{"id":109,"date":"2004-05-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:53:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:53:31","slug":"i-may-vote-libertarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/14\/i-may-vote-libertarian\/","title":{"rendered":"I May Vote Libertarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or at least for the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.russoforpresident.com\">Libertarian Candidate for<br \/>\nPresident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<i>I&#8217;m a big fan of balance and having a choice between two acceptable<br \/>\nalternatives. Given that I live in a safe (D) state, I will probably vote<br \/>\n(L). Not to try to split the&#174; block, but because I&#8217;d rather the (L)<br \/>\nparty was the Other Big Party. I&#8217;d rather choose between a (D) and (L)<br \/>\nthan between (D) and&#174;, which is no choice at all.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe (D) messages of public education, labor rights and multiculturalism<br \/>\nspeaks to me.<\/p>\n<p>The (G) messages of environmental sustainability, public investment and<br \/>\nanthro-centric  urban planning speak to me. <\/p>\n<p>The (L) messages of fiscal responsibility, state&#8217;s rights and civil<br \/>\nliberties speak to me.<\/p>\n<p>The&#174; messages of religious fanatacism, ethinic purity and militarism do<br \/>\nnot speak to me. They offend me.<\/p>\n<p><\/i> [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/comments\/2004\/5\/14\/02051\/7441\/92#92\">opendna@dail<br \/>\nykos<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or at least for the Libertarian Candidate for President I&#8217;m a big fan of balance and having a choice between two acceptable alternatives. Given that I live in a safe (D) state, I will probably vote (L). Not to try to split the&#174; block, but because I&#8217;d rather the (L) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}