Seems to be pretty consensus that libertarian voters are more republican-like than democrat-like. I think if you looked around at your fellow Gary Johnson supporters you'd see a lot of white trash bible thumping tea party dummies. I'd just as well not coordinate or associate with these people.
I see a lot of regular people who do their research, a lot of them young. Maybe they were from the original "modern" tea party movement before it was hijacked by social-conservative republicans.
Even if Mitt Romney believed in anything close to free markets, which he doesn't, then I and a large portion of libertarians still wouldn't vote for him because of his domestic and foreign stances.
The same goes for Obama. Even if he wanted to have a non-offensive military and had a socially liberal domestic policy, which he doesn't, most of us still wouldn't vote for him because of his economic and entitlement policies.
But luckily both candidates are authoritarian murderers across the board backed by the same giant corporations and banks so we have all the reason to vote for neither. There's no choice and whoever wins, we're screwed anyway. The difference between you and me is I get to sleep at night.
The city you live in, the roads you drive on, the police you rely upon to keep people from raping you and stealing your shit, the ER you could end up in one day -- This stuff exists because of government. Like it or not, for all of its problems, government *does* do things that affect lives,
Everything you mentioned with the exception of federal roads exist outside the federal government.
and which of the two actual candidates who can win, does win, does matter. Washing your hands of it and not taking part in the actual choice doesn't make you any better than anyone else, and for as much as you tell yourself that you're not being a sheep, what you're doing is silencing yourself. A nutbag like gary johnson will never win. A wish or a prayer never changed a policy, and a vote cast for this guy is just that.
But it doesn't matter whether the current republican or democratic candidate wins. People are still going to continue to be killed by our military, our deficit's going to continue to increase, the government's going to continue granting itself more power, our freedoms are going to continue to be taken away, our dollar's going to continue to lose value, giant corporations are going to continue to get unfair advantages, the police state's going to continue to grow-- and in a few years in Obama's second term, you're going to continue turning a blind eye to it because you're trained to unconditionally vote for one of the two parties they want you to know about.
If you want to act like you're not a sheep and you're going to do something about it, voting for a hopeless candidate is a pretty neutered way of going about it. Go physically protest somewhere or engage in some soft domestic terrorism if you want to be taken seriously on that front. In the mean time it's just toke-fueled hot air.
I'm not silencing myself. I'm spreading the message, and by doing so a number of people I know have become libertarian. We're growing every day.
