Mad republican alert

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I try to stay away from things that are strongly americentric because I really resent the fact that north America as seen as the default position and other places are either not thought about or are tacked on as an unimportant footnote/afterthought but unfortunately American politics does effect the rest of the world and unfortunately for me the people in my government are U.S. government lackeys so:

Ron Paul is a very very scary person and hes running for US president

hes anti imigration and anti refugees

Hes anti welfare

Hes anti-choice

wait did we just get him on all three strikes why yes we did, hes racist classist and misogynistic! And what do you bet we can add homophobia to that little list as well?

but that's not all folks! oh no

hes also anti gun control

To be fair he was anti the war in Iraq but not because it was fundamentally wrong and imperialistic but because it was damaging for America.

Please dont vote for him and ask your friends not to also

Comments

[visual-syntax.livejournal.com]

Our welfare system needs to be massively overhauled.

[nectarine-words.livejournal.com]

in what way?

[visual-syntax.livejournal.com]

I'm old GOP...or, the way the party was without the looming threat of fascism or theocracy. I like their fiscal plans. People like Ron Paul bother me. There are plenty of good Republicans, but only the neo-cons tend to get elected nowadays.

I'm not anti-welfare, but I think that we give cheques out to people without allowing them to become educated or to find a way to support themselves. Mm. I also live in the second poorest city in the US, so I tend to be biased against the current system because more than half of Buffalo is essentially a warzone. It's not a healthy place to live, and I see money being handed out without urban renewal or other projects to back it up. It's frustrating.

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Mm. I'm also not anti-imigrant, but I think that the illegal situation is akin to new slavery. They're undocumented, they have little in terms of rights, and they're limited in terms of communication. So, I'd prefer it if there was a way to document the illegals, simply so it would be harder to take advantage of them. I don't agree with his no amnesty policy, but I'm hard to disagree with his desire to overhaul the immigration policies.

The Americans who do disagree with allowing illegals into the country tend to be worried about our current economy. Which is considerably more sluggish than it has been. They also worry that the illegals that are working don't have to adhere to the minimum wage laws and tend to drive the price of comparable labor downward. Again, it brings me back to my point on new slavery. I don't think that people can be trusted not to take advantage of them unless there's a reason not to.

[catskillmarina.livejournal.com]

I'd not vote for ron paul for the reasons you said, but i have to say that he
was about the only person who spoke out against laws that gave Gw Bush greater
powers. He spoke out against the war when everyone was in a fury after 9/11.

Even a lot of the so-called left went along with Bush when he blamed Iraq for
9/11. You have to give the man credit for sticking to some very unpopular opinions.

Mind, you i *HATE* American politics as i am a slightly mellowed socialist.

We have not read news in earnest in over a year because it upsets us so...

--- Mtribe Salad