[ExI] voting?

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Sep 3, 2016, at 6:05 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> A vote for Hillary in MS is wasted so I won't vote.  If Clinton loses MS by one vote I'll shoot myself.

It's not worth dying over. It's just an election.

> A Red vote is a vote for plutocracy - or is it oligarchy? - about as far from libertarian as you can get.  

Both major parties are oligarchic -- just different factions in the oligarchy or the ruling class. See Roderick Long's analysis of this here:

http://praxeology.net/libertariannation/a/f21l2.html

The two major parties today are extremely far from libertarian. We'd have to go back a century to find when one party was fairly close -- and that would've been the Democrats NOT the GOP. With the exception of its stance on slavery (a big exception, yes), the GOP has always been (and remains even now despite its rhetoric) a party of big, intrusive central government.

Regards,

Dan
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