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"After all, both the left and the right are fundamentally the same - authoritarian statists who wish to use the force of government to make society in their own images and to compel others to live in ways that they approve of."
- Doug Carkuff
And from Dallas Libertarian Examiner's Gary Reed:
"There seems to be little conception by either right or left that any government with sufficient coercive power to establish their agenda for them could and inevitably would turn on its creators and grind them into dust for the benefit of the government itself. Or more precisely, for the benefit of the rulers who run the government."
Why I Pick On Republicans
By Laurence M. Vance
"There seems to be little conception by either right or left that any government with sufficient coercive power to establish their agenda for them could and inevitably would turn on its creators and grind them into dust for the benefit of the government itself. Or more precisely, for the benefit of the rulers who run the government."
Why I Pick On Republicans
By Laurence M. Vance
January 03, 2011
So, the Republicans are back in control of the Congress again. Ho-hum. Time to start writing about the Republicans again.
I haven’t always picked on Republicans. In fact, I used to be one, faithfully voting for all the Republicans on the ballot to keep those evil Democrats out of office. As a conservative who had never been exposed to libertarianism, I was a Republican by default. Oh, the political ignorance of youth!
I remember taking a political survey in seventh or eighth grade in which I scored, I think, an 8 out of 10, with 1 being extreme liberal and 10 being extreme conservative. Obviously, it wasn’t the World’s Smallest Political Quiz. I suppose it was on the basis of that survey that I considered myself a conservative. I don’t remember any political discussions at home growing up.
The first election in which I was old enough to vote was in 1980, but I don’t remember voting or even being registered until perhaps the 1982 midterm elections. Even so, I really don’t remember in which election years I voted and in which ones I didn’t. I think the last time I voted as a frustrated, libertarian-leaning conservative and still somewhat ignorant Republican was for Bush the elder against Clinton in 1992. I didn’t care much for Bush, but he was a Republican and Clinton was a Democrat.
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