Agreed. Your usage was different. I don’t see you getting your fantasy…but hey. I didn’t see us these deep in the brown stinky stuff when Obama first got elected, either.
Sound like maybe you were having a particularly rough day? If so, sorry about that. I didn’t wish it on you, for sure.
Your new description sounds much more on the money. And I agree about Republicans being anathema to libertarian ideals. But then, so does an awful lot of Dem platform stuff. The major parties are like Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee…after they’ve fallen off the wall and gotten all smooshed together. I often wonder if the extreme religious right has any idea at all that they simply push their own support away with both hands so hard that even the Reps are having second thoughts. (Maybe they should go read the book of Paul again? He actually warned 'em about that. sort of thing…).
As I see it from here, the only reason some libs got hooked up with the Reps is because that’s the way the game is rigged. If you don’t have a major party affiliation? No money to run,and they both will just ban you from any major debates so the indies don’t find out there’s a lib running until they hit the polls. I neither agree with or approve of the cozying-up with the Reps, but I understand it as a purely pragmatic move. Yeesh. I don’t even want to vote for a nominal Rep, if I can possibly avoid it. But I’d feel the same if they jumped in with the Dems. Overall, the association simply polarizes people who otherwise might find agreement - such as your dream sitch where the libs and indies wander on over to the ballsy Democratic Clinton-destroying candidate. There’s no reason for you have that dream, except that you are seeing that affiliation problem, too. But really - libs as Dems? Eh.
Oh no - we were having an argument, all right. But I think I probably had mixed some of what you said with some of what somebody else said because I was sleepy., and you got your buttons pushed. I will apologize for my part in it, absolutely.
