This post was lifted wholesale from a Facebook note that I wrote. I apologize for a less-than-exciting first post, but I have to start somewhere, and it’s kinda late ;-).

American politics is broken. Michigan’s government is about to shutdown because law makers in Lansing are block-headed puppets of their respective parties. The US House and Senate have been impotent because Bush is a stubborn ass, and the Democrats are gutless and just as stubborn. Can someone explain to me how the two party system is doing anyone any sort of good?

Several people have commented to me (both on and off facebook) on my support of Barack Obama while claiming Libertarian ideals in the “Political Views” line item on my profile. While I still think that he would probably do a fine job as president (he seems to be about as down-to-earth as a politician gets), I am now an official card-carrying Libertarian and as such I can’t in good conscience support a democrat or republican candidate. Neither party has convinced me that it can produce a candidate that is anything but a party-line towing, special interest catering drone.

Ron Paul definitely has my attention, but there are a few sticking points over which I am, as yet, withholding my “vote”. (Not the least of which is the higher than normal “I-might-just-be-a-crazy-old-man-and-ask-you-to-drink-my-Kool-aid” vibe). I’m not sure if he will be able to grab the Republican nomination because the RNC base seem to be the I’m-scared-of-(911) terrorists-so-go-ahead-and-rip (911)-up-the-(911) bill-of-rights-if-it-lets-you-catch-Osama (911) type people (Rudy911), but at least he is pushing Libertarian ideals into main-stream (read: 2-party) American politics.

To those of you campaigning for Ron Paul: keep it up, maybe in the next election we can get the Libertarian Party on the ballot and into the debates! To those of you planning on voting along party lines: the founding fathers were Libertarian Deists, and what you really want, what America should really stand for (true freedom), is not what your republican or democratic candidate can (or will) ever give you.