I found this great quote from a posting over @ dmiessler.com a few months ago back when Ron Paul was still in the running. I meant to have posted it sooner.
It’s from a user named “ncloud” who wrote the following about the election:
It really doesn’t matter who you vote for in the long run. They will all take your money to bankrupt this country — the question is only how they will do it. Republicans will throw your money at war and education, the Democrats will throw it at welfare and environmentalism. People will continue to complain about how shitty things are and in four more years will forget all the stupid promises that were made this time around and believe them all over again, while beating their drums and repeating the mantra “change… change… change…”.
There is absolutely no reason that Ron Paul should be loosing(sic). He is on a major platform, has raised enormous amounts of money, has gotten face time (maybe not as much as other candidates, but still) on major media programs, has been a Congressman for thirty years, etc. I can only conclude that people who do not vote for him either 1) don’t understand what liberty is really about, or 2) hate liberty and would rather be ruled by masters who promise gruel at the end of the day, because that is all we will end up on our present course, if we are so lucky.
Ayn Rand once said, and I’m paraphrasing, that living for yourself is the hardest thing you can do. And the reason it’s so hard is because you have to face the scary reality that you are responsible for your life — that your success and failures are your own — that you can’t plunder other people for your sustenance or punish them for your offenses by voting leaders into office to do it for you.
This election is ultimately about people who are scared to be responsible for their own education, their own relationships, their own wealth or poverty, their own safety, their own health, their own bodies, their own thoughts, and their own happiness or disappointment with life.
In other words, politically, Americans have Stockholm Syndrome.
Disclaimer: I still think everyone needs to get out and vote regardless of who you choose. I personally will be choosing McCain. I refuse to throw it away and write in Paul and risk letting Obama get elected.
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