In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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What bothers me is the twisted logic that assholes like Dr. Richard Swier use to arrive at this conclusion:
They start with the assumption that we don't get to choose. Our votes do not belong to us--but to the candidate that they wanted to win.
Then they compound this folly by torturing the math until it appears to support their belief.
Does he really believe that the 16647 votes for Jill Stein and Roseanne Barr would have gone to Mitt Romney if they had not been on the ballot?
Does he seriously believe that every Libertarian would have voted for Mitt Romney if Gary Johnson had not run?
I think the GOP is tone deaf to the Libertarian message. They will pander to the black and hispanic vote. I think they heard that one.
I could care less what the party does, and in fact would prefer it to remain hostile to libertarians.
We have an impact on the outcome of elections.
Why do you think appealing "to the black and hispanic vote", ...pandering ???
My fear is that they will peel away enough to create one majority and two minority/rump parties which guarantees liberalism forever.