30 sats \ 17 replies \ @grayruby 29 Mar \ on: Tough Questions for Libertarians 8/15 libertarian
Fun fact: my wife voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 and she based that on the fact that she was not going to vote for Clinton or Trump so I suppose that is the lesser of three evils or simply an I refuse to participate in this charade.
I'm guessing she's not a libertarian purist, though. She's a good example of why I thought they had a real chance.
The corporate press turned on Johnson as soon as a report came out showing that he was taking more support from Clinton. Up until that point, he was getting lots of favorable coverage.
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My wife is not political at all.
She wasn't going to even vote in that election, as she had to request a mail in ballot for citizens living abroad, and really couldn't be bothered but I suggested she should still vote. Since she didn't like Clinton or Trump I suggested she look into Johnson as an alternative since the Libertarian party seemed to be gaining some traction. She looked into him a bit and decided she would vote for him.
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Did your wife receive a California ballot?
I am not sure if Americans living abroad should vote.
If you live in another country you have less skin in America’s game
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She received California ballots for the past two elections 2016 and 2020. She no longer has a California address now though. She was using her sister's address as her US address but her sister moved to Texas in 2021. So, I guess if she is going to vote in this election she would have to register for an absentee ballot in Texas.
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More people leaving California!
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My wife's entire family except her nephew who recently got married and had a baby have moved from Cali to Texas. Her brother moved to Vegas many years ago and then she moved to Canada full time almost a decade ago. Her sister and her mom and dad moved to Texas a few years ago and after her mom passed away her other nephew moved to Texas as well to stay with my wife's dad so he wouldn't be alone.
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I'm all for skin-in-the-game based voting. Weightier votes for parents, spouses, property owners, etc.
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I was thinking of it as getting an additional vote for any number of pro-social activities. A married person with kids who owns their own home and is employed would get an extra vote for each of those things.
Assuming I can count properly, that would be 4 extra votes. So, their vote would count for 5x the baseline vote every American would have.
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So you want to give votes not take them away. I thought you meant some kind of demerit system. Say, a married with kids, employed, homeowner over the age of 25 gets a whole vote. Then you deduct in increments from there say 1/10 of a vote for every demerit. So if I am a single, no kids, unemployed, renter, living off the welfare I get 0.5 votes.
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I like demerits too, but for antisocial things like currently serving a criminal sentence or being in bankruptcy or other types of default.
Property owners only is my solution
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