Again, whichever graph or naming scheme you would like to use, the simple fact is Democrats and Republicans don't represent anywhere close to the amount of different political ideologies there are, which explains the number of third parties there are in America, and elsewhere in the world.

If you're so intent on using your line graph, then "both sides" still wouldn't make sense if you were talking to a Centrist, since you know, a centrist isn't on either "side".

...what will actually happen is the current Paul supporters will be 4 years older and move on to the mainstream and the next generation of angst ridden teenybopppers will fill the void left behind from that political maturation process and throw their impotent support to the new current fringe candidate who has no chance of winning...and Romney will win his second term in a landslide over Hillary Clinton .

first off, neither the quote or myself inferes that there are only 2 parites or political ideologies, but instead that there are 2 sides to the entire political spectrum, the left and the right and you will find stupid people on both the left and right side.

i dont think any one here in this discussion would be so narrominded to think that obama and romney or democrat/repub are the only possible political views you can have.

secondly, center is not a side, its the center. in a war does a nutral person take sides? no they remain nutral.

as they are not on either side, given the quote "people are stupid on both sides" it dosnt deal with centrists.

This post was edited by Ylem122 on Oct 12 2012 04:20am

Oh, how you wish you were correct in your brash assumption. You're acting like the Libertarian Party was founded in the last 10 years. If you are truly in your 50-60's. then you should know that many of your peers are also Libertarians:



The Libertarian idea is simply a more appealing message to the younger generation these days, and maybe because the people you see working the campaigns are all young people, you might get the impression that it is a "young people" fad, but rest assured there are many older-generation voters who are Libertarians also.

Yes, but appealing to a uni-linear distribution of political ideologies, means there is only one degree of freedom (1 variable) that distinguishes all political ideologies. While I can't say for sure, this does not seem adequate. I really don't know how many axes would be required to do a good job, but one seems laughable.

...I know exactly one real life Libertarian and he's a borderline conspiracy nutter so I never bother discussing politics with him . The Tea Party will ascend long before the Libertarian movement .

after the argument on religious topics, impretty sure your off topic atleast 20% of the time and atleast 30% of the time you dont fully understand what your quoting but your still willing to argue against it.

so like half the time, your a waste of my time.

given this experience, ive decided to ingnore you rather then waste time futily trying to understand where your coming from, what kind of point your trying to make, and how it relates to the topic at hand.

Thanks, have a nice day.



This post was edited by Ylem122 on Oct 12 2012 04:35am

Hey Widow, long time no see. Yeah, that's exactly why I left the Libertarian party; too many conspiracy theories.

C'mon Widow. Seriously? You've been on these boards longer than I have and you still resort to using anecdotal evidence to back up your obviously ludicrous claims? Because look, I can do the same too:

"I know exactly one real life Republican and he's a borderline conspiracy nutter."

See what I did there? I think I'll trust the Pew Research Center's statistical study to outline the correct age demographics over the biased personal account of what you think Libertarians are like.

Nope.