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Originally posted by krwlz
It is absolutly NOT ok with me!! I try to be a realist, and therefore I realize that whatever fight I was to put up would mean nothing, but that doesnt mean I lay down!! There has got to be poloticians who see this as bad out there!! Hopefully they do not lay down either!
You all know damn well it will be applied to unwilling people sooner or later! And that is a violtation of every right we have!
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So long as the only two political parties in power are the Republicans and Democrats you won't see anything like this be stopped. Areas like this are where I'm decidedly liberal, but the fact is, in my opinion, the Democrats are too wrong and too ineffective in other areas to get enough power to permanently prevent things such as this.
When other parties enter the fray - parties with the *somewhat* greater technical savvy that the Democrats have over the Republicans, but also the fiscal conservativism of the Republicans - then perhaps we can see a change in power and a change in the direction things like this are going.
Of course, that would require people to vote and to do so based on what they believe - even if they know their candidate will lose - that time at least. And unfortunately this isn't how Americans vote. They vote based on ignorance. Based on the idea that "these are my two choices, which one am I closer in agreement with?" and "my vote will be wasted if I don't vote for someone who has a chance."
Well your vote ISN'T wasted if you don't vote for someone who has a chance THAT election. In fact, a waste of a vote is voting for the person whom you agree with less but has a greater chance at winning, because doing that causes your beliefs to lack representation, the people who share your beliefs to lack support (financially and socially), and those people's chances of eventually getting the presidency or any sort of political power to lie stagnant rather then incerase over time.
Sorry about that rant - this is a touchy issue with me.