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  • From: B <beeline AT mindspring.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Great Mike Badnarik quote...
  • Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:41:29 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

Hamburger joints, death penalty.... Bah.

Your vote is neither ground meat nor a prison sentence. It is your vote. Each
election you only have one that you get to spend for each office on the
ballot. Regardless of what ol' Ralph, Ross, or any "third-party" candidate or
detractors of our two-party system say, we will have only two viable
candidates for president come this November, one of whom will take office in
January - the Republican or the Democrat.

If you have problems seeing a difference between the Republican and the
Democrat philosophies, you're carrying relativism a bit too far. You could
begin by looking at who tends to reap the benefits from each party.
* Republican rule tends to benefit big business and the wealthy while
Democrats tend to empower the working stiff and the poor (e.g., Reagan and
unions, the Democratic congress and minimum wage).
* Republicans (in the past two or three decades) have become more and more
moralistic after the Christian fundamentalist formula and tend to show less
tolerance for deviance from this formula while Democrats have become more
inclusive and tend to show more tolerance. (If you need examples of this, you
haven't been paying attention.)

Think on it for a few minutes and you probably can come up with differences
of your own.

~B


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Ray <jim AT neuse.net>
Sent: Jul 5, 2004 3:06 PM
To: mindcrime AT cpphacker.co.uk,
"'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'"
<internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Great Mike Badnarik quote...

> Some people think that voting for 3rd party candidates
> is "wasting your vote", since the 3rd party guy has
> such a slim chance of winning. I like what Mike
> Badnarik has to say about that:
>
> ------------------- begin quote -----------------
> If you were in prison and you had a 50% choice of lethal injection, a
> 45% chance of going to the electric chair and only a 5% chance of
> escape, are you likely to vote for lethal injection because that is your
> most likely outcome? If you continue to vote for the Democrats or the
> Republicans, you are committing political suicide!
> --------------------- end quote ------------------
>
[JR>] I like the way Sean Haugh put it: "if you want change, had you rather
work as the cook at a hamburger joint, or open up another hamburger joint
beside the existing one."

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