DennisDee wrote:
I suppose the issues where we disagree are big ones like terrorism. They believe it should be a police issue not a military issue parroting Kerry from the 2004 debates. I believe both are needed.
Legalizing drugs not just pot.
Neutral foreign policy
Open borders.
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O.K. I see better where you are coming from. You think the way I once thought about drugs. I once thought all illicit drugs should be classed illegal, but once I truly thought about liberty and free choices being part of liberty, I changed my thinking. I believe ever adult has the absolute right to eat, drink, smoke, take anything he chooses to if he can afford it. He IS an adult. Laws are already in place to punish if the drug of choice makes him commit a crime or if he damages someone.
When we make a drug illegal, it boosts street crimes, shootings, drug cartels, etc, it drives the cost of the drug up and this creates more crime of theft, and DOES NOT STOP THE SALE OR THE USE OF THE DRUG. So now I take a different view from you on this issue. I respect your stance and always will. That is not to say that any political party will assure your - OR MY - stance.
Terrorism? Actually I thought that police and the feds and the military were active on terrorism. What Bush did was effective. What we are doing now is NOT effective. It has nothing to do with what part of government is taking the action. It has to do with the stance of our nation and its leadership. Obama is a lot of things, including a tyrant, but a LEADER, HE IS NOT. He's weak, he's wishy-washy, he's in over his head.
One does not have to buy a political party's stance 100%. I don't buy into everything that is Libertarian. But that Party represents more of what I believe in than the Republican Party represents. My primary difference with Libertarians is that they believe it is a woman's right to have an abortion any time she wants it. I don't believe that at all. As a matter of fact, I intend to work on that issue within the Libertarian Party to get them to see they have two policies in direct contradiction with each other: right to life and freedom vs the right to take an innocent life in the womb. I believe Libertarians to be far more settled in what they believe than pubbies. Basically they champion less government and more liberty.
All of us are in the same ditch, Dennis. Our political parties have abandoned us. They don't work for us, they work for themselves. They live in the center of corruption. The world is falling apart, and pretty soon I predict there will be a great upheaval as everyone's back is pressed hard against the wall.
We are friends, and I hope we always will be. We think a little differently, but your thinking is not bad and neither is mine - we can work together - and SHOULD.