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Voting is Black & White: The REAL 2 party system is Democrats & Repubublicans vs. Libertarians

dk — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:00:51 +0000

(blăk’ən-hwīt’, -wīt’) adj.

Expressing, recognizing, or based on two mutually exclusive sets of ideas or values: black-and-white categories; a black-and-white point of view.

In our two party system voting has become more black & white than ever in the past. It is called a two party system because all the power resides with the Democrats and the Republicans. Under this two party system the power of government has been and continues to expand quickly.

For over 40 years libertarians have been passing around The World’s Smallest Political Quiz. The quiz has ten questions on it that, when answered, are supposed to classify the quiz-taker as Libertarian, Left-Liberal, Centrist, Right-Conservative, or Statist.

In today’s political climate, having ten questions on the WORLD’S SMALLEST political quiz is overkill. Here is a political quiz that is ten times smaller than the Worlds Smallest Political Quiz:

Do you want more government? YES or NO

For a YES answer give yourself 1 point
For a NO answer give yourself 0 points

If you scored 1 or more points then you are a Democrat or a Republican. If you scored 0 points then you are a Libertarian.

Here’s another political quiz that is ten times smaller than the Worlds Smallest Political Quiz:

Do you want more taxes? YES or NO

For a YES answer give yourself 1 point
For a NO answer give yourself 0 points

If you scored 1 or more points then you are a Democrat or a Republican. If you scored 0 points then you are a Libertarian.

Another:

Do you want less freedom? YES or NO

For a YES answer give yourself 1 point
For a NO answer give yourself 0 points

If you scored 1 or more points then you are a Democrat or a Republican. If you scored 0 points then you are a Libertarian.

And so on, and so on, for a wide range of issues.

Sure, there are some basic differences between the Democrat and Republican parties but generally speaking, relative to libertarians, the Democrats and Republicans are about the same.

Libertarians choose Lawyer Barr as Presidential Candidate: Choice leaves a bad taste in the mouths of many libertarians

dk — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:14:39 +0000

The libertarians choose former U.S. attorney, Bob Barr, as their presidential candidate at the national convention today in Denver. As the results were displayed on the convention floor there were strong boos heard among from the anti-Barr contingent.

While Barr was making his acceptance speech, Jim Davidson was organizing a “Boston tea Party” where delegates would choose an alternative presidential candidate. Within minutes Davidson had printed several hundred flyers and was distributing them to the delegates. When I asked delegates about their plans to attend the event the vast majority said they would attend the event. The event is set for tonight (May, 25th, 2008) at 6:30 PM and the Buckhorn Exchange restaurant at 1000 Osage Street in Denver. The flyer says, “Serious, radical, libertarians only.”

BELOW: Comedian Andy Andrist (www.andyandrist.com) passes around shots of Scope so the delegates can “wash the bad taste out of their mouths.”

BELOW: Davidson hands out “Boston tea Party” flyers

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Voting Libertarian is a Wasted Vote–Wrong!

dk — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:51:04 +0000

OK, there are all the REAL reasons you should vote Libertarian. It is the way you feel; you know it would be good for the country; you need to vote your mind and all that basic stuff. All exteremly good reasons to vote Libertarian but they do not seem to carry the impact to get closet Libertarians to actually take action and vote their mind. Yea, I’m talking to you, you who wants to vote Libertarian but you just can’t do it because you don’t want the other guy to win so you don’t vote Libertarian but, rather, you vote for the lessor of the two evils.

	The Libertarians you vote for do NOT have to win for your vote to have an impact
That’s right. You can vote for the looser and still have an impact and most likely have a greater impact than you normally would have by voting for one of the two majors.

	When the numbers change, people take notice.
In the presidential election of 2000 (see fec.gov) a mere 385 thousand votes would have more than doubled the .36% popular vote that Harry Browne received. Now, this election was a-typical in that these votes may well have changed the final outcome of the election. However, if we look at the results for 1996, a more typical election, (see fec.gov) we see that doubling the the popular vote for Harry Browne from .5% to and full 1% would have been a drop in the bucket and would not have made the slightest difference in the final outcome. If the additional 500 thousand people needed to double Browne’s numbers would have voted for Harry Browne, those votes, even if taken entirely away from one of the two major parties, would have made a minor impact on that party’s results. For example, if all the additional 500 thousand votes for Harry Browne came from Clinton the impact would have been a decrease of just over 1% for Mr. Bill while having the impact of increasing Browne’s votes by over 100%. Mr. Bill’s numbers would have had to fall by at least another 8 or 9 million votes for this thing to even have come close to any kind of horse race. (Maybe that was the impact of the Reform party but we’ll deal with those (maybe you) idiots lost souls in more detail in another article. Yea, sure, get rid of the federal deficit by taxing truckers. How the hell does Rosshole Parrot think those Frosted Flakes get on the store shelves. What an ass! And as all you that voted for him you really. . .. I digress.) “So what?” you say. Well, we all know that the politicals out there keep a sharp eye on these numbers. If they were to see the popular vote for the Libertarian candidate double you can bet that they will take notice. They will take notice that indeed there are enough Americans out there that are feed up enough to start voting for a major reduction in Government. To put it simply, “they’re on notice.” Kind of like walking into work 30 minutes late everyday and then one day your boss asks why you cannot seem to ever make it in on time. Futhermore, the press and fellow closet Libertarians will take notice that the party is picking up some momentum hopefully leading to more of these closet Libertarians voting Libertarian in the next election and more people taking a closer look at the Libertarian party as an alternative and some making the switch or at least gaining a better understanding of the Libertarian position. Now, do this for a few elections and see the Libertarian party get 2% and then 4% of the vote and watch the reaction. Kind of like your boss now saying you REALLY need to start getting to work on time or I might think about a change to your position. The powers that be and all those that benefit from the huge size of government do NOT want the Libertarians in office because they know that they will be on the outside looking in–fired. They WILL tone it down. Maybe you still do not come into work on time but maybe you now come in only 15 minutes late–alright maybe only 29 minutes late. The government will not stop growing but maybe it will tone it down a little. And, you can bet your bottom dollar, that the two majors’ candidates would start addressing, if even in the slightest, Libertarian issues in their grandstanding speeches. Sure, you can say this is a reach and only slight but, however slight the impact, it is more of an impact your one vote will have if you do not throw it away on voting for one of the majors because you do not want to see the other guy/girl win.

One vote doesn’t matter
Your one vote for Harry Browne in 2000 would have had the impact of increasing the Libertarian percentage by .00026% and by decreasing either of the two major candidates percentage by about .000002%. Small, but the difference is about 130 times–your one vote would have impacted the Libertarian percentages by 130 times more than by voting for the lessor of two evils. No more excuses! Next time, vote Libertarian.