The Rebel Poet
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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to jmdrake again.So instead of standing with Rand you stand with David Duke? That's not going to bring "normies" to oppose the left. I'm not sure what "Astan" is, but Afghanistan is heating up. And a lot of Trump's "base" loves war. And Trump loves praise, even when it's coming from the likes of John McCain and Lindsey Graham. As for Rand's plan to let non-violent felons who have records because of the unconstitutional war on drugs vote again, only a non-libertarian would be against that.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to jmdrake again.So instead of standing with Rand you stand with David Duke? That's not going to bring "normies" to oppose the left. I'm not sure what "Astan" is, but Afghanistan is heating up. And a lot of Trump's "base" loves war. And Trump loves praise, even when it's coming from the likes of John McCain and Lindsey Graham. As for Rand's plan to let non-violent felons who have records because of the unconstitutional war on drugs vote again, only a non-libertarian would be against that.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to jmdrake again.You have failed to string together a coherent thought here. Try again.
The base of Trump supporters calling into talk radio love the war talk. And that's the reason Trump was able to win when Ron failed twice. Trump talked non-interventionist and pro-war at the same time. During the campaign he went along with the "ISIS is because Obama pulled out of Iraq too fast" nonsense argument that the neocons have been hawking all along. If Obama pulled out of Iraq too fast then certainly Trump has no room to do anything but accelerate in Afghanistan. How do you define "base"? Do you mean the majority of Trump voters? I guarantee you the majority of people who voted for Trump ultimately are pro war.
So you support the war on drugs for the sole purpose of cancelling out the right to vote of groups of people who you think will vote against your interests? Because even if felons rights aren't restored, if the war on drugs is abolished there will be less felons and in a few generations that will have the same effect of having many more voters from communities that you fear and despise.
If we are going to sacrifice principles because people like you don't believe enough in the message of liberty to understand that voting blocks can change over time if you quit right wing identity politics then there is no point in even having a liberty movement.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to jmdrake again.If the war on drugs is ended then millions of black people will not become felons in the first place. Let's cut the euphemisms. Yes most black people vote democrat. That's in part because of crap like the war on drugs which Nixon launched. Reagan accelerated the WOD while at the same time he and Oliver North helped create the crack epidemic. And yes, democrats like Bill Clinton made it much worse when he (Clinton) adopted the GOP "Contract on America" and pushed the GOP crime bill as his own. Undoing the damage from that phone war, as Rand Paul is seeking to do, will be an important step in ending the democratic stranglehold on the black vote. But if we were to take the right wing racist identity politics position of "Let's make sure these people can't vote in the first place" that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.