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Thoughts On Election Day: Relax, Both Parties Are Going Extinct
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Whichever side emerges victorious, both Republicans and Democrats should face up to a much bigger truth: Neither party as currently constituted has a real future. Fewer and fewer Americans identify as either Republican or Democratic according to Gallup, and both parties are at recent or all-time lows when it comes to approval ratings. Just 39 percent give Democrats a favorable rating and just 33 percent do the same for Republicans. Not coincidentally, each party has also recently had a clear shot at implementing its vision of the good society. If you want to drive down your adversary’s approval rating, just give him the reins of power for a few years.
- From Nick Gillespie’s article: Relax—Both Parties Are Going Extinct
Like so many others out there, in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, I became terrified about the future. I knew the financial system was a corrupt fraud (still is), and I became filled with fear as far as what might happen next. The fear wasn’t that a horribly dysfunctional and immoral financial system would come unglued, rather the fear was based in the uncertainty of the general public’s response.
Historically speaking, many of the worst political regimes are swept into power in a reactionary wave following the destruction of an older, flawed system. Hence the saying: Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t. Or even: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. In other words, if good intentions coupled with tremendous upheaval can cause a hellish outcome, imagine the potential impact of bad intentions within such an environment. Those were the thoughts that filled my head during those years.
Over time, I picked myself up out of the fear bunker. Not because the media told me everything was ok, and certainly not because the stock market was rising. I transitioned from my brief period of fear because I recognized it as the negative and useless emotion it is. Furthermore, I had taken some precautions to protect myself should the worst case scenario unfold, but beyond that, I concluded that you need to live your life and try to have a positive impact on the world, rather than shiver in a corner. In fact, that’s exactly what the status quo wants, an ignorant population terrified of everything, paralyzed in a corner. In such a state one can be more easily manipulated by propaganda.
The other thing that helped me become more filled with optimism about the future was the things I was seeing at the grass roots level. The grassroots response from both anti-Democratic establishment “progressive types” and anti-Republican establishment “libertarians” had striking similarities. On many of the most significant issues of our day, these two “activist” groups had a surprising degree of overlap. I first noticed it with the emergence of both the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Tea Party. This venn diagram sums it up well:
I expressed this perspective tirelessly, but it largely fell on deaf ears.
The defining moment where I think both sides finally realized how much they have in common, came last year when Rand Paul filibustered on drone strikes. I outlined my thoughts in the post: #StandwithRand: The Filibuster that United Libertarian and Progressive Activists. Here’ an excerpt:
Personally, I would have preferred the issue that united libertarian and progressive activists to have been the Federal Reserve, since it is the core cancer of this country and indeed the world. Without Federal Reserve funding, none of the awful things our government and multi-national corporations do at home and abroad would be possible, but you don’t always get what you want. If civil liberties is the issue that does it, so be it.
I follow an eclectic group of people on Twitter. Several of them are what would be best described as “progressive” journalists and activists. When I witnessed several of them tweet in support of Rand Paul, my antennae shot up straight into the stratosphere. Then I realized that Rand had quoted the work of several of them on the Senate floor (including one of my favorite journalists Glenn Greenwald), and I knew I something special was happening.
Ever since the dawn of Occupy Wall Street, I have pushed heavily to try to unite the “tea party” and OWS. I recognized that at their core these two resistance movements had the same grievances with “the system.” Unfortunately, the tea party was largely co-opted by mainstream Republicans, while OWS was crushed by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. In reality, it isn’t about these two “movements,” rather it’s about ideas. At this stage in the game, we have very established activists on both the libertarian and progressive side of things. As someone that reads them all, I can tell you that the prominent ones on both sides are genuine, moral and intellectual.
What Rand Paul did yesterday was finally bring the public debate to where it needs to be. In doing so, he united activists that are quite opposed on many issues (less than they think, but that’s for another day). This is extremely significant and we need this momentum to continue. Those of us that care about the core principles that made this country great need to stick together, find common ground and not allow the establishment to control the debate any longer.
A year later, we face another midterm election in which crony establishments from one of the two fraud political parties will be swept into power. I can still pretty much count on one hand the number of decent and intelligent members of Congress. Nevertheless, I strongly believe that the future belongs to those of us in the center of that Venn diagram.
