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Originally Posted by Halx
daswig, intelligence doesn't make you smart. Even if you're on top of what the parties are all about, you've been engineered in some way to accept these things as the most important issues. You're saying, "Yes big brother, I agree completely and thus I will vote for you." I apologize for arguing on a psychological and philosophical level in the politics forum, but when the parties incorporate both into their campaigns, there has to be someone to stand up and tell people not to buy into it.
Social psychology is one of my favorite subjects. It's an amaingly powerful tool that people in power use to influence those who are not. When you wise up to these schemes, perhaps you'll stand up for your rights as a human.
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Please give me a LITTLE bit of credit. I know what's important to me. I know the positions both sides take. And I am not generally swayed by what either side says are the "big issues". I am NOT saying "Yes Big Brother, I agree completely and thus I will vote for you" any more than by your voting Libertarian you are saying "Yes Little Brother,I agree completely and thus I will vote for you." I'm voting for the party I'm voting for because the other party is far too dangerous to the things that I actually hold dear.
And as for the "tool that people in power use", you have NO clue who I am and what I do, what positions I hold, what my entire educational background is, and what I've done on the course of my life. I've lived an officially "frowned upon" existence (YOU try selling machineguns to the population at large, and watch how fast your ass lands in jail. I did it PUBLICLY for SIX YEARS under Janet Reno's DoJ, moved over ten MILLION dollars worth of total inventory, and was never indicted, much less convicted.) The Government doesn't like what I've done, but they have never been able to get charges to stick, because I KNOW the law, and how to use those levers of power.