Posted by Kromey at 7:22pm Jan 5 '12I mean, okay, I get that our "left" (Democrats) is "center-right" from your perspective, putting our "right" (Republicans), well, "right". But Libertarians are generally seen to be relatively moderate due to their right-leaning fiscal policies but left-leaning social policies (the common denominator basically being "get the government the fuck out of people's lives").
But anyways, I don't really know what to do about it. The GOP, you're right, isn't floating any good candidates (or at least, none that stand a reasonable chance of getting the nomination this year). The Democrats obviously are running Obama again, so no hope for change from the left.
Johnson (the likely Libertarian candidate) would be a good choice, and scores of left- and right-leaning voters would no doubt find themselves agreeing with him if the media would grow a pair and let him get his message out.
I think the biggest thing people can do right now is to stop supporting Obama's hypocrisy and anti-American authoritarianism. Democrats need to grow a pair and criticize their own guy when he steps out of line of what they believe in, and what he promised them. That and let the media know that their complicity in perpetuating the two-party hegemony is not acceptable, and that their job is supposed to be to cover everything -- like the only GOP candidate with solid executive experience (and who the media and Republican party have driven out of the GOP through their blatant favoritism/cronyism).
But anyways, I don't really know what to do about it. The GOP, you're right, isn't floating any good candidates (or at least, none that stand a reasonable chance of getting the nomination this year). The Democrats obviously are running Obama again, so no hope for change from the left.
Johnson (the likely Libertarian candidate) would be a good choice, and scores of left- and right-leaning voters would no doubt find themselves agreeing with him if the media would grow a pair and let him get his message out.
I think the biggest thing people can do right now is to stop supporting Obama's hypocrisy and anti-American authoritarianism. Democrats need to grow a pair and criticize their own guy when he steps out of line of what they believe in, and what he promised them. That and let the media know that their complicity in perpetuating the two-party hegemony is not acceptable, and that their job is supposed to be to cover everything -- like the only GOP candidate with solid executive experience (and who the media and Republican party have driven out of the GOP through their blatant favoritism/cronyism).
Your European left/right confuses me - Kromey