As I've mentioned in the past, I have no political home, and in the past when I thought I did I was bullshitting myself. Speaking as an American:
The partisan home of the left is the Democratic Party. It has had nothing to do with liberalism in years. It is basically a Marxist Party where the Bourgeois has become whiteness, patriarchy, bi…
As I've mentioned in the past, I have no political home, and in the past when I thought I did I was bullshitting myself. Speaking as an American:
The partisan home of the left is the Democratic Party. It has had nothing to do with liberalism in years. It is basically a Marxist Party where the Bourgeois has become whiteness, patriarchy, biology is a thing. Me, I'm the left's Bourgeois and the Proletariat is everybody who is not me. I have no doubt that they would go full Maoist Cultural Revolution Red Guard on my ass if they thought they could get away with it.
The partisan home of the right is the Republican Party. It once was about resisting "change" with the question, change to what? At what cost to who? They appear to still be doing that but in reality, it is, stop the woke commies even if the best chance is a crossroads deal with old scratch and electing Trump or the Devil his own self.
The partisan home of the guardians of the individual from the tyranny of democracy is the Libertarian Party. Their convention is a clown show of trying to out posture each other with displays of near anarchy. The average opinion of the crew in Washington DC is lower than whale shit at the bottom of the sea so it seems like an easy sell to them, but sadly, government does have a legitimate function unless you want to live in the hunter gatherer pre-agriculture world.
The partisan home of the save Gaia crowd is the Greens and their "stop oil!" We are technically years away from an oil free world. Shut it off and in three months city dwellers who are totally dependent upon farming and transportation that is reliant on oil will be dead. A friend from Czechoslovakia was fond of saying it would only take three days for people in cities to start killing each other when the trucks quit bringing food to the supermarkets. Then you will have your answer to "Why does anyone need an AR-15?"
Years ago, a Mormon friend said "What are you going to do with your gun when the SHTF? Go hunt for food in the desert?" My sobering reply was that "You have a year's supply of food for you mini-bus sized family. Can you defend it from men with guns who plan to hunt at your house?"
And there are the warmongers who would bring a nuclear Armageddon thinking that it can't possibly go that far if they raise the stakes just a little more. It can, and it probably will one day. When?
There is no partisan or identity political entity that is not batshit crazy. None, not one. Sorry about the buzz kill.
Yep, political parties have sadly become so divorced from the best interests of the people (and in many cases, from reality) that anybody who feels represented by them is either a billionaire or isn't paying attention.
As a refugee from the rust belt, I understood that power was more important than people to the political apparatus in the US (both sides) a long time ago. It's been a while since anyone even pretended to care about the little guy. Crony capitalism is now so normal that no one even questions it.
"it would only take three days for people in cities to start killing each other when the trucks quit bringing food to the supermarkets. Then you will have your answer to "Why does anyone need an AR-15?""
It would take three days before the shelves were empty, another three before cannibalism broke out.
And, no, you don't need an AR-15. Nobody does, aside from people who shoot up elementary schools.
With the breakdown in social order you describe, you only need one bullet.
Oh, and "libertarian" isn't a party, it's a diagnosis. There is something seriously wrong with those people.
My Morman friend might prefer defending his family and its survival stores to killing himself, leaving his lovely daughters to their fate while he doesn't have to watch.
Libertarian is far too diverse a 'group' from which to 'other' them as any one terrible thing. I am not LIbertarian, but it sounds nicer than 'Republican' or 'Democrat'. What then is a good group?
As I've mentioned in the past, I have no political home, and in the past when I thought I did I was bullshitting myself. Speaking as an American:
The partisan home of the left is the Democratic Party. It has had nothing to do with liberalism in years. It is basically a Marxist Party where the Bourgeois has become whiteness, patriarchy, biology is a thing. Me, I'm the left's Bourgeois and the Proletariat is everybody who is not me. I have no doubt that they would go full Maoist Cultural Revolution Red Guard on my ass if they thought they could get away with it.
The partisan home of the right is the Republican Party. It once was about resisting "change" with the question, change to what? At what cost to who? They appear to still be doing that but in reality, it is, stop the woke commies even if the best chance is a crossroads deal with old scratch and electing Trump or the Devil his own self.
The partisan home of the guardians of the individual from the tyranny of democracy is the Libertarian Party. Their convention is a clown show of trying to out posture each other with displays of near anarchy. The average opinion of the crew in Washington DC is lower than whale shit at the bottom of the sea so it seems like an easy sell to them, but sadly, government does have a legitimate function unless you want to live in the hunter gatherer pre-agriculture world.
The partisan home of the save Gaia crowd is the Greens and their "stop oil!" We are technically years away from an oil free world. Shut it off and in three months city dwellers who are totally dependent upon farming and transportation that is reliant on oil will be dead. A friend from Czechoslovakia was fond of saying it would only take three days for people in cities to start killing each other when the trucks quit bringing food to the supermarkets. Then you will have your answer to "Why does anyone need an AR-15?"
Years ago, a Mormon friend said "What are you going to do with your gun when the SHTF? Go hunt for food in the desert?" My sobering reply was that "You have a year's supply of food for you mini-bus sized family. Can you defend it from men with guns who plan to hunt at your house?"
And there are the warmongers who would bring a nuclear Armageddon thinking that it can't possibly go that far if they raise the stakes just a little more. It can, and it probably will one day. When?
There is no partisan or identity political entity that is not batshit crazy. None, not one. Sorry about the buzz kill.
Well, if you didn't just absolutely nail that.
Yep, political parties have sadly become so divorced from the best interests of the people (and in many cases, from reality) that anybody who feels represented by them is either a billionaire or isn't paying attention.
As a refugee from the rust belt, I understood that power was more important than people to the political apparatus in the US (both sides) a long time ago. It's been a while since anyone even pretended to care about the little guy. Crony capitalism is now so normal that no one even questions it.
"it would only take three days for people in cities to start killing each other when the trucks quit bringing food to the supermarkets. Then you will have your answer to "Why does anyone need an AR-15?""
It would take three days before the shelves were empty, another three before cannibalism broke out.
And, no, you don't need an AR-15. Nobody does, aside from people who shoot up elementary schools.
With the breakdown in social order you describe, you only need one bullet.
Oh, and "libertarian" isn't a party, it's a diagnosis. There is something seriously wrong with those people.
My Morman friend might prefer defending his family and its survival stores to killing himself, leaving his lovely daughters to their fate while he doesn't have to watch.
Same. While I still have breath, my family will not be taken. This also means I take great care of myself in order to be capable.
Libertarian is far too diverse a 'group' from which to 'other' them as any one terrible thing. I am not LIbertarian, but it sounds nicer than 'Republican' or 'Democrat'. What then is a good group?
The HAVE been varieties of libertarianism but the only one with any prominence is the pathologically selfish variety.