
Originally Posted by
Aloha_Shooter
It's not just the votes for Johnson which wouldn't have been enough to sway the election itself. It's the energy that went into fighting Romney and creating division within the anti-Socialists. Obama mobilized his base and kept them energized through bullshit like the Occupy movement and their misleading propaganda about "1%" and "99%". The anti-Socialists were not united or mobilized. Some of you said Romney wasn't conservative enough, the Republicans were the same as the Democrats and a lot of other equine fecal matter and you're still rationalizing your discontent.
Rationalize away -- the fact of the matter is that a fragmented slim majority will lose to a unified slim minority every time -- both historically and in game theory. Perotistas gave us Clinton and the 1994 Assault Weapon Ban. Otherwise moderates and conservatives who care more about some single issue (e.g., smoking pot, free condoms, a mythical war on women, NPR funding, racial loyalty, unionism, etc.) will give us the 2014 All Weapons Ban.