Pete's Log: reform party, anarchists, libertarian advocacy
Entry #403, (Politics)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
Brian and I elected to get cable at our apartment. This is cool. Unfortunately, castle point doesn't have digital cable available, which leaves me without sci-fi or history. but i'll survive, i've got cartoon, which means sailor moon! woohoo! but we also get cnn, fox news, cnn headline news, and c-span! this makes me happy. i'd watched the libertarian party convention on c-span earlier this summer, lots of fun that, but not nearly as amusing as watching the reform party convention. i am really quite curious to see if the reform party survives. i certainly am curious as to how the fec is going to handle this and who, if anyone, is going to get the money...
i also watched c-span coverage of this rather paranoid bunch of people calling themselves the august something or other. i kinda forget. but basically they were anarchists... or so they claimed. they had this entire anti-authoritarian outlook, but it didn't make much sense. they were against any hierarchy or authority, governmental or commercial or religious or whatever. i'm not sure how they propose to enforce this lack of hierarchy or authority. they also talked a lot about protecting the environment, which is nice and all, but seems to me you need some kinda authority for that. they seemed like a silly bunch in general.
libertarian fever is kicking in with the election thing coming up. i'm looking into buying various libertarian propoganda items from www.harrybrownstore.com and www.lp.org/services/store/. that may be fun.