I oppose Ron Paul's social conservatism and his cutesy racial rhetoric and anti-unionism.

I oppose the laughable concept that egoistic individualism can preserve a society.All economies must deal with the question of fair resource distribution through public channels of some type.

With that said, there has not been a more consistent individual representative on:

-Opposition to War, Military Industrial Complex, and Empire Building

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Freedom to innovate is at all levels the right of the people.-US Pirate Party Platform

Populism is, at it's core, the belief that institutions should serve the people, not an economic or intellectual elite. All must and should cooperate, but we should not deny the competitive aspects of us that create innovation and advancement.

Populism believes that not all things should be for sale, particularly access to education, health insurance, and access to a minimum income....

The Presidency doesn't mean shit to me. But it means everything to most people, which is sad-Karl Hess

The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries.-Ron Paul

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.-Christopher Lasch

The propertied classes, the robber barons, have since...

By most sociological standards, we are overdue for a major social upheaval both domestically and abroad. Despite quite different levels of living (thought decreasing in difference), people in the Middle East and the Midwest are asserting rights to a share of their government from the corrupt Corporate-Empire in DC.
The tactics are remarkably similar too-non violent occupation and resistance against corporate-backed thug movement (the Koch Party) and other hired thugs and crooks (Egyptian...

Writing about the 1920 Presidential Election, journalist H.L. Mencken said:

"Neither candidate reveals the slightest dignity of conviction. Neither cares a hoot for any discernible principle. Neither, in any intelligible sense, is a man of honor."

Much the same could be said about the current contest.

Neither candidate wants to end the American Imperial Experiment, which has enriched a few selected weapons contractors, mercenaries, natural resource...