Support for Medicinal Marijuana in Romney's MA: Would Romney Win Ron Paul Voters by Legalizing It?

I appreciate your perspective and the perspective of the others here who have agreed with you. I haven't voted since the 2000 election, and it was for Harry Browne. My vote for Browne didn't change anything. Modern libertarians have always had terrible showings in national elections, and, while I wish things were different, there has been no sign of them gaining ground outside of the support Ron Paul has in 2008 and in this year received.

I don't think a vote is ever going to change anything. Voting is the natural outcome of a people's consciousness, and Americans don't yet have the requisite consciousness to change things. The NWO is whatever we want it to be: The founding fathers for the first time in the history of this planet set up a system of absolute individual sovereignty, and, if the people could have kept it, *that*, and the marvelous things they created with it, would have been the New World Order. But, the people were simply not ready for it, and they're still not. Today, people believe what the media tells them because they want to believe it; they want to be deceived, and they vote for who the TV man tells them to vote for. At least for one of the two men the TV tells them to vote for.

Bill Cooper in the 1990s tried to take back the media and its hold over the people with this exquisitely simple plan: A campaign to have ordinary people buy stock in all the major media corporations, and, once they had purchased enough to have a 51% voting interest, simply replace the CEOs and all the NWO talking heads with actual managers, and the pro-NWO news with actual news. Few were willing to spend even $50 or $100 (or even $5) on the endeavor, and so, after some early initial success toward purchasing a small company Bill had decided to do their test run on, the plan failed miserably.

Maybe I'm being too negative, and maybe the lesser of two evils (as I perceive it) is the wrong choice, or is indeed no choice at all. And, 'libertarian' to me may not mean what it means to others who designate themselves as such. I just think, whether we vote for the lesser of the evils, or lodge a protest vote, or don't vote at all this cycle, it will not matter to the libertarian cause, because there is no viable libertarian cause yet. Libertarians have to first build their own competing institutions if we expect others to follow. People need to see something tangible to jump on board, and they have to be ready. Right now, they're clearly not ready.