It has nothing to do with the devil's advocate - I don't just hate the two party system, I hate the two parties themselves. If you think having a stance means choosing one party or the other, then I will NEVER have a stance. Asking me to choose between democrat and republican is like asking me to pick either a barrel of donkey dung or a sack of elephant droppings.


Either way, what I get is gonna be full of crap.



As far as what I believe in? I believe in FREEDOM. And that doesn't just mean the freedoms you or I support or are comfortable with. Freedom means the right to bear arms, and the right to carry whatever knife I want, but it also means the freedom for stoners to smoke weed, or for gay men to marry each other. I don't like either party because they both pick and choose the freedoms they want, and use those cherry picked ideals to polarize people with this simplistic "you're either with us or against us" mentality.

Any freedom, no matter how uncomfortable it makes you, should be protected equally. Freedom of speech doesn't just mean your freedom to say how much you hate liberals, it also means an Arab's freedom to talk about how much he hates the way this country interferes in his former home country. Freedom of religion doesn't just mean a Christian's right to pray, it means a Buddhist's right to go to public school without having others' ideals shoved down his throat.

And I'm purposely cherry-picking statements here that go against the prevailing conservative views here on a knife forum. If I were on a forum populated by mostly liberals, my arguments would be on the other side - not to play devil's advocate, but to try to convince them that their leaders are selling them a load of BS, just like yours are, and try to talk them out of buying into the nonsense.



To get back on topic... My stance is that no state will ever secede in our lifetimes - their economies are too dependent on the rest of the country. No one will give up the military protection or infrastructure put in place by the federal government. Furthermore, the politicians and radio hosts who bring up the idea of secession are completely aware that it will never happen - they are LYING TO YOU to try to make you take their side...






and it works.