The problem with the US election system is that it is a fixed two-party system. There is no way for a third party candidate to win a general election. Witness my vote for Ross Perot in 1992, which helped get that clown from Arkansas elected to office. Now his wife wants the job again, when she already ran the country for 8 years, while her husband was off sticking his penis in every hole he could find. I really don't think we need a repeat of those years.
So functionally, everyone has to fit their ideals into one of two camps. Someone like me, a libertarian, gets labeled a "Republican," and by extension gets all the labels the media has attached to that party. I just want the government to leave me the **** alone. And also to remember that, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." I vote for Republican Party candidates simply because their policies more closely align with my libertarian philosophy than do those of the Democrat Party candidates. But seemingly I'm an evil redneck, elitist, bigoted racist because I choose not to vote for socialists. Go figure.
