Have you read your political party's platform?

[Nightingale 0]

Just curious.

[matthewcline 0]

I have read all I can find.

I do not agree with most any of them.

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[Nightingale 0]

Cool! I've read most of them as well, and picked the one that best fit my views, even though I don't agree with all of it.

[Lefty 0]

I wish I could say I have...unfortunately the libertarians have dismantled theirs, so its nowhere to be found.

Edit: Which further convinces me that parties are worthless, when even as noble an ideal as libertarianism can be taken over by foolish party "leaders".

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[Nightingale 0]

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I wish I could say I have...unfortunately the libertarians have dismantled theirs, so its nowhere to be found.

Edit: Which further convinces me that parties are worthless, when even as noble an ideal as libertarianism can be taken over by foolish party "leaders".

It's right here. http://www.lp.org/issues/platform_all.shtml I found it in about two clicks, under the "issues" heading.

[TheAnvil 0]

I've read the political platforms for both the Dem's and the Rep's. Read the LP website quite a bit too.

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[billvon 3,070]

Well, I don't think "independent" has a party statement, so I can't say I've read mine.

I've read the republicans and democrats platforms, and I find them both pretty meaningless. It used to be that a party chose a platform and then worked on getting people who believed in such things to vote for their candidates. Nowadays it seems like pollsters poll people to see what they believe - and _then_ the parties write their platforms to match.

I also read a few libertarian platforms, and while they are pretty interesting, I don't think they'll survive contact with reality. I think that if we ever got more than a few libertarian senators/representatives elected, the party platform would rapidly coalesce into something more implementable - which would probably just piss off the 'real' libertarians.

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