretly some troll and get me banned too. Is that the party we've come to? Where not only do we accuse those who disagree with us as trolls and libertarian plants, but we gin up evidence to get them banned?
Now you see why my respect for you would read lower only if there were numbers on the dial that read less than zero.