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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] The problem with voting for minor parties is that, pragmatically speaking, they're not going to win. I have no reservations about predicting that Bob Barr will not be the next president of the US. Now, if doesn't matter to you who wins, then that's fine. Vote for anyone you feel like, and the eventual outcome won't make any difference to you. But, as I see it, there's a major substantive difference between John McCain and Barack Obama. If McCain becomes president, the country will almost certainly continue the way it has for the past 7.5 years. Some of the current problems could become all but irreversible, especially given the imminent open seats on the Supreme Court. Personally, I find Obama's vote on the FISA Amendments Act absolutely despicable. But it's a single issue. I'm still going to vote for him because, if I don't, and enough people do the same, McCain wins. And then we all lose. Idealism is great and all, but there are times when the cost of sticking to it is likely to be far too great. <blockquote>"It is also pointless to try to rationalize with an ideology that is hell-bent on the destruction of your way of life."</blockquote> You do realize that this country doesn't get targeted by Middle Eastern terrorists because we eat McDonald's and listen to rock-and-roll, right? And they don't hate our "freedom" (what's left of it, anyway). They attack us because we've been coming over and fucking around with their part of the world for the past ninety years. I mean, by now, it's probably escalated to the point where even leaving them alone wouldn't fix things. But their reasoning was never "Hey, those westerners act differently than we do. This cannot stand!" It was more like "Hey, those westerners keep overthrowing our governments and taking away our land and resources. Let's go fuck them up." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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