Brett Bellmore
New member
Well, David, that's life: There are no guarantees, just indications. Bluesman, believe me, you do NOT want the Libertarian party to abandon it's stand on drug relegalization! We hold that position, as we hold the rest of our positions, as the logical consequence of a coherent political philosophy. We support your right to own guns for the same reason we support Cheech and Chong's right to get high: If it doesn't hurt anyone else, it's nobody else's business! If we ever gave up on drug relegalization, it would mean we'd abandoned that philosophy, and couldn't be trusted to defend gun ownership either.
That's the problem with the major parties, after all: The Democrats have principles, but don't dare admit to the public what they are, while the Republicans won't shut up about the principles they don't actually have. Spending a generation in the wilderness can purge you of weakness, but all it did to the GOP was purge them of anyone who had a higher value than getting back in power. Now their party leadership regards anyone who thinks there's ANYTHING at all more important than winning elections as a dangerous extremist, and works to defeat them. I've seen it at the national level, and here in Michigan; If a Republican actually has principles, the GOP leadership tries to purge them, even at the cost of their seat being taken by a Democrat.
That's the problem with the major parties, after all: The Democrats have principles, but don't dare admit to the public what they are, while the Republicans won't shut up about the principles they don't actually have. Spending a generation in the wilderness can purge you of weakness, but all it did to the GOP was purge them of anyone who had a higher value than getting back in power. Now their party leadership regards anyone who thinks there's ANYTHING at all more important than winning elections as a dangerous extremist, and works to defeat them. I've seen it at the national level, and here in Michigan; If a Republican actually has principles, the GOP leadership tries to purge them, even at the cost of their seat being taken by a Democrat.