Such thoughts were wonderfully articulated by the editor of Reason, Nick Gillespie, in a post from today titled: Relax—Both Parties Are Going Extinct. Here are some excerpts:
Whichever side emerges victorious, both Republicans and Democrats should face up to a much bigger truth: Neither party as currently constituted has a real future. Fewer and fewer Americans identify as either Republican or Democratic according to Gallup, and both parties are at recent or all-time lows when it comes to approval ratings. Just 39 percent give Democrats a favorable rating and just 33 percent do the same for Republicans. Not coincidentally, each party has also recently had a clear shot at implementing its vision of the good society. If you want to drive down your adversary’s approval rating, just give him the reins of power for a few years.
What’s going on? The short version is that political, cultural, and even economic power has been decentralizing and unraveling for a long time. Whether you like it or not, The Libertarian Moment is here, a technologically driven individualization of experience and a breakdown of the large institutions—governments, corporations, churches, you name it—that used to govern and structure our lives. The result is that top-down systems, whether public or private, right wing or left wing, have less and less ability to organize our lives. That’s true whether you’re talking about the workplace, the bedroom, or the bar down the street (that may now be serving legal pot). This is mostly good, though it’s also profoundly disruptive too.
Indeed, the signal characteristic of the past several decades of American life has been the ways in which all sorts of decision-making has been pushed outwards to individuals or end-users in whatever system you want to gin up. In virtually any commercial transaction, for instance, even budget buyers have far more information and leverage than they did 30 years ago (think of the immense difference in the experience of purchasing a car before and after Edmunds.comcame online).
Traditional authorities in social institutions such as churches wield less control too. Our world is in so many ways more based on voluntary exchange than ever before. As Albert O. Hirschman would put it, we’ve got more ways of exiting a given situation and giving voice to criticism too. That in turn leads to a premium on what the economic historian Deirdre McCloskey has recognized as the “sweet talk” of mutually beneficial exchange and persuasion rather than brute force. (Sadly, the fact of decentralization doesn’t mean that centralization by government and other large forces isn’t also taking place.)
As far as his last line here, I would argue that the forces of centralization see the threat they face and are aggressively doubling down where they can. Indeed, this battle of centralization vs. decentralization is the defining battle of our time. For more detailed thoughts on this, check out:
Networks vs. Hierarchies: Which Will Win? Niall Furguson Weighs In
Ex-CIA Officer Claims that Open Source Revolution is About to Overthrow Global Oligarchy
Now back to Nick Gillespie…
For liberals, it’s always 1965 and social justice is just one mega-entitlement program away from arriving. For conservatives, it’s always 1980 and the next tax cut will solve all problems forever. Each side can appreciate some but not all aspects of decentralization. Conservatives and Republicans can embrace it when it applies to some economic issues and to things like school choice, but they can’t abide the profusion of sexual and cultural identities and the diminution of authority in general. Liberals and Democrats may be more comfortable with some of the latter but then they want tighter and tighter controls and limits on all sorts of commercial transactions.
A key point here he fails to mention is that most of these self-described “liberals” and “conservatives” are actually from the baby boomer generation. These folks will inevitably fade away from a generational perspective, and millennials simply do not think in such terms.
Levin can at least diagnose the problem and recognize that this leads to an evacuation of traditional politics. In this, he’s years ahead of Vox’s Ezra Klein, the sort of liberal dogmatist who isn’t quite able to step outside of his own bubble. Klein recently wrote about how #GamerGate proves “the politicization of absolutely everything”. Don’t you see, wrote Klein, that “our political identities [have] become powerful enough to drive our other identities.” Sure, dead-enders are more bitter than ever. But what Klein can’t acknowledge is that fewer of us actually invest in our political identities. That helps explain why party self-identification keeps heading south and approval for political parties has been on the skids for a long time.
In a world where you can personalize and individualize your online experience, your clothing, your work situation, even your sexuality, why would anyone join up for ossified, rigid, centuries-old groups such as the Democrats or Republicans?
And that’s why the future of politics and policy doesn’t belong to doctrinaire Democrats or Republicans who want to control large swaths of everyday life. It belongs ultimately to the libertarian decentralists such as Paul who not only understand what is happening to America but are growing comfortable with it. Americans are increasingly wary of government’s power, and they don’t want it to teach a single set of morals either. Everything is proliferating and people just want a government that will keep people from starving on the streets and get out of the way as they go to the corner pot shop to buy edibles to take to their friends’ gay wedding celebrated by ministers who are not forced to do so.
Amen to that.
So my final conclusion on this, another election day sham, is to not get discouraged. Things are changing at the grassroots for the better. The battle of decentralization vs. centralization, networks vs. hierarchies, will not be easily won, but it will be won. Keep fighting.
