Frank Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in small part: >> http://users.bestweb.net/~robgood/politic/nolanolo.html .
>I've been reading your essay -- actually over the last several >days several times over. I've also been reading the various >comments of a great many here who have also taken the time to >read and respond to your essay. >George Wallace had it right. So did Barry Goldwater. There is >not a 'dimes worth of difference at the higher echelons of the >Republic and Democratic Parties'. You indeed tried to point some >of this out obviously in your essay. I think you must've mistaken the comments of others for what I wrote; either that, or you're projecting. This being a representative democracy, there'll always be an effort by the parties to capture the center, which will draw their views toward each other and toward the average of the electorate. Someone else in this thread said s/he thought that was more true of GOP national leadership now than is usually the case, and I said I'd keep an eye out for it, no more. >Since you have ostensibly abandoned the Libertarian Party, I >don't know exactly where you really want to go with this. My essay was descriptive, not prescriptive. Someone who wants to prescribe should take into account the main thing I observed therein: that the "liberal" in the USA today is not well described as favoring individual liberty in the "personal" or "lifestyle" sphere. >The Republicans and Democrats are destroying Liberty >for the common man. It's their present, and historical, goal to >do so, as you, yourself pointed out, probably unknowingly, in >your own essay. If I pointed that out, it's DEFINITELY unknowingly. Extremely few people, in the USA at least, have as a goal the destruction of liberty for the common man. Rather, reduction of liberty tends to come about as an unintended by-product of other efforts. In Your Sly Tribe, Robert _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
