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Precisely. And that's the shit-sandwich they're preparing for us. Who do you vote for? The vapid billionaire reality-TV star who says he'll take on the system and fix all the problems but demonstrates no understanding of the substantive issues? Or perhaps the woman trucking more scandals, flip-flops, and outright lies than any candidate in US presidential history? I can't. It's just too much. Two parties. One fiction. Zero choice.
Quote from: jgiffin on December 21, 2015, 04:56:09 PMPrecisely. And that's the shit-sandwich they're preparing for us. Who do you vote for? The vapid billionaire reality-TV star who says he'll take on the system and fix all the problems but demonstrates no understanding of the substantive issues? Or perhaps the woman trucking more scandals, flip-flops, and outright lies than any candidate in US presidential history? I can't. It's just too much. Two parties. One fiction. Zero choice.That's the main reason I'm no longer voting--I'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils instead of the person I think would do the best job, and none of 'em give a shit about you unless your bank account has at least nine digits on the left side of the decimal anyway.
Issues like this are one of the reasons I've decided to no longer vote. It doesn't matter whose name is on the door, who's sitting at a particular desk, or in a particular chair--it's just different people doing the same bullshit as their predecessors. Besides, I'm convinced my vote doesn't matter anyway.
"The person who casts the vote decides nothing. The person who counts the vote decides everything." Don't remember exactly who said this, maybe Stalin, maybe Lenin (I am the walrus). The thing that keeps me from opening up arteries over all this shit is an interview I heard where I learned that basically our government has been corrupt almost since its inception so this is nothing new. It's not any particular office holder who might be corrupt, it's the whole fucking system so, in my opinion, it's basically a lost cause. There is no fixing it, I just have to ride it out. But there is a certain feeling of lightness associated with giving up hope, like there's nothing I can do that will affect the outcome so I can say, in all sincerity "fuck it".
LotsaBadKarma be thinking like a radical. I like that. However, I'm not quite so discouraged by the electorate as to substitute voting for random selection of representatives. The problem is we don't, properly speaking, "elect" our candidates so much as "select" them from a pre-approved list of party hacks. Once they've limited the possibilities to one, two, or three politicians who are party-men, the vote doesn't matter: they win. Deconstruct the parties by removing their power and presence over ballots, elections, and processes. They've rigged the system. Burn the system down and that benefit is destroyed. The result way be much like the random selection LotsaBadKarma endorses (e.g., hundreds of candidates on a ballot or, perhaps, solely write-in candidacies) but the right of sufferage survives.
Mr. Russert: If your analysis is not correct, and we're not treated as liberators, but as conquerors, and the Iraqis begin to resist, particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly, and bloody battle with significant American casualties? Vice President Cheney: Well, I don't think it's likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. I've talked with a lot of Iraqis in the last several months myself, had them to the White House. The president and I have met with them, various groups and individuals, people who have devoted their lives from the outside to trying to change things inside Iraq. And like Kanan Makiya who's a professor at Brandeis, but an Iraqi, he's written great books about the subject, knows the country intimately, and is a part of the democratic opposition and resistance. The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want to the get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that.
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