Marx and Mill

The rain continued its steady drizzle as the man in a dark coat joined the line. A shout rang out from inside, “I’m not voting for that socialist!”
The man in the dark coat shook his head. “If only they knew”, he muttered to himself.
A man in front of him turned around, “you’re right, people these days are not as well educated as in the olden days. I knew more about voting when I was eight years old”.
The man in the dark coat was surprised to find that there was another person with a bit of intelligence in the middle of this propaganda believing, commodity fettishing, shopping addicts that stood in line before him. He decided that it would be a waste to pass up this opportunity to have a decent conversation, so he replied “All of these people are so sure that capitalism is the right way, the only way, that society has reached the end of its progress, simply because they happen to live in this day and age. They are so near sighted that they can’t even look back far enough to understand that all societies with such an extreme class distinctions were bound to end in revolution, in change. These people try to pin Barack Obama as a socialist, as if it is this terrible evil, and they sneer at the phrase ‘spread the wealth around’, when really he is just raising the taxes of the richest of the rich and in order to keep the lower class alive and happy. What is so horrible about that? If the rich continue to get richer and the poor poorer, then eventually the unions and the workers will rise up and the United States will fall.”
The man in front of him nodded respectfully, but had his own opinions. “I agree with you that many people today are uneducated, and have allowed themselves to fall into a rather pathetic pattern of life. Personally I think that the educated should have a larger say in who gets elected president, but I doubt that the U.S. would ever go for that. However, the government’s responsibility is to keep us safe, and in every other regard we should have as much liberty as possible. Successful business men should be able to keep their money, not be forced to give their hard earned income to those who have not tried to educate and better themselves. While I agree that Obama is not a socialist, his policies do limit our freedoms, and the smaller the government, the better.”
The man is the dark coat was surprised by his words, he was surprised because this was the first person he had met who came come up with an adequate argument against Obama, instead of just calling him a terrorist, Muslim, or Marxist (how ironic). “So you’ll be voting for McCain then?”
“Actually, I’m voting Libertarian.”