First of all, the oil producing countries doing all the killing are some of the wealthiest in the world. Hell, bin Laden had $20 million. What do you suggest we do, pay them not to kill us? Wise up, man, these people like to kill and their religion gives them the perfect excuse to do it.If they're stupid enough to believe those things, then I hope they continue to lose.Maybe if they abandoned the ridiculous position of open borders and the naive notion that prosperity will make peaceful people out of terrorists they could start winning elections.
Abandoning your moral principles to get elected is how we ended up with the Democrats and the Republicans.
If they started talking about closed borders and war-mongering, they really would be just Republicans who like smoking weed.
And that's your prerogative. I am not a fan of the Libertarian Party and I left it under a cloud of hostility, but it's still a clearly superior alternative to the candidates that the two major parties are offering us. Most Pirates of my acquaintance are talking about voting for Jill Stein, but I simply cannot stand her anti-gun beliefs; I was only willing to vote for Sanders while he was relatively moderate on the issue.
As far as the "naive notion" that prosperity will make peaceful people out of terrorists, what do you think our policy of bombing the shit out of innocent people in the Middle East does? Perhaps we would be better off if we made the effort to help countries with terrorist movements become more prosperous; it can't work out any worse than fifteen years of pointless war have.