The headlines could almost write themselves based on the predictions from the mainstream media's TV pundits without fail. As a result, I have decided to forgo even the motions of casting any ballor. Plus, since there are few to no Libertarian candidates to vote for (a Libertarian Party write-in candidate for US Senate the State of Ohio won't even count ballots for just like all write-in candidates), I won't change party affiliation just to vote for Ron Paul, the only candidate I want to become the next President of the United States.
The GOP establishment has had it in for Congressman Paul since 2008 in the Presidential primaries because he rocks too many boats and won't go along to get along in political matters whenever it conflicts with his honorable and Constitutional principles. He campaigns for true smaller government, but this conflicts with too many big government conservative interests that the GOP has always advocated behind the scenes to please its most-powerful members while pretending to advocate smaller government publically. Dr. Paul offends the Neo-Conservatives, Christian Zionists, War and Empire Lovers and Crony Capitalist because he will not bow to their sacred issues and seeks to defund their favorite programs and agendas within the federal government if elected President. The other Republican candidates talk about freedom sometimes but don't mean it and will forget any small government promises made once safely elected and inauguerated into the White House. Ron Paul would try his best to keep any and all campaign promises he makes because the man in a true believer in small government for America.
He could expect no help from the Democratic Party's establishment and interest groups, even though some agree with him on civil liberties protection and anti war viewpoints in foreign policy, because his ideas to shrink government threaten their long-constructed entitlement political support base. With the Party of Welfare Socialism Dependency against his ideas, and the Party of Big Government Warfare Crony Capitalism never giving him a fair shot at the primaries, I see no other logical alternative for Dr Paul other than to force his ideas into the party's platform (in reality as meaningless an exercise as voting itself) or running on a third minor party's banner for President (the Libertarians would welcome him, but the last time he ran under their label, Paul only won about 400,000 votes in 1988) despite the crippling ballot access laws that drain any of those party's meager funds from campaigning activities to increase votes.
In short, the political game is rigged in America seemingly in favor of any and all forces that seek to expand government's reach into our lives and wallets, until nothing remains a private matter (except ironically abortion and even that is regulated somewhat by law). As 20th Century political commentator Emma Goldman once remarked about voting, and I paraphrase this conclusion here, if voting actually changed anything it would be illegal. Don't worship the false goddess of democracy because on a large national scale it never works and only leads to the Tyranny of the Majority every time as we see across the globe today, in which two or more sides (though usually differing only on marginal issues and who to give the spoils to from the stolen goods won in an election) fight for power but the system keeps getting larger no matter who runs it. I see no difference between LBJ's Medicare and Bush II's Prescirption Drug Benefit except both have increased the cost of medicine and taken away personal freedom all in the name of giving preferred voting groups their entitlements and making everyone poorer generally.
My one watchword in politics is freedom, and I mean genuine freedom from governmetn powers seeking to rule one's everyday life, not artificial freedoms cloaked in the phony theiving language of social justice. It is obvious to me that most Americans don't want maximum freedom, but the comfortable status quo from their nanny state federal government until the bottom falls out of this zombie economy propped up by printed money that has no real value as America heads toward an eventual economic abyss which will trigger the final vestages of the growing Police State when folks riot if their government handouts ever stop. It's a future I don't want to live in even though that dystopian scenario will happen under current deteriorating conditions across this land. I hope the foolish voters who give their misguided annointing to Obama or Romney in this civic religion we call government can live with themselves when the lights finallygo out all over the nation and finally the world (before Christ's Second Coming).
The GOP establishment has had it in for Congressman Paul since 2008 in the Presidential primaries because he rocks too many boats and won't go along to get along in political matters whenever it conflicts with his honorable and Constitutional principles. He campaigns for true smaller government, but this conflicts with too many big government conservative interests that the GOP has always advocated behind the scenes to please its most-powerful members while pretending to advocate smaller government publically. Dr. Paul offends the Neo-Conservatives, Christian Zionists, War and Empire Lovers and Crony Capitalist because he will not bow to their sacred issues and seeks to defund their favorite programs and agendas within the federal government if elected President. The other Republican candidates talk about freedom sometimes but don't mean it and will forget any small government promises made once safely elected and inauguerated into the White House. Ron Paul would try his best to keep any and all campaign promises he makes because the man in a true believer in small government for America.
He could expect no help from the Democratic Party's establishment and interest groups, even though some agree with him on civil liberties protection and anti war viewpoints in foreign policy, because his ideas to shrink government threaten their long-constructed entitlement political support base. With the Party of Welfare Socialism Dependency against his ideas, and the Party of Big Government Warfare Crony Capitalism never giving him a fair shot at the primaries, I see no other logical alternative for Dr Paul other than to force his ideas into the party's platform (in reality as meaningless an exercise as voting itself) or running on a third minor party's banner for President (the Libertarians would welcome him, but the last time he ran under their label, Paul only won about 400,000 votes in 1988) despite the crippling ballot access laws that drain any of those party's meager funds from campaigning activities to increase votes.
In short, the political game is rigged in America seemingly in favor of any and all forces that seek to expand government's reach into our lives and wallets, until nothing remains a private matter (except ironically abortion and even that is regulated somewhat by law). As 20th Century political commentator Emma Goldman once remarked about voting, and I paraphrase this conclusion here, if voting actually changed anything it would be illegal. Don't worship the false goddess of democracy because on a large national scale it never works and only leads to the Tyranny of the Majority every time as we see across the globe today, in which two or more sides (though usually differing only on marginal issues and who to give the spoils to from the stolen goods won in an election) fight for power but the system keeps getting larger no matter who runs it. I see no difference between LBJ's Medicare and Bush II's Prescirption Drug Benefit except both have increased the cost of medicine and taken away personal freedom all in the name of giving preferred voting groups their entitlements and making everyone poorer generally.
My one watchword in politics is freedom, and I mean genuine freedom from governmetn powers seeking to rule one's everyday life, not artificial freedoms cloaked in the phony theiving language of social justice. It is obvious to me that most Americans don't want maximum freedom, but the comfortable status quo from their nanny state federal government until the bottom falls out of this zombie economy propped up by printed money that has no real value as America heads toward an eventual economic abyss which will trigger the final vestages of the growing Police State when folks riot if their government handouts ever stop. It's a future I don't want to live in even though that dystopian scenario will happen under current deteriorating conditions across this land. I hope the foolish voters who give their misguided annointing to Obama or Romney in this civic religion we call government can live with themselves when the lights finallygo out all over the nation and finally the world (before Christ's Second Coming).