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re: Official Frick the 2 Party System Thread #FeelTheJohnson

Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:16 am to
Posted by ForeLSU
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Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:16 am to
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He has his shortcomings, but I'd say he's the best choice we have this cycle


And it's not really even about electing him, but getting to the 5% threshold so that the party doesn't have to waste significant time and resources to get on all 50 ballots next time. But Trumpkins are all convinced all that either the world ends or the good ol' USA of old will be restored forever after today.
Posted by msu202020
Member since Feb 2011
4142 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:16 am to
Washington goes on and acknowledges the fact that parties are sometimes beneficial in promoting liberty in monarchies, but argues that political parties must be restrained in a popularly elected government because of their tendency to distract the government from their duties, create unfounded jealousies among groups and regions, raise false alarms amongst the people, promote riots and insurrection, and provide foreign nations and interests access to the government where they can impose their will upon the country

Do you think Washington had a time machine as well? How else would he know about Clinton's private server?
This post was edited on 11/8/16 at 8:18 am
Posted by Salmon
On the trails
Member since Feb 2008
83616 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:16 am to
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Lol at people who think voting Gary Johnson is any way contributing to making 3rd parties viable in this country. You are actually doing the opposite and solidifying the existing power structure if nothing else.


you're going to have to explain this logic
Posted by TigerinKorea
Member since Aug 2014
8292 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:17 am to
Paul wanted to close the borders. Trump is going to build a God damned wall. Deregulation of business?? Lowering taxes? Shrinking the national government? StAte sovereignty with numerous issues?? Against mandatory vaccines? Are you kidding me?

You are not liberterians. You are intellectual elitist nonconformists.
Posted by LSU316
Rice and Easy Baby!!!
Member since Nov 2007
29311 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:17 am to
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maybe next cycle, we can get a real candidate like me


Hell I'd probably vote for you

I definitely vote for you over Gary Johnson
Posted by LSU Patrick
Member since Jan 2009
73538 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:18 am to
Congrats, idiot.
Posted by cwill
Member since Jan 2005
54753 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:21 am to
He's the only honest, decent person running for the office. There is no lesser evil among the 2 major party candidates - they're an embarrassment. We should all be embarrassed by the fact that the world's greatest super power with a population of 350MM produced these two people as the main candidates to run the show. This could represent the nadir of our current political system - definitely of one of the parties.
Posted by Delacroix
Member since Oct 2008
3987 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:22 am to
I'm in. Voting for the only fiscal conservative in this election.

#feelthejohnson
Posted by AggieDub14
Oil Baron
Member since Oct 2015
14624 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:22 am to
The only idiots are those who cave on their values and vote for someone they know is unfit to be president just to avoid having someone else as their president that they see more unfit.
Posted by NorthGwinnettTiger
Member since Jun 2006
51835 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:25 am to
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Congrats on a wasted vote.


Trump or Hillary win by a couple percentage points, and Gary gets 5% would be anything but a wasted vote.
Posted by Damone
FoCo
Member since Aug 2016
32966 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:27 am to
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You are not liberterians. You are intellectual elitist nonconformists

Posted by Damone
FoCo
Member since Aug 2016
32966 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:28 am to
Gary couldn't even muster 1% in 2012
Posted by LG2BAMA
Texas
Member since Dec 2015
1180 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:28 am to
We don't need a 3rd party.. that's why we have primaries. Americans voted for who they wanted to represent them. It was a long drawn out process with mutiple candidates. Sorry your candidate didn't win.
Posted by AggieDub14
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Member since Oct 2015
14624 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:28 am to
I will gladly be an intellectual elitist nonconformist rather than a party sheep dumbass.
This post was edited on 11/8/16 at 8:29 am
Posted by ChewyDante
Member since Jan 2007
16926 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:29 am to
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you're going to have to explain this logic


This conversation has been had a thousand times. Unless you change the fundamental structure of how American elections operate, you are never going to have a sustainable 3rd party. It's really that simple.

And Libertarian utopian ideas, which is what they are as far as I am concerned, are only further removed from ever becoming a reality by the further and further surge of population dependency on the government and the continuous flow of more and more 3rd world workers who have no cultural ties to concepts of individual liberty. So protest votes that only serve to ensure the victory of Hillary's, Obama's, and future Bernie's don't represent a rational strategy for political viability.

Trump's candidacy, regardless of what you think about his character, actually provides the possibility for fundamentally altering the platform of a major political party. That's the more rational course for achieving meaningful political change from the orthodoxy in my opinion.
Posted by AggieDub14
Oil Baron
Member since Oct 2015
14624 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:29 am to
Pretty sure he got 1.5%
Posted by LesMiles BFF
Lafayette
Member since May 2014
5101 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:29 am to
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Trumpkins are all convinced all that either the world ends or the good ol' USA of old will be restored forever after today.


We all know it's because they aren't that smart. Smart people will always be at the mercy of a well organized brigade of idiots. It's why we can't have anything nice.
Posted by safetyman
Member since Jun 2011
11212 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:29 am to
Lol but Johnson is a retard.
Posted by SDVTiger
Cabo San Lucas
Member since Nov 2011
74054 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:30 am to
I thought you were going to work

Posted by AggieDub14
Oil Baron
Member since Oct 2015
14624 posts
Posted on 11/8/16 at 8:30 am to
So is Trump
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