Originally posted by: Perknose
Originally posted by: bamacre
And please stop calling me a "conservative."
Excuse me, who has not yet spoken on
this topic, but you were a politicallly coservative Republican (redundant, I know) before your conversion to Libertarianism.
Originally posted by: bamacre
Yeah, I guess you're right. I shouldn't over-expect, Obama is no different than anyone else. Hoping for some change just makes me naive, I suppose.
You say that sarcastically, but it is the core mistake of your political conversion to "Libertarianism."
You don't like this, because you somehow think that your simplistic and overblown response to the
complexity of the modern world, which relies on less oversight rather than more, isn't a naive pipedream of those like you, who are converted Republican conservatives.
In this one respect, you are as naive and as backwards as McCain.
Ours is an inextricably interdependent world. You had better get used to it, or you will fall into the yahoo backwater of faux "rugged individualism" and retrograde "isolationism."
We surely and truly don't need the idiot a priori interventionism of the "Bush Doctrine" -- it is sheer hubris and was a bloody, costly mistake -- but whether YOU like or not, our future is indeliably bound up in the world's future.
China, still ruled at the top by committed and ideological communists, are the ones who will, without one whimper and in their own self-interest buy the treasury debt we are now about to loose on the world market; thanks to our mother-effing, near criminal, hewing to the retard Reagan and Republican banner of deregulation, which is akin to YOUR standard of smaller, laissez-faire federal government.
WHAT does that tell you about the present?
Please wake up and smell the past.
So, yeah, the Gold Standard, economic and political isolationism, AS IF! Hark back to the golden days of yore and get off my monetary and geopolitical lawn! :roll:
YO Herbert Hoover! Come join the rest of us as we ALL try to confront the incredibly complex social and monentary problems of the 21st Century.
I'm no Obama fanboi, check my posts by date if you don't believe me.
But my future depends on your future, just as your future depends on my future; all of which is our future as a nation, and Obama is by far our nation's best
practical choice.
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