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03-24-2016, 05:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-24-2016, 07:07 PM by doubleCheese.)
I've voted Libertarian for over 20 years. I don't agree 100% with the party platform. I'm just socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe the real, day to day power should belong to the States and not the Federal government.
The deck is stacked against 3rd parties. What's the harm with including at least the top three parties in televised debates? Nothing, unless you just want to silence another voice. I will continue to vote Libertarian even though I may never see a 3rd party President in my life. I'll do for no other reason than to protest the monopoly of power held by the two parties that forgot who they should be serving.
I agree.
The deck is stacked against 3rd parties. What's the harm with including at least the top three parties in televised debates? Nothing, unless you just want to silence another voice. I will continue to vote Libertarian even though I may never see a 3rd party President in my life. I'll do for no other reason than to protest the monopoly of power held by the two parties that forgot who they should be serving.
(03-22-2016, 02:48 PM)Dutz Wrote: ...Libertarians need to understand this pendulum concept as well. True libertarians believe you should be able to live your life any way you choose as long as you are hurting someone else's.
A Christian who chooses to teach his children that homosexuality is a sin (which of course, the Bible does say) is having his rights infringed by society approving gay marriage through licensing and thus "teaching" the children something else. A gay couple who chooses to marry is having their rights infringed by being asked to go to a different baker for their cake when that baker says it is against his beliefs.
Both are offensive to the other, but neither is truly hurting the other. A true libertarian would side with both of them. Let the criteria be genuine damage, and not offense...
I agree.
The deck is stacked against 3rd parties. What's the harm with including at least the top three parties in televised debates? Nothing, unless you just want to silence another voice. I will continue to vote Libertarian even though I may never see a 3rd party President in my life. I'll do for no other reason than to protest the monopoly of power held by the two parties that forgot who they should be serving.
(03-22-2016, 02:48 PM)Dutz Wrote: ...Libertarians need to understand this pendulum concept as well. True libertarians believe you should be able to live your life any way you choose as long as you are hurting someone else's.
A Christian who chooses to teach his children that homosexuality is a sin (which of course, the Bible does say) is having his rights infringed by society approving gay marriage through licensing and thus "teaching" the children something else. A gay couple who chooses to marry is having their rights infringed by being asked to go to a different baker for their cake when that baker says it is against his beliefs.
Both are offensive to the other, but neither is truly hurting the other. A true libertarian would side with both of them. Let the criteria be genuine damage, and not offense...
I agree.