Arlo, thats was my rationale also, I researched and supported third party canidates at a state and local level thereby trying to create a base. I think the the reason why we are facing the problems we are is that the majority of the populace are urbanites and this trend is increasing. With this in mind, I would think a urban lifestyle requires increased social control. With that, increased social conditioning. Our ideals our set upon a rural majority and with the increase in urban development and population means an increase in social control. I really do not see many idealic alternatives when faced with the control of a densly populated urban environment which widens the gap between rich and poor with a diminishing middle class that is mainly located in the shrinking rural areas. Consequently we see the extremes of this social strata in our current political ideals. with urban population increasing, the hope for a idealic practical solution diminishes in my opinion. a conundrum for sure.
-ron ________________________________ From: Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 7, 2008 3:32:03 PM Subject: Re: [MD] political harmony [Woods] Yeah, and I noticed you didn't respond to my post to you so I guess you don't have an answer. [Arlo] What post to me? The one where you asked for specific things I think Obama will change? Since I wasn't making any claims he would change the system (to the large scale changes Paul has argued for), I figured you were once again lumping me into a group erroneously. Once again, I reiterate my position. Obama was (IMHO) the better choice of the two, but both would have governed largely as a centrist/moderate. In these elections, a third-party candidate is simply not viable, and will not be viable until a bottom-up capturing of local and state positions secures a large enough base. Until that point, a third party vote on the federal election is (again, IMHO) wasted, as it secures the election for someone who do not want. What I do is cast my federal vote for the better of the two main choices, then vote third party on all state and local ballots when possible (sometimes libertarian, sometimes green, sometimes populist, if the option is there and the person is honorable). Does that answer your question? Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
