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Originally Posted by Chojin
Fuck people who exploit their handicaps for sympathy and to push their political agendas.
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That's right! Hear Hear!! FUCK Michael J Fox!!! Christopher Reeves too!!!! (God rest their souls)
...and Emu, if you are seriously thinking about voting Republican, you really need to understand what exactly that means. Republicans are socially conservative. That means that they believe there are lines in life nobody should be allowed to cross regardless of nebulous concepts like freedom and liberty. Nothing at all good can ever come from smoking pot, in their mind, that could possibly make up for all the danger associated with people being allowed to smoke pot.
I am sure you are very conservative when it comes to extreme stuff such as having sex with children. I'm sure you probably believe it's best to just go ahead and outlaw that altogether even if by doing so we risk denying true love to some hypothetical couple that, through some twist of fate, just happen to be 45 years apart in age (and one of them is 4.)
If you were running for President, and some old wrinkled up pervo with a NAMBLA button came up and told you that the only way he'd ever be emotionally healthy in life is if you'd allow him to plow the field with some pre-schooler, would you really be all that concerned with his feelings when you told him to piss off? Same same, basically.
What you are looking for is a truly Liberal Party, and that does not currently exist in this country.
Sorry.
If you want to vote Republican, rock and roll, boy scout. More power to ya. I may too. I may also decide to skip it altogether, or maybe write in Max... If I vote for the R-candidate, it will be a vote in support of the WOT and nothing more. I can suffer through the muted theocratic leanings of the right better than I could ever possibly stomach the purely socialistic schemes of the Democrats for the next 4 years.
As far as I can see, being a dyed in the wool capitalist and all, the only thing that could ever have any hope of fixing this country is good ol competition, and that means empowering other countries. That will require globalization, and that's what this war is all about.