• joel_feila@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Well to be fair the left in the usa does have another reason to see the libertarian party as just another right wing party. They vote republican when it comes down to D vs R

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      24 hours ago

      I’ve never voted for a Republican OR Democrat that I didn’t know personally in my entire life. Why do I add that qualifier? Because I did know some older small town politicians, in both US parties, back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when my grandfather was still alive, and they were his friends.

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          3 hours ago

          No. Voting for the lesser of two evil is still voting for evil. I’ll write someone in before I vote for some party functionary that only cares about their own political power.

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            1 hour ago

            So functionally, you abstain from voting and dont express a preference about how you are goverened.

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              37 minutes ago

              My preference is plain to see. I will NOT vote for the false dichotomy.

              Keep voting for evil if you want to, just quit trying to force everyone else to.

              Republicans or Democrats. They’re nothing without complacent voters with no real convictions.

              You have no right to lecture me on my belief in self-governance when it’s plain to see that you lack even a modicum of conviction in your political beliefs.

              You’ll vote for a party shill simply because they’re a party shill, despite the party not following through on any of their promises for the last 100 years, and then you have the absolute gall to try to lecture me?

              At least I have the courage of my conviction to stand on principle.

              What do you have, boot licker?