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31 Jul 2010, 4:30 pm

ruveyn wrote:

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I'm a small-government left-libertarian registered democrat who supports ending the war on drugs and providing amnesty to otherwise law-abing illegal immigrants, and opposes government-sponsored health care, exorbitant taxes on cigarettes and unhealthy foods, and absolutely any attempt to legislate lifestyle. And as usual, I find myself with no good option to vote for.

That is not a decent choice to which an honest decent person can subscribe with a whole heart. You are doomed to either skipping on elections or voting for the lesser of evils (according to you reckoning of evil).

Someone once said that a decent person should not see laws and sausages being created.

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This is precisely the type of Republican hypocricy that drives me to vote Democrat. They claim to be for smaller government and personal liberty and responsibility, then they turn around and legislate their own sense of morality onto everyone else. I believe people should be free to live their own lives however they please and it's none of the government's business. If you can't accept lifestyles other than your own as honest or decent, I don't want you making laws.

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31 Jul 2010, 7:26 pm

scubasteve wrote:

Republicans have been lying for at least as long as the Democrats.

Both major parties want to make the government the driving agency in society. They are both Statist.

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01 Aug 2010, 2:02 pm

ruveyn wrote:

Republicans have been lying for at least as long as the Democrats.

Both major parties want to make the government the driving agency in society. They are both Statist.

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You'd probably get on quite well within the libertarian wing of UKIP then. (There is a very small, eurosceptic grouping called the Libertarian Party UK but they are so small they aren't really worth bothering about.)

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01 Aug 2010, 5:20 pm

every group here seems to be represented relatively equally, though I am surprised there are so many conservatives here.

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01 Aug 2010, 5:37 pm

Cheeseroyale34 wrote:

every group here seems to be represented relatively equally, though I am surprised there are so many conservatives here.

Why are you surprised?

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01 Aug 2010, 6:10 pm

Mudboy wrote:

Cheeseroyale34 wrote:

every group here seems to be represented relatively equally, though I am surprised there are so many conservatives here.

Why are you surprised?

Obviously he doesn't post here very often.

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