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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 677709" data-attributes="member: 2189">I&#039;ve said this before and I&#039;ll say it again just for you. There should be no libertarian party at all. It&#039;s an ideal, a philosophy if you will, not a political construct. After serving as a State delegate in the mid 90&#039;s to the LP I realized this and thus walked away and as I&#039;ve pointed out before I didn&#039;t even vote for the LP candidate in the most recent election. I think the LP party should be abolished in respects to taking part in the actual political process so go right ahead and have all the fun you want with the LP party!&nbsp;As to how the actual people who voted feel about the candidate they choose? That&#039;s a bit meaningless IMO because the simple fact if you count all those that refused to go to the polls as not doing so because they found nothing to support, then 2/3rds of the voters in the Mass. Senate race rejected all those running no matter who or what they believe. This means that the State of Mass. is not represented by a true majority but in fact a true minority. Even Obama if you factor in the 35% not voting as choosing &quot;none of the above&quot;, and then add in the vote to other candidates as a vote against Obama, which it is, then Obama is also in power by virtue of a pure minority. Why people didn&#039;t go to the polls is open for debate obviously but at the very least, none of the candidates running excited them enough to make the effort so thus one can say not voting is saying &quot;none of the above!&quot;&nbsp;If all the folks who believed in what is called &quot;States Rights&quot; or the &quot;10th Amendment&quot; thingy just went to the polls and only voted for local and state politicians and at the least, their congressional representative while ignoring Senators and the President, thus in actions showing support for originalist or 10th amendment ideals, if enough people started doing this or turning in blank ballots, the Statist machine would being to stumble and shutter as it&#039;s ability to con the people into thinking this country is led by a true democracy would begin to expose itself! A people&#039;s bloodless revolution if you will.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 677709, member: 2189"] I've said this before and I'll say it again just for you. There should be no libertarian party at all. It's an ideal, a philosophy if you will, not a political construct. After serving as a State delegate in the mid 90's to the LP I realized this and thus walked away and as I've pointed out before I didn't even vote for the LP candidate in the most recent election. I think the LP party should be abolished in respects to taking part in the actual political process so go right ahead and have all the fun you want with the LP party! As to how the actual people who voted feel about the candidate they choose? That's a bit meaningless IMO because the simple fact if you count all those that refused to go to the polls as not doing so because they found nothing to support, then 2/3rds of the voters in the Mass. Senate race rejected all those running no matter who or what they believe. This means that the State of Mass. is not represented by a true majority but in fact a true minority. Even Obama if you factor in the 35% not voting as choosing "none of the above", and then add in the vote to other candidates as a vote against Obama, which it is, then Obama is also in power by virtue of a pure minority. Why people didn't go to the polls is open for debate obviously but at the very least, none of the candidates running excited them enough to make the effort so thus one can say not voting is saying "none of the above!" If all the folks who believed in what is called "States Rights" or the "10th Amendment" thingy just went to the polls and only voted for local and state politicians and at the least, their congressional representative while ignoring Senators and the President, thus in actions showing support for originalist or 10th amendment ideals, if enough people started doing this or turning in blank ballots, the Statist machine would being to stumble and shutter as it's ability to con the people into thinking this country is led by a true democracy would begin to expose itself! A people's bloodless revolution if you will. [/QUOTE]

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