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One or both parties will soon be extinct. I've been hearing that for over 50 years now.
You heard correctly....both parties belong to the New World Order.
Yup....no libs no conservs......just takers....
Listen.
Hard-core users/takers, skilled and trained from birth.
Who cares about parties as long as the Clown-Piehole commies are crushed!
I don't have to buy an iShit device. Not paying taxes on the other hand gets me years of "don't drop the soap big homie". Fuck the government.
I understand the superficial linking of the TP to OWS, based on a spouted grievance but, in reality, that's where the similarity ends. The OWS morons wanted to shut down businesses, confiscate everything, and magically redistribute the wealth. Aside form all their terrorist dealings... They've might've been close on identifying the problem, but their solutions were straight out of UTTER NUTBAG territory.
Huh?
The party that offers the most free things from the government will always have a future.
Ezra Klein? Seriously?!? Ezra Klein is to journalism what Michael Mann is to science.
Sad but true. It's almost impossible to get people to vote for someone who will take away their "benefits".
Till the last drop of blood this nation has, leeches will keep sucking.
Professionals.
Replace 'both parties' with 'both distractions'
That should help.
ZWO
Dinosaurs.
It's coming.
Next election.
Good analysis.
HaHa haha
both parties will stay this nation will extinct.
A nice dream, but still way too far from reality. Entrenched power not going to give it up without a revolution.
Slacker Senator Cory Booker goofs around on Twitter while coasting to re-election victory:
http://tinyurl.com/qb2gllp
waste of time, as if a vote for one or the other party in this mid term is a different vote, opt out..fuck them, fuck it all
fucking joke
facists never give up power willingly (aka: bloodlessly).
Don't hold ur breath...
True - parties will use marketing or whatever to persuade people that they are on your side.
I voted for all of my favorite assholes today.
Long live the assholes!
I bought a gun today and got a NICS check even though I didn't need to have the check done. Now the Feds can see that Mr. Slave is registered to vote, didn't vote, but rather bought a gun.
I buy & sell mine privately or through strawmen, especially the scary looking black "machine guns".
Just like Holder ;-)
Not only do they look scary but they make loud, scary noises too.
The horror.
Well you know that little sound machine that blows farts, screams, crashes and sounds like a machine gun. Well that's about to be banned for your own safety.
election day is a gay man's dream, surrounded by dicks and assholes.
It does not matter. They are immune to any charges of election rigging because they all do it.
Harry Reid, prime example. He seemingly lost his last election and put himself in office through fraud.
According to the constitution we are free men, with the rights granted at birth. We are not electing rulers, but administrators who are doing business in our interest. The federal government is a creation of the states. I am a New Yorker, not an american. The federal government has no sovereignty over me, but can create treaty's with other nations.
We are voting for low level functionaries. The fact that they enrich themselves is rediculous.
You pledge allegance to the flag that Betsy Ross sewed. It has changed over time, but it is the same concept. The flag represents the loose affiliation of the states under the constitution.
Never surrender your rights without a fight to the death. They are your birthright from your grandfathers. Your rights under the constitution are the pinnacle of human progress on earth. The whole reason you are alive, and the inheritance from our forefathers.
Happy Election Day. Never give up. You are humanity's only hope for the future.
to be replacd by what? stupid libertarians like ron paul?
No, a benevolent Dictatorship agreed upon by the 99%.
"Benevolent Dictatorship" is the core of all three Monotheistic Religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam).
Since "God knows best", and his self-appointed perpetual middlemen are his Agents, you'd better follow the Shepherds, little Sheep. [baaah]
p.s. Is "God" a commie-socialist, since no one will have to work in heaven, and have their tears wiped? Or is Heaven the ultimate Welfare State? It sure sounds like it.
The state cannot replace God, my friend. AND YOUR HOPE IN MAN CAN NEVER CREATE HEAVEN ON EARTH AS YOU WILL SOON LEARN.
God left this planet many thousands of years ago, if He even ever bothered to visit it in the first place.
All that is left are deepshits who want to tell you that *they* know what He wants and that is, of course, exactly what they want.
God(s) will be back with Nibiru.
All Hail Enki! (Osiris, Apollo,...)
Ron Paul is not a libertarian. If he were he would have joined the libertarian party. Like his son he just can't get over his religious fundementalist veiw that everyone should share his religious values. Insisting that everyone follow your religion is not being a libertarian.
