OT - was Let the witch trials... now oil

Quothe Kevin Handy, from writings of Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:15:48PM -0700: Yes, it sure seems like that... both seem to attract more than their fair share of corrupt dimwits who like nothing better than to overtax, overspend, pass ridiculous laws, line their own pockets and do political favors for $pecial interest$, etc. I doubt that either party truly represents what most American citizens want, particularly those citizens who bother to engage in an activity known as thinking. Most people, it appears, are usually stuck with making a choice between two undesirable candidates, and all they can do is vote for whomever appears to be the lesser of two evils. Did you ever consider that one can be for huge tax cuts and huge spending cuts, against the war against Iraq, for big cars if people want them (if overpopulation wasn't the problem it is, big cars wouldn't be a problem at all... let the people with huge families be the ones to cut back on energy usage; besides, selling people new cars every year or three is more harmful to the environment than keeping large old cars for many years), for a child tax (to stop overpopulation), against reckless environmental destruction, against needless government regulations and bureaucracy, for a ban on most new land development, for the separation of church and state, for freedom of speech, for property rights (but opposed to land development), against political correctness, for more use of alternative energy sources, etc? The point that I'm trying to make is that political parties don't represent thinking individuals who can have different views on different issues, whatever their views are. Non-thinking 'droids just go along with what some political party stands for on all of the so-called "issues." Hence, the average supporters of both parties are intellectually equivalent, are they not? Now, can you stop making stupid remarks? ;-) -- Copyright (C) 2002 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.