> > This seems > >to be a fact of life for any political candidate that might dare to oppose > >this reality. If you happen to be running under a Third Party label, then > >your chances of being considered a 'viable' candidate commensurately > >decreases > >as an easy target to deflect any criticism over the status quo. This, by > >the > >way, is the truth! > > It is, though it doesn't help that the LP and Greens often run people who > are certifiable whackos, politics aside. Nor does it help to run people who have no contact information, or are just there to put a name down (So called placeholder candidates).
> >but nevertheless critical of the current American > >regime's penchion for exporting violence in an already fully-charged and > >hostile world. > > You've got to be kidding. We did not "export" violence. If anything, we > imported it. Heh, yeah no nation exports violence. We've all got it in spades. Some hide it better than others, some express it differently than others. > > > >I don't believe that America was ever designed to be an imperial empire, or > >moral caretaker over the planet we live upon today. I seem to have a > >tremendous problem envisioning just how we arrived as such a moral mandate > >to > >rule the world in such self-righteousness! > > America has always had this, from the "city on a hill" vision of the > Puritans to Manifest Destiny to WWII and beyond. Part of this is that there > must be freedom is either advancing or retreating; there is no such thing as > holding a position. Read the Declaration of Independence if you want to know > where the idea of a moral mandate comes from. > > I for one do not have a problem with the US dominating the world. Better us > than Bin Laden. Better us than the Chinese communists. Better us than Czar > Putin. Better us than the Brussels Eurocrats. Agreed. Libertarians are essentially the same way on a political level. Particularly the anti-government ones, or low government ones. Government may suck but if there is to be on, we'd better have it under control. The current nature of man, and for the foreseeable future, is that something must be top dog. Everything is is jockeying for that position. Even in the "free market of ideas" paradigm, it is about getting your idea (liberty) to dominate the others. > > > >Just how that might have been possible still bewilders me a great deal. If > >George W. Bush is are standard, then God help us! I might say mostly the > >same > >thing in describing the Shrubs' opponents at least as this silly debade > >goes > >on today in public view. > > Indeed, it is hard to believe we have descended from Adams vs. Jefferson to > Bush vs. Kerry and still managed to remain a great country, in fact one that > continues to expand in power. Yup. To me that speaks to the power of capitalism. Cheers, Bill _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
