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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Perspectives on the Election

I'm more or less sitting in the same spot as most of the anarchist/left-lib folks that you can find online: Coke Party, Pepsi Party. Looks like the Coke party picked up almost 70 seats in the House, but only 8-ish in the Senate. The Pepsi party defended its control of the Senate. So what? Ain't no one interested in liberty...even the California hippy electorate couldn't get Marijuana legalized (Disclaimer: I don't drink, smoke or other such, and I'm back in the anti-caffeine fight. Darn near a Mormon).

Here's a bunch of other perspectives on the election, many of them :

Will Wilkinson: Liberaltarian tepidly pro-voting.
Charles Johnson: Left-Anarcho-Libertarian anti-voting.
David Henderson: Libertarian economist Anti-fervent-anti-voting-proselytization.
Richard Nickoley: Libertarian Anti-Zookeeper-support (ungentle language)
Eric Crampton: Libertarian economist: voting as masturbation.
Sheldon Richman: Libertarian economist: opiate of the people.
Patri Friedman: Seasteader. Voting is for identity-building, you morons.
Trevor Bothwell: Anarchist. Not voting.
Borepatch: Standard Recommendation.
Adam Ozmiek: Both parties are anti-liberty.
Mark Steyn: How do you vote out the EPA?
Nick Gillespie: Reason. Election didn't change a thing.
Coyote Blog: Coke vs. Pepsi.
Robin Hanson: Politics as War, NOT problem-solving. The forever narrative.
c4ss: Gridlock? If only. Tea Party? Nice try...now the political machine eats the movement.

It SEEMS as if the libertarians I read are near-uniformly of the opinion that the structure of the system is SO biased against liberty, voting is a joke.

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