Okay, I'm ready for the bloody read arrows, let em fly. Yes, I voted for every Libertarian on my ballot.
I agree with you about the religious aspect. Also, most L's seem to think that Ayn Rand was writing text books - it is fiction!
Otherwise, I would let Ron and Rand in my parfty any day - at least they're better by an order of magnitude than Pres O,, Romney, Reid, Mitch McC, and the rest.
Craig
Ayn Rand was a salty cunt. Alan Greenspan told me so.
That didn't stop him from lapping up her philosophy. That double speak troll will some day throw emperor palpatine into the death star core and Bix Weir will be right. hahahaha.
On a long enough timeline its a fucking trap.
Care to sight any speeches or writing of Dr. Paul that reflects that assertion?
Care to mention that Dr. Paul was THE LIBERTARIAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE in 1988?
Maybe, just maybe Paul left the party because he understands electoral law and realizes that beacuse of said laws no libertarian nominee will ever win the presidency.
And maybe, just maybe Dr. Paul took a look at where the party was headed after Rothbard's death and realized that The Libertarian Party is nothing more than an extension of the Cato shit show and has really nothing to do with Libertarianism any more that the RNC has anything to do with conservatism.
Joining The Libertarian Party and "vot[ing] for every Libertarian on the ballot" does not make one a libertarian.
Since I suspect you need a primer:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/laurence-m-vance/i-am-a-libertarian/
Election day is when TPTB ask the people: "Would you prefer to be punched with my left fist or my right?"
Hold your nose and choose whether to be **cked by an elephant or jackass, or DP'd.
Ahh, yes. Both political parties will soon be extinct. This reminds me of the people who claim we are living in "end times" here in 2014.
I wonder if these people ever ruminate on the folks who believed they were living in end times back in 1914.
Nah. That would require the ability to think.
Gold to da moon, I tell ya!
the folks who believed they were living in end times back in 1914.
Sooo, are you talking about the 15+ MILLION people for whom it was the end of the world in WWI or someone else? Dolt.
The millerites were expecting the end in 1843, when that didn't occur they pretty much disbanded. Now the fact that human history has never passed 2018 eludes many, yet still remains a fact despite our best education.
I voted. Had on my NRA ball cap, my 'South Will Rise Again' t-shirt, and an empty holster strapped on my side. I don't think I could have gotten more stares than had I set myself on fire.
Good times....good times I tell ya...
Why an empty holster?
To match the contents of his head, silly.
Seriously, fill that sumbitch. Or is it against the "law"?
Because the Panthers had AKs and Tech9s.
Do tell! I had a Remington shotgun shoved in my face by a Panther at my polling place. There were hundreds of them! All in black leather and holding their fists high!
Welcome to Holder's America, friend. We shall overcome!
Where I vote is a county municipal center (fire department, police, numerous government offices) and honestly I did not have the time to debate anyone who wanted to challenge me on my carry rights, so for expediency, went without it. Just one of those 'pick your battles type of days'. Quick infil, quick exfil.
of course you got stared at ...you voted in Miami South Beach
Maybe cause libs made open carry illegal you pointless Czar bastard. I just gave a Lib a hard time today for smoking an e-cigarette in a public space. The A-hole didn't know it was also banned.
Oh my God! E-cigs have to be the stupidest fucking things ever. Ever! Sam Kinison yell: Aaaaaaahh Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Id kick your fucking face in if you ever even aproached me about vaping in a public space. bitch
Ah, so we're in process of decentralizing power. I wondered what was going on. Funny, I had the opposite impression. Silly me.
I love the power of technology/the internet to say whatever I want and think whatever I want without government monitoring or censoring me under the thinly veiled threat of labeling me a terrorist and/or taking my stuff because they might not like it.
A bunch of gobbling turkeys in a tin-roofed pen.
Don't forget not to vote today!
I went to the polls today just to see who was running. Among all the DnRs in all the races there was a Green Party candidate so I cast a vote for him. Never seen a Greenie on my ballot before.
I first voted for all the Libertarians on the ballot - not many. Then for any Greens not running against an L. Then I either voted against every incumbant or if the incumbant was not opposed I did not cast a ballot for it.
I did enjoy that.
Craig
It's hard for a Green party candidate to win with all this global cooling anyhow. Useless idiots, all of em.
Yep, around here "voting green" is slang for choking the chicken.
