From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 13:41:23 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> Fair enough; there certainly are Libertarian candidates who focus on
> things like tax breaks and don't talk much about other things, though
> the party has been moving lately to focus more on eliminating drug
> laws. And I can certainly understand someone who might have issues,
> say, with Harry Browne personally. But it's really hard for me to
> swallow that there are any Democratic candidates who really care about
> liberty and vote that way. Sure, many of them talk a good game, just
> like Republicans talk about free markets while they vote for tariffs
> and farm subsidies and corporate welfare. My impression is that
> Democrats make nice speeches to the ACLU and then vote for stiffer drug
> laws and media controls and gun laws and 100 other things that truly
> endanger my freedom.
This is my impression as well. The statements emitted by Republicrats of
either polarity are effectively meaningless noises. Maybe no third party
is perfect, but if you're not going to vote third party there's little
point in bothering.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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