EMPIRE
16 years ago
"We live in a time when people like me, who do not wish to chose either camp's ridiculous, inconsistent, unrelated ideology, are being forced to chose-and to take one whole absurd package or the other.
We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than actual fanatics.
We live in a time when lies are preferred to the truth and truths are called lies, when opponents are assumed to have the worst conceivable motives and treated accordingly, and when we reach for coercion without even bothering to find out what those who disagree with us are actually saying."
-Orson Scott Card, Empire, Afterword
We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than actual fanatics.
We live in a time when lies are preferred to the truth and truths are called lies, when opponents are assumed to have the worst conceivable motives and treated accordingly, and when we reach for coercion without even bothering to find out what those who disagree with us are actually saying."
-Orson Scott Card, Empire, Afterword
I say that those who have given up on choosing between two morons should go and vote for a third party candidate. If nothing else it'll show the big two that the people will no longer tolerate such bullshit as we have often been getting, and if they want to win, they'll have to shape up or someone else will.