Harbanger,
This one's for you, buddy:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/glob/201408.gif
My political disilusionment prompted me to go the the pols completely ignorant of races and issues, save for one. School renewal levy.
My strategy was thus: if a Libertarian or other third party candidate presented, then I voted for them. No votes for
D's or R's, even if they were the only ones on the ballot for that office.
I voted no on all taxes, save for the school levy renewal. Call me a masochist.
The good news is there were three libertarians and one green party candidates I voted for, so it wasn't a complete waste of effort.
And No! I don't feel as if I've thrown away my vote!
So, the Free Shit Army is gong to quit stealing?
Rubbish.
Nope. Corporations and Red States will never stop being takers.
Those red states you're referring to are full of blacks.
Whoops that was racist, my bad.
I laugh when people say ZH is a Right Wing/Libertarian website. There are many confused social justice minded Statists here.
Depends on who you define as 'takers', I suppose.
Democrats - Takers = Multinationals, Banks, corrupt officials
Republicans - Takers = corrupt officials, multinationals, Banks
Promises of moar free shit on Corruption Day!
The people who claim they are independent usually aren't. They vote consistently for democrats or republicans. And then there are all the people who don't vote, which is the majority, plus or minus a few.
I would like the two party system to die, but when the future of both parties depend on the two party system, each side will defend the other's legitimacy. And you can see it in campaign fund laws, debates, etc. They control everything and will not let anyone else in.
If you vote, you are complicit in the crimes of government.
You forgot the word "don't" before "vote."
Hope the polls are still open when I get up from my nap. Otherwise, I'll have slept through another election.
Nailed it! That is all I can say.
A pox on both their houses, and Vote for Paul!
Craig
The "Tea Party" has been co-opted by ziocon pro-military nutjobs. Checkout the Facebook page belonging to "The Tea Party" and every post is some garbage supporting our masters in Tel Aviv. They even hate Ron Paul. Tea Party has been fried.
Unfortunately the Tea Party got co-opted and turned into an astroturf zombie PAC about five minutes after it was created.
Too bad, since the original impetus for its creation was opposition to TARP.
Free Republic is like that.
Get ready for 2 years of Barack O'Veto
The truly scary part is that he might not veto.....
"If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it" ~ Mark Twain
Well, I have not shaved for a week and I have about 15 beers in me. I think it is time to do my civic duty to go write in fictitious names at the polls. I think I might write in J Alfred Prufrock.
I am disgusted by the game and truly believe that voting, in its current form, is a waste of time. I prefer to donate to lobbying agencies and just buy the douche-bags outright after the elections: Don't worry, they are all spineless and will all cave to your whims when presented with funds. Let em lie and cheat all they want to get elected, they heel immediately when it comes time for handouts.
Oh yeah, and you will not get a jury summons in the mail six weeks after you donate to a lobbying group like you do when you vote.
Whichever side is "victorious" through rigging!...
War with pretext On!!!!
"What difference at this point does it make?"
I refuse to be governed... by anyone.
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The only solution is for adults to stop playing "Simon says".
That is the game of government. A pack of human predators assert that whatever they (Simon) say... every human must do.
This state of affairs, utterly accepted as normal and inevitable by well over 99% of the human population of planet earth, is both clinically insane and egregiously harmful to the prospects of individual humans and ultimately the entire species.
Stop playing stupid games!
Stop believing that assigning a name ("government" or "corporation" or "religion") to a pack of human predators... somehow makes them anything more than what they were before you assigned the name. They are still nothing more than a pack of predators, and you are all just playing "Simon says" with the most dangerous pack of predators the world has ever seen.
STOP THIS.
GET REAL.
Or just waste your lives, suffer and die... and good riddens.
+1 They just cannot leave individuals alone.
Government, corporations, and religions all require some form of blind faith. Can any individual prove election results? Everyone must accept the "official" story of the results. It can never be proven for one's self. Just like blindly accepting the words of your priest who is the supposed viceroy for "God."
My current goal is to become self-sufficient so I can go Galt too.
Crush journalism with these truths that journalism omits:
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1223928
I'm not sure what is going to happen to current politics, but I have a feeling a crash is going to be part of the equation.
"When people lose everything, they lose it." Gerald Celente
"People are too fat and happy. Everybody's got a cellphone that will make pancakes and rub their balls." George Carlin
George Carlin on American Consumerism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egwghf1lPik
The #GAMERGATE saga (which is ongoing and growing), has broken open the lid on the same groups that have infiltrated and destroyed from within, other movements such as Occupy and its attempt at doing the same to atheism (see "Atheism+").
