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br> Indiana /p> p> SAM ON TAP br> Re: Shawn Macomber's The Samuel Adams Fan Club : /p> p>What is needed is a website for each state so we can keep up with ballot initiatives and referendums. If I was in agreement I could sign up and work to get it passed. I feel sure lots of them would make more sense that the bills coming out of congress. br> -- Elaine Kyle /p>

Mr. Macomber writes an interesting and hopeful article in his piece on Samuel Adams and the Americans for Limited Government. I would like to hope that our once great country could return to our roots in limited government. I am not sanguine, however, that we can get there with our present two party system -- or at least the present two parties. You might argue that there are, indeed, more than two parties, but there are only two parties that have a realistic chance of being elected and governing.

In fact, one of the items that Mr. Macomber relates in his article is the prominence of representatives of the Cato Institute at the gathering. As long as the Libertarian movement groups cling to some of their anarchic views, the Libertarians will not realize their potential, and will not succeed at the ballot box. Americans want limited government, not no government. Americans want freedom and liberty, not license and total absence of societal norms and mores.

In the last couple of decades the Republicans have achieved great success partly by swearing upon all that is Holy that they are not Democrats, and that we MUST come out and vote for the GOP to keep the Dems out of power. I would argue that we have seen that not to be a strategy that leads where we wish to go. We are going to have to break our bad habits and begin voting for the folks that we agree with, instead of the lesser of two evils. Only in that way will we return the governing process and machine back to some semblance of sanity. Will that require the present two parties to alter their structure, beliefs, and candidates, or will that require the death of one or both of the parties and the birth of new parties based on a realignment of the body politic?

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