Treetop wrote:johnbrickner wrote: They've drunk the cool-aid of R vs D and have bought in this is how the system works for them. They are unaware.
<snip> Watching the libertarians choose a guy who isn't libertarian at all who picked a VP that wants almost all guns outlawed and loves the patriot act and wars floored me.<snip>
I get so big pictured at times, I realized when I read your post here Zac that I didn't know who the LP VP candidate was. OMG Bill Weld, Gov the year I lead the LP in MA! And he all but endorsed Clinton? The same guy who screwed the LP about running on the LP ticket for NY Gov in '06? Did I see him referred to as a Republican Libertarian? That would be like comparing him to Ron Paul
Leave leading the party for 20 years and look what happens. There is a lot I don't know. This much I do know: This LP is NOT the same Party I devoted 20 years of activism in the trenches for. I am embarrassed to publically associate my self with this Party as it is now. I thought Trump and Clinton were bad enough candidates. Bill Weld, OMG. I want to say you've got to be shatting me, but there he is in all his Glory.
Who allowed the Republicans to adsorb the LP like they did the Tea Party Movement in '09?
Polls closing shortly and I become every more adamant we live in the illusion of a democracy. Here In NY I'm now left with Stein or not voting. You call that a choice?
This is very humbling. I was recruited by David Bergland him self at 19 years of age. I stood on the shoulders of the Giants that came before me to see the LP vision. I think of all of the work that was done, money donated, people persuaded to run on local tickets, local town organizations started, total man hours donated, Harry Brown at Fanuael Hall (Not all Carla Howell's doing) under my leadership for this Presidential ticket 20 years later?
I'm burning my party membership.
Edited to add: You'd think I'd be beyond this kind of disillusionment with politics but this is just way to personal. I am just furious and need to find an activists outlet to combat this, this shameless pissing on America I see every day of my life. Were I not with two teen aged children right now I'd go Politically Commando (and wear a kilt to boot). I now advocate nothing less than the complete and total legal decentralization of the power of the US Federal government and international corporations to levels subservient to the Individual, the Communities and the States. Let the chips fall where they may.
I voted Stein. Certainly, her Presidency would hasten the Empire's fall.