"New Media" controlled by the dying old media (and run by their Trustafarian spawns), has been attempting to control our online lives as well.
The difference, is that people are waking up, and fighting back. The mainstream media attempts to paint #GAMERGATE as an attack on women, and not about ethics. In an attempt at silencing the opposition, they have exposed their hand.
GAMERGATE in 60 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipcWm4B3EU4
Their plan has two fundamental elements: guns and SDRs.
When the ponzie-scam is operating well, the banksters and elites find that the more producing sheeple the merrier.
When the ponzie-collapse comes, the banksters and elites find that there are too many sheeple, especially non-producing sheeple. This is when they roll out war, genocide, mass starvations, etc.
An American, not US subject.
"It really is a question of leverage. We can allow the thieving and murderous 10% of us to kill off half of the rest of us, or the rest of us can kill off the thieving and murderous 10%."
What people are waking up? Who is fighting back? I see the same-ole-same-ole going on. Rich getting richer. Poor getting poorer. Corporations and banks getting bigger. Politicians getting more corrupt. Military budget getting larger. Intelligence services getting stronger. The Zionists more in control.
Or am I just dreraming all this?
Relax, the Zionists are in charge.
Now, quit reading this, and get back to the debt-service plow.
An American, not US subject.
I started a new party, The Fuck Them Party--"Fuck them! The pols, crats, funcs, and banksters."
Our platform is:
The Four Rs
Rejection: Quit paying, quit obeying , quit playing
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Retribution: The guilty must answer for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution.
Restoration: Restore the American people, country and Constitutional republic.
This is not a trap. How can I join your Rebel Alliance?
I don't lead or run, and you don't join.
You start to follow yourself, then resist and fight back.
An American, not US subject.
simply put---gov'ts are obsolete--but I've said that before---
Both parties are going extinct, and the future is sort of libertarian...
America's political system in 2024 has come to resemble Russia's. We still have elections, with the National Unity Party winning 90% of the vote and the Libertarian, Constitution, and Green Parties splitting the rest. No one's really sure where the NUP stands on the political spectrum. When asked about it, most people shrug and say they don't follow politics.
In 2021, Congress balanced the budget and ended hyperinflation by voting unanimously to abolish Social Security, Medicare, and all welfare programs. They'll soon introduce a "new dollar" equal to 1000 old dollars, bringing prices roughly back to 2014 levels and the national debt to a manageable $100 billion.
After a few "accidental" deaths, the news media quickly learned to treat the NUP with the same deference they once gave Barack Obama. Drugs, guns, and prostitutes are illegal but very easy to get. So many men in various uniforms carry high-capacity assault weapons that one hardly notices them.
The South was right (again)!
i wrote in my own name for every elected position on the ballot.
when i finally get elected, all you zh mother fuckers are going to wish a democrat or republican had been elected.
king kong aint got shit on me. i'm AM democracy motherfucker. and democracy can be a real tyrant.
when i get elected, you better lock your doors and cover your bung collective bung holes. and before you do that, spray your houses in water and dirt.
i'm going to set the roof on fire!
It's a question of whose leadership you would rather be more miserable under. Do you prefer a forced bj or ass rape? Sorry buddy, pick one or the other. Fine, everyone else picks for you.
Right. And pigs fly south for the winter.
The Zionists have full control of the American system - media, finance and government. If you want change, you had better be prepared to wrest power from them - good luck with that!
The Republicans have gained a bit more control but the fact is they should by all logic now want to slam the brakes on the destructive policies that have distorted the economy and driven stocks to record highs. What a tangled web we weave, fact is the economy is a manipulated mess propped up by government spending and artificially low interest rates that hurt savers.
We have created a "Government Centered Economy", who deserves credit for this very descriptive phrase? The first person I heard using this phrase was Mitt Romney. The phrase may of been around for years or conjured up by one of his speech writers, but it describes what America has become. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/06/government-centered-economy.html
Hopium for libertarians?
Yawn. Good try though. Well paid trolls are at least entertaining.
Mike Krieger is enamored with the article/book "Ex-CIA Officer Claims that Open Source Revolution is About to Overthrow Global Oligarchy" which I found to be incorrect on several levels. First and foremost Open Source tends to lack standardizaiton which is detrimental in IT. Very often a product will prevail becuase it is the "standard". How many flavors of Linux are out there now - thousands? Which is the standard? There is none.