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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
Right, willravel, I see religious thought as a throwback to our earlier experience as a species.
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Excelent! Then we are in total agreement. We are in a similar position. When I started to become disillusioned with republicans, and politics in general, my shift was simply more extreme than yours. Where as you are seeking to fix your party, I left it completly. I still hold on to things like the disagreement with abortion, but I want a smaller government with more local authority and reliance on the individual. I've seen what authoritarian governments can do, and how easily they can be turned from productive societies to crumbling 3rd world hells. America was the first modern test of the libertrian government. Power resting in the hands of the people, not the government. Unfortunatally, this gave way quickly to a democratic republic, then started it's slide back to authoritarian. I want to see what a country can do if it can stay a liberated democracy. That's why I decided to leave the Republicans and join the Libertarians.