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savery wrote:
savery wrote:
Watch it, man; that's a lot of common sense. Tends to freak folks out... It'd probably be better for everyone if you just stopped thinking for yourself...voted independant, mostly libertarian. However, a good bit of the time i vote republican. I never vote democrat.
Used to be very in line with the republicans until they adopted policies that are along the lines of "if it takes 30 trillion dollars and the rights of every American to catch one terrorist it's worth it."
The republicans also brought us the DHS and it's related totalitarianism, and the Iraq war. I don't really have a huge problem with the Iraq war, but for $341 million a day and almost 3,000 american lives?? I'd like to think that money is better spent elsewhere (or put back in my pocket) and I think that the life of an American troop is far more valuable than all of that money combined. Is it really worth it?
As a general rule I personally believe in a lot of the republican values.... BUT i have the rare ability to set my personal beliefs aside and realize that others have rights and the job of the government is NOT to tell someone how to run their life.