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That's the problem. The media talks about the "two" parties. About a choice of either/or. There are more than two parties. Major media doesn't acknowledge anyone other than the two plutocratic parties we have. The other parties have difficulty even getting on ballots because the demublicans and republocrats make the rules to keep them down. The other candidates aren't invited to debates. The other candidates don't get free press in the news. They don't get invited on the Tonight show. And it's only getting worse. Anyone who qualified for the California ballot used to be able to make a statement in the voter's information guide. Now they charge $20 a word. So the cash strapped non-plutocratic parties without their corporate backing are even being left out of the voter publications. What I'm doing is correcting eveyone who frames election speech with a choice of either/or or says something to the effect of "two" parties. I hope you will all join in my reeduction plan and call bullshit when you hear such dualistic speech.
HA! That's 55% of registered voters. What percentage of eligible voters actually decide the presiden.... oh, wait. The Supreme Court decides the presidency. Never mind.
If people haven't taken the time to register I consider most of them hopeless. Half of them probably have more important things on their mind than politics,
I described this in another forum, but recently the Supreme Court determined that the blanket primary in Washington state was unconstitutional -- because it DOESN'T ALLOW THE PARTIES TO PICK THEIR OWN CANDIDATES.Not the voters, the political parties get to choose which candidates they want to get in office.Thus, Washington State voters must now declare they are Dems, Reps, or Libs when they fill out the ballot. We can only vote for candidates of the party we pick. In the first primary since that decision, 20% of the voters in my county had their votes invalidated (in the partisan categories) because they refused (or forgot) to pick a party.I used to vote in every single election. Hell, I was a Jerry Brown delegate at the WA state Dem convention when he ran for president (yes, I was young and idealistic at one time). Now? I'm done with partisan politics. I will only vote in non-partisan elections, like my town's library bond issue coming up next month.The parties got EXACTLY what they wanted -- fewer people making choices for the larger mass of apathetic or skeptical citizens.
That would be a start, but I still say the vernacular of "Are you a demublican or republocrat", "either party", "the republocrat incumbant and the demublican challenger", needs to come to a halt. It almost makes me puke everytime I hear a talking head say crap like that. And then it trickles down to the herd and they start repeating that crap.Let's replace that political ladder with the missing rungs and give some real public minded people the boost to get them started.
But if you give up you're letting them have their way. Declare yourself a Libertarian and vote them in in the primaries or whatever and then support them to the presidency
How do you propose we change 100 million minds PB? If you can come up with an idea short of insighting revolt I'll probably do it. I mean I can change my vernacular but the most I'll really effect even with the trickle down is like 1000 people.
Such a cynic at such a young age. I don't expect to change all those minds, but I am principled and express my ideas freely. Who knows, maybe one of the people I correct could become a network executive someday and actually have the power to change things. Probably not, but don't kill this old man's dream
My problem is I've never been a joiner. I'm skeptical of people who surrender their individuality for the security of being pablum fed some ideology/theology that they never have to question.I also don't particularly care for the whack jobs that pass themselves off as Libertarians in this state.And as for inciting revolt, someone earlier made a comment (which may have been laden with sarcasm), about the police not beating protesters up anymore, I'm assuming post-Vietnam era. I guess you missed the WTO riots in Seattle in 1999.
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