Hello John,   
      
   >LL>If you are in favor of the Libertarian Party (and its principles),   
   >LL>then you will be supportive of Libertarian candidates rather than   
   >LL>candidates of other political parties.  By supporting candidates   
   >LL>of other political parties, you are doing your own political party   
   >LL>a disservice.   
      
   JM>It might be doing the Libertarian Party a disservice but saving   
   JM>this country by defeating Obama and slowing the Democrats is much   
   JM>more important. The only way to do that is to vote with the only   
   JM>other party that has a realistic chance to win.   
      
   The words you just wrote indicate exactly what the Democratic Party   
   and the Republican Party want you and everybody else to believe. Since   
   it is impossible for anybody other than a Democrat or a Republican to   
   win the presidency, it makes absolutely no since for anybody to support   
   an independent or third party candidate.   
      
   However, there is also a sinister element that you and others   
   are perhaps not aware of -   
      
   Putting party first above that of country is an extremist position.   
   Not only extremist, but alarmingly dangerous.  Look what happened in   
   Russia.  And in China.  And in Cuba.  And in other places around the   
   world.  And not just on the left, but also the right.  For example,   
   Adolf Hitler and his one-party Nazi state was every bit as bad as   
   Joe Stalin's one-party Communist state.  One can say the same thing   
   about Benito Mussolini's one-party Fascist state.  And all other   
   one-party states, as all such states are anti-democratic.   
      
   A one-party Republican state would be every bit as bad or evil   
   as a one-party Democratic state.  Or any other one-party state   
   by any given name.  As such, any individual who supports a   
   one-party state is doing both himself/herself as well as all   
   of society a disservice.   
      
   I lived in a one-party state for decades.  The one-party state   
   I lived in was created by Huey P. Long.  He was not so much a   
   Democrat as he was a Populist.  The Long Era finally came to an   
   end when Edwin Edwards was carted off to prison.  Ironically,   
   it was Edwards himself who blew up the house that Huey P. Long   
   built.  But that is another topic.   
      
   In a one-party state, in order to get any service from the   
   state an individual had to get the blessing of a politician   
   who was in the loop.  Any politician outside of the loop had   
   no power or influence.  If you needed a job, especially a job   
   that paid real money, you had to go see one of those "favored"   
   politicians.  Otherwise, you were just wasting your time.   
      
   In Soviet Russia, there were only 24 million Communists at   
   its highest number.  That was in a land of 350 million people.   
   You wanted a job?  Go see Uncle Joe, local commissar for the   
   city of Vlosk.  He get you job.  But only if he like you...   
      
   Now you know why so many folks hated the Communist system.   
   Ditto with the Nazi system.  And the Fascist system.  And all   
   other anti-democratic systems.   
      
   --Lee   
      
      
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