re: #9 Ringo the Gringo
Street politics is not the answer, the kooks will always take over.
We need to provide an alternative to the crazies, not become their mirror image.
Ayn Rand never called herself a conservative. If fact she felt that some conservatives, the ones with the bipartisan tendencies, deserved to occupy a hotter section of Hell.
As a result Rand called herself and those who followed her Radicals for Capitalism. Perhaps we should think of ourselves as Radicals for Liberty and Sanity.
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