In light of the venomous Republican opposition to anything that would help America, that has been a monumental accomplishment. .
Probably mama and daddy's opinions. Sometimes people get smart and are able to form their own opinions. And sometimes not. He has a chance,yet.
I like to think of it as the T-rex party because they are all dinosaurs. In every possible sense of the word.
i think all those who think that the united states is responsible for all of the evil in the world should vote libertarian because surely that will bring about the end of the nation as we know it, reducing it [eventually] to somewhere between 5 and 50 small countries economically, they possibly will rank economically as high as japan or iceland, and as low as albania or uzbekistan [note: i'm just pulling names out of my ass here, but you catch my drift] one request: please, just wait until after i'm dead, as i am stuck on the northern plains, which will be at the bottom of that scale when on its own . . .
many libertarians are also secessionists [at least the ones that i know] there have been quite a few different partitioning schemes over the last 30 years, all coming from the right end of the spectrum and surely the whole idea of a weak federal government readily lends itself to secession
No it doesn't. The constitution was set up with a weak federal government that grew and grew over time. Only once in all that time that the federal government was gaining strength did the idea of secession ever occur as a problem; and I really doubt Texas would be willing to start a second Civil War. There wasn't any sort've federal police force until Prohibition; and while I can see the need for national databases; we certainly don't need the DEA attacking marijuana farms in California that are legal by state law.
Both Republicans and Democrats have incredibly low approval ratings, and for good reasons. They've both sold out to the big corporations. People are really ready to vote for something else, but there's no choice. Libertarians are way too much like Republicans and they have nothing to say about protecting the environment. The Tea Party is full of people who have abandoned rational thought.
wrong there have been several movements towards secession many in the early part of the 1800s originated in new england and of course there's the well-known south carolina threat of 1850 there are numerous groups advocating secession and splintering today - as far as i know they are all libertarian i should point out that i actually live in a "republic" that has either announced its intention to secede or is about to ?
Which did not cause a serious problem until they actually did secede, which sparked the Civil War. I never said that there weren't movements.
If not for the strong federal government we would be a group of several smaller nations after the civil war. It's likely that Germany and Japan would have conquered the world and we would be speaking German today. Pot farms are a red herring in this discussion. If not for federal police "coloreds" in the south would still be pissing in rat infested moldy unisex bathrooms and today their would exist 50 de facto nations (assuming Germany didn't conquer those states). A weak federal government would be worthless when faced with enforcing constitutional infringements by states. In effect, this would render the Constitution itself a worthless document. .
you took off the ".. as a problem" part. Germany was going to lose after invading Russia; it just would've taken much longer without our troops. Japan was much too small to be of any real impact; never had a chance. We would have been split into two nations after the civil war; and it wasn't a strong federal government that stopped that from happening, it was swift (and questionably legal) action from one strong President. Are you referring to the Civil Rights Act or the decline of the Klan? Or something else? With the strength of the federal government we have now, the states can't stand up to the constitutional infringements by the federal government.
I don't see it that way, Germany kicked Russia's ass and Stalin would have made another deal with Hitler in order to insure his own personal survival. As far as Japan, they had already made a significant impact before they attacked us. That was a pretty bloody front for us to defeat. Without U.S involvement Japan would have fought with Hitler along with Russia et al and, in my opinion taken over the world. May be, but the federal government was a bit stronger than the Confederacy. And had the South won, do you really think that secession would have stopped there? All states at some time or other resent federal control and that would not have changed with the confederacy as a central government and other states would have eventually got pissed over something and left the union. All of the above. The Klan wasn't the only problem, in fact they were a small part of a much bigger one. Southern Governors were refusing to implement federal orders to comply with Constitutional rights and federal laws. This was much like the Civil War where the states themselves were refusing to conform to established Constitutional law. Governors were standing on University steps refusing admission to U.S. citizens. Had the President not had the authority to send in troops to force implementation the states would never have complied. I'm sure that you are intelligent to see where that snowball would have rolled. Not true, they do it all the time, in the Supreme Court. This is the proper venue for settling disputes between states and federal government, not some damned militia group shooting Congressmen or the president. I've never been shy about my support for a stronger federal government. I've lived through times when the states have had a very bad record of individual and group discrimination. This nation was formed on individual rights and equality and not only do the states have a very bad track record of enforcing those rights, they are most often the ones abusing individuals and groups. The power of the federal government grew over the past 200 years for a reason, necessity. .
