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Questions About "presidential Vote" Vote

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Randrew

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A few questions regarding the "Whom to you plan to vote for in the upcoming election" poll:

1) What is the "Constitution" Party?

2) What is the "Peace and Freedom" Party?

3) What is the "American" Party?

4) Why is Nader's ticket called "Reform?" I don't know much about the Reform party, but my impression was that they were a group of ultra-conservatives led by Pat Buchanan et. al.

5) Isn't there supposed to be a Socialist Party here in America? :) (Perhaps that was the one "Other" vote. Good god.)

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The polling feature only allows 10 options but there are 15 parties with presidential candidates. I tried to pick 9 and lump the rest in "Other", but I miscounted.

The identities of the other parties is left as an exercise to the reader.

Which of these would you consider to be the "Socialist Party" ?:

  • SOCIALIST PARTY USA
  • SOCIALIST EQUALITY PARTY
  • SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY
  • WORKERS WORLD PARTY

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FOUR Socialist parties? You've got to be kidding me. I hadn't realized it was that bad here.

Perhaps at this point it would behoove "the reader" to pick up Peikoff's Ominous Parallels, if he hasn't already.

Perhaps you *do* have reason to be Paranoid, Mr. Possibly :)

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FOUR Socialist parties?  You've got to be kidding me.  I hadn't realized it was that bad here.

Perhaps at this point it would behoove "the reader" to pick up Peikoff's Ominous Parallels, if he hasn't already.

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The number of radical statist parties, both socialist and conservative, has increased -- at least where I am living, in Oregon USA -- because ballot access is easier. That is a positive sign, not a negative one.

The greatest threat on the short-term, I believe, is from the mass destruction that conservative/leftist consensus can bring -- in taxation, in "public" schools, in environmentalism, in continued governmental ownership of vast areas of land, in regulation of business, in altruistic wars, and in the killing of the privatization movement.

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