No, no. No.

Democrats use, lie and abuse the middle and lower classes just to get votes. They promise crap, they create division and tension along racial, economic, and any other line they can find. It's a playbook right out of the best South American dictatorships. The masses vote for them based on stupid shit like "Hope and Change" and then they get nothing. Frankly, I don't understand why these people keep voting for them. Look at what's happening to the black community under a black president. If there was ever an indication that Democrat's mode of operation is to use the masses for votes there you have it, playing live right in front of on us TV nearly every day.

The only good thing about Democrats are some of the approaches to social issues. Things like gays are not evil and the war on drugs is stupid.

Republicans? Crap. The religious right represents delusion and insanity. They too, when you produce a few key words, will vote for you at the push of a button. They manipulate a different set of audiences for different reasons.

The only good thing about Republicans is the leaning towards fiscal responsibility, low taxes and low spending.

A good moderate Libertarian will be for small government, low taxes, a moderate liberal social stance, fiscal responsibility, not fucking with the world with armament and getting the hell out of our lives, homes, businesses and bedrooms.

I for one am glad to see someone like Rand Paul making the moves he is making. He is smart. He knows that in this country it is still impossible to win as a Libertarian due to the dominance the main parties are granted by the electoral college system. So, he sits as a Republican. Yet, it is obvious he is not a bible thumping Republican. He is a Libertarian, there's no doubt about that. The chances of him getting the nomination are probably not good, but you never know.

If voters just stopped to think for a moment to realize that the average politician is not much more than a bad used car salesman working hard to use and abuse them every day for their own gains we might just have a chance to start doing things differently. That's a tall order. How do you convince a bible thumper to vote for someone that isn't going to push their buttons and won't demonize gays or other groups? How do you convince a union leader to have their membership vote for someone who isn't going to promise free goodies and favors to their membership?

Probably won't happen. But that's the root of the problem in American politics. We are being pulled to the right or left by a process of buying votes. Those of us in the middle who see things for what they are and really want to do the right thing for the country and future generations have no voice in this because the big parties and the electoral college system push us down into the noise. Voting Libertarian in California or Texas is wasting your vote.

The electoral college, for all it's virtues, has created a system where the party that should be in power right now has no chance at having a voice. Collectively Libertarians are in the many millions across the nation. However, our system of government is designed to pretend that every state is a homogeneous voting block, allocating all votes to one or the other party, which is utterly ridiculous in today's reality.

While I really wish for a Libertarian shift in our politics I fear this is almost impossible to achieve given the realities of how the game is designed and played.