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Entry: Barrack over Baldwin Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/barrack_over_baldwin#25766 Post contents: It is clear that neither of the mainstream candidates possesses an ounce on principled conservatism in his veins. Moreover, the act of voting implicitly yields consent and ascribes a measure of legitimacy to a system which deserves none. I voted for Peroutka in the last election knowing good and well he wouldn't win. But I voted for him on principle because he was the only candidate for whom I could, in good conscience, cast a vote. I didn't and currently don't care what the media or the masses think; this statement is almost an oxymoron because the masses don't think. They do, think, and behave precisely as they are told and conditioned. After all, most people perceive the left/right dichotomy as a valid measure of assessing ones political views when, in reality, it is flawed as you seem to rightly suggest. But I don't think that most people will re-evaluate such things by a mass movement of conservatives to the Obama-camp. In other words, the fact that most people even take an ideology and view it in light of a John McCain or Obama tends to suggest that most people will be unable to break out of their shells of conformity and realize there is more to life than Republican and Democrat. Indeed, I might be so bold as to suggest that there is also the danger of the masses perceiving that some conservatives are moving to the left of John McCain. This is also not helpful. Finally engaging in politics, in my opinion, will never bring about permanent change. It will only encourage politicians to misbehave. Insofar as pragmatic solutions to this conundrum are concerned, I prefer to watch my back and my family and stay under the radar knowing full and well that all empires fall. As for the election, I have considered voting for a hamster or, more abstractly, for the statement "Kiss my ass." On second thought, I fear that Federal dollars might actually be funneled to such an endeavor. Sent at: 2008 07 24