"Considering that the very last democratic administration we elected pushed for, supported, and passed into law a massive gun ban, as well as several gun control acts, I'd say it is far more plausible that the democrats will push for more gun bans in the future than whatever you were talking about regarding aliens and area 51." Humph. But those are just facts. Anyway, you can't call yourself a patriot if you sacrifice women's rights to abortions on the altar of the gun (and I can't do vice versa).
"I'm from Michigan, and to my knowledge the republican candidate isn't racist. On the other hand, we have democrats here who want to fortify and strengthen racist affirmative action programs." That is Michigan, and while AA is not intrinsically racist, the candidates I speak of sure are:
http://c2ore.com/archives/?itemid=2287
"In our state we are considering the allowing of a dove hunting season. If we don't make the season, dove hunting will be banned essentially." Doves are... Causing damage? Fucking up the ecosystem? Being ugly? They are not the most edible fowl you know.
"There are other places that don't allow hunting on Sundays for some reason.. religious nuts I'd presume?" Ayup. And the penis-centered phalanx of american libertarianism (not implying you, you seem normal) will gladly jump into their bosoms as long as they get them there guns.
"Nah, I'd rather just leave it to the marketplace. I see no reason why the profit motive wouldn't be enough to make companies go forward with this." Yeah, I can picture how the market would gladly have done work on catalysts and limiting CFCs in case the public *didn't* demand it.
"If the rewards for such research are really truly there for the taking, the greed of businessmen will have them flocking to it to search for cures for various diseases." Sure, rather than treat syndromes (like they do now) they'd much rather make a cure that will remove their source of income and will mostly be given to lazy Africans anyway.
"I see no reason why the government should be involved in this one way or another. Leave it to the market." Last time I checked the pharmaceutical consumers didn't demand such cures enough to make it profitable, and most of the pro-gun republicans would gladly ban it as a *private* practice if they could.
"Right.. and I'm sure there aren't any credible economists who argue against the minimum wage, right? *note the sarcasm*" Yeah, show their arguing and then compare yours and their arguments to the work of Kash:
http://streetlightblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/changing-minimum-wage-some-evidence.html Most of the people who argue against the minimum wage do so without thinking - they are dogmatists, not reality-based (objectivists spring to mind).
"I'd be far happier with the left if they would stop trying to act all republican-like regarding terrorism." They can't do that, pragmatically or politically.
"But with swarms of gun hating liberals running to the polls and politicians who will turn a deaf ear to advocates for the bill of rights, it might help, no?" Well, guns aren't the only thing on the founding papers, and I believe dems are more capable of finding a rational position on guns and AA than reps on abortions and same-sex marriage.
"Explain." In a non-meritocratic society letting those with more money run the show can create schizophrenic policies that do not represent the will of the people - the zionist influence of U.S. foreign policy springs to mind. I am adverse to the idea of people influencing politics with money as well but since I am not allowed to believe in intrinsicalities I have to do some research and thinking on that.