Having cast my vote – the first time I’ve ever voted - I thought I’d contact the most (and practically only) conservative friend I have, an American who teaches in Poland - the type of friend who would never be a friend if we hadn’t met overseas – to ask who he was voting for, and why, not to persuade him out of his opinions, but to hear them out….
He says….
Voted for the Constitution Party/Chuck Baldwin, he's a preacher, I think a bit of a holy roller but the closest candidate to a Ron Paul type of philosophy.
I guess to summarize why I won't vote for McCain and why I really wouldn't vote for Obama is the following:
The three wars which Bush and Dems have both inflicted upon the US, massive third world Immigration which is changing the whole foundation of our nation, Imperialism - trying to democratize third world hell holes which is Utopian insanity and crazy expensive and Indebtedness - to pay for all these peace keeping, democratizing projects overseas and the hopeless task of educating, medicating, housing all these third world immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees etc. we are putting ourselves in hawk to the communist Chinese, Arab oil sheiks and whoever else will lend us the money. We have a 10 trillion dollar debt now? My grandchildren will still be paying that off.
I'm at the fringes of the republican right wing. I'm probably more of an American Firster than any kind of Republican. I like Pat Buchanan's saying - A Republic not an Empire.
If I was in charge as President I would:
Pull out of Nato
Pull out of the UN and force them out of NYC, let Pyong Yang or Tehran host them.
Pull our troops out of Iraq, Afhganistan, and also Germany, S.Korea, Japan – they’re rich countries they can defend themselves.
Seal the border with Mexico with US troops,
Halt nearly all forms of immigration - guest worker programs, family reunification/serial migration, Green card diversity lottery, refugee asylum seekers
Felony charges for any business hiring illegal immigrants, a federal electronic verification system that all employers would have to use to check if a worker is legal to work in the US.
Most illegals would self deport based on the above laws, ICE would round up the rest.
Eliminate the federal dept. of education and HUD, and dept of homeland security.
Legalize all drugs then we can get rid of the DEA and a massive amount of state and city police work.
Anyway, I could go on and on its kind of fun, but you get my point. I’d like to turn the clock back to a time that Calvin Coolidge would appreciate.
Your Prof will probably think you’re friends with a nut job crypto-fascist but really I'm just an old fashioned nationalist/American firster.
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Shannon,
No, your prof wants to go back to High School, read Ayn Rand, and pretend that he would be one of the few to thrive in the desert, with the genius club, instead of the reality of the many who have to deal with the world as it really happens.
But your prof also admits that he has no more of a handle on any solutions (other than procedural platitudes like "engagement" and "care" etc) than any other wingnuts, right or left of center, though he makes a point, out of personal conviction, of shying away from the seductive solace of certitude. (but isn't above an alluring alliteration now and then, and especially loves the philosophies of phound textualities)
McProf
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