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Ron Paul for President...period.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ron-Paul-for-President-Period/315965161779740

I found this kind of interesting.. but also really subjective as it's based on assumed answers via study of political voting records & public statements. It definitely re-asserts that most paleo-conservatives like Gary Johnson are kind of right on the moderate line of libertarianism but also farthest to the right. You've also got your Socialist Libertarians from the Green/Socialist Parties way over to the left.

I actually find it kind of ironic that the "Constitution Party" candidate Virgil Goode measured as the most authoritarian candidate. Of course, the only real point this chart tries to make is, as put by PoliticalCompass.org -- "This is a US election that defies logic and brings the nation closer towards a one-party state masquerading as a two-party state."

I probably won't vote (I did in the primary of course) but if Ron Paul isn't on the ballot then would it be better to still exercise in a meaningless charade by writing someone in or simply removing my support for the entire system and hopefully get others to do the same. If voter turnout in 08 was only 66%, I've got to imagine it could be lower this time.

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Liberty: "the conceptual extension of the idea, that your rational mind grants you the exclusive right to your body & products of your labour."

How about we just stop voting altogether? Politics never solves anything. Imagine if we elected Ron Paul - what the heck would change? NOTHING WOULD CHANGE. This politics talk has been going on for HUNDREDS of years - did you ever read Benjamin Tucker's Liberty? They have some great anti-political commentaries the elections which were going on back in their day.
Ron Paul has praised Grover Cleveland. Please read Lysander Spooner's letter to Cleveland in Liberty - you will see how crazy politics is and how useless even "principled" people are when they get elected.

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"Here, every citizen is king; for he has plenitude of power, he reigns and governs." - P.J. Proudhon

I see the extent of positive change that politics can bring is using it as a discussion piece to engage people in, to open them to different ideas. It's likely not the most effective means of doing such, but it has shown some progress. Actually getting people in office hasn't really changed anything. At the most they've merely slowed down the state temporarily.

The other choice is agorism. Fuck changing the hood ornament on the car that's trying to run us over.

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Facebook page for my organization, Liberty Dialogue.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Liberty-Dialogue/122105484601802

Touché.

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Reduce your government footprint.

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