40% of Us Can’t be Totally Wrong!
If you are one of that 40% or so who doesn’t vote, as I am, it probably pleases you no end, as it does me, that the “pundits” are so completely unable to understand why we didn’t vote that they have been reduced to name calling.
Every time I hear one of those poor benighted dorks call me (us) slackers, lazy oafs, unappreciative of those “who died for our democracy to exist”, and all the rest of that horse-pucky, I want to grab him by the “you-know-whats” and squeeze hard until I get his undivided attention!
And how about that lame, old attempt at making us feel embarrassed for not voting, “If you didn’t vote - you’ve got no right to complain”.
Well for those of you who are so slavishly obedient; so doltishly unintelligent, as to try to insult good, honest, decent people whose only ‘crime’ was in not taking part in a farce, engineered by politicians, designed to give one political party an advantage over the others, let me smack you right back in yer stupid faces.
“If you did vote - YOU have no right to complain”!!
You are part of that farce. A willing part, no less. You put every one of those two-faced, lying, egotistical, slurping-at-the-trough, sons-of-guns in there to have a go at emptying our pockets to the point where soon we’ll, none of us, be able to feed, clothe, and provide shelter for our families. You get down there and wallowed right in the muck of deceit, chicanery, and out-and-out lies, spewed by the ton by those arrogant, would-be Masters-of-us-all. You help them to get into positions where they will continue to fill the pockets of themselves and their favoured few with OUR hard-earned money!
And you think YOU have a right to sling mud at US?!! You think you can tell us that WE have no right to complain. To imply that we are not good citizens because we can not, in good conscience, endorse, by our presence and participation, the nonsensical, humiliating, debasing and totally unnecessary rigmarole of VERY expensive “elections-to-gratify-egos!” Which basically change nothing; as anyone with an I.Q. of at least two digits could, and probably did, tell you.
I’ll tell you who has absolutely no right to complain, butthead. It’s YOU. You and all those other mutts who join right in and chose one of a bad lot to throw your vote to. Did you ever, for one moment, stop and THINK about what you were doing? Even once? NO you did not. You got all revved up on ‘patriotic-duty-to-vote’ and off you went like a good little automaton. You disgust me! I want to toss my cookies every time I hear one of you mealy-mouth brown-nosers babble your despicable nonsense.
Many fine, upstanding, honourable, thoughtful citizens of this country stay out of it. They recognize it for the mockery of democracy that it is and chose not to participate in it. They choose to make it clear, to the politicians and their Political Parties, that the old adage, part of which says, “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time”, has a great deal of truth in it. They also indicate that they are no longer fooled by the admonition to “work for change from the inside”. Far too many good men and women have broken their heads on that particular rock. And their bank accounts. And, saddest of all, their good, decent hearts.
The rot within is all pervasive and the clearest sign that this is so is the fact that the ballot does not have a place on it for the voting citizen to express his dissatisfaction with all parties and/or candidates. There is no N.O.T.A. (None Of The Above) place for him to put his ‘X’. Politicians are, quite understandably, disturbed at this idea. Their egos would suffer terribly if the electorate expressed its opinion of them in this manner.
As things stand at present, all we can do is “vote with our feet”. Stay away. Make it clear to the politicos and their hounds that they don’t have what it takes to represent this very large portion of the population. We do it in the only way allowed to us. (Allowed for now, anyway.) I expect the pols to soon close off that means of ‘communication’. Any day now they’ll pass a law forcing us to feed their egos with our “free” votes!!
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CANADIAN!!!
There, that felt good!! But can't blame me, I voted for the other guy(the one that loses all the time cause he's just too frucking honest!!!! :D)
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Lezlie
But I'm such a shy little wallflower......
cc,
People DO write it in. It gets counted as a "spoiled ballot". Same thing with writing in the name of a non-candidate. Didn't you ever wonder why there are so many "spoiled ballots"? Did you think that they were all because the pencil leaked?
jmac,
Yup, y'all invaded us in 1812. We kicked yer ass, chased ya home, and burned the White House! Tiz true, check it out.
And your way just results in supporting the present system and can get your ballot marked as spoiled. If you support an improper system can you really expect a good result? I consider a vote to be waaaay too valuable to waste on slime.
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Interesting ideas here. Not sure I can agree with all of 'em, but you've really made me think, so I suppose that's a good thing.
I quit if there is still a Republican dominated house and weak Democrats in the Senate.
And baby alligators are soooo cute!
Elections are a bad way to chose those who manage certain aspects of our society. I favour us ALL taking a turn via a lottery-type selection process for all competent adults.
You know the old saying: "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."
PW,
As long as we're stuck with the abomination of elections then we really do need a NOTA option. There are just too many times these days when we need to tell ALL the politrickians and their political parties that none of them have it right. As it stands now we're jammed in between one set of greedy bastards and another. This cannot, in any way, be said to be democracy.
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Politrickians of any party have no say in the direction our society is taking. It is in the hands of their monied masters now. It has been for quite a few years in case you didn't notice.
Think the Dems are different than the GOP?
Yeah - like Bam-bam is different from Der Shrub.....hahahahahahahaha!
Thanks for the rate!
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The vote must NEVER be casually tossed away on an unworthy candidate or party.
By using your discretion about who to vote for and WHEN to vote or not vote, you prove yourself far, far more a responsible citizen than dolts who "vote for the least bad" choice.
I applaud you!
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Actually the idea of the odd politician taking orders from a money master doesn't peeve me nearly as much as when the politrickial parties do that. We, as I suspect with you folks, have always had a few bad apples.
But when a politrickial party goes bad - and they all have - and can be bought - and they all have - then, even if we were fortunate enough to find a decent, honourable, honest, candidate, he can only (usually) be elected if he joins a party and puts himself under their command.
This won't change as long as we have elections. It's time for a new way of selecting those who manage our society. We need one that cannot be influenced by bribes from the financial system. We need to do it ourselves and NOT put it into the hands of anyone who can be bribed or coerced into doing things that are detrimental to us and our society.
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a. actually count to improving or helping people.
b. fund programs I feel useful
c. on taxes that I feel we should pay or not if they are used for the purpose they want them for (which many are not)
I do not vote for Presidents nor Congressmen or anything having to deal with either. Both have proven to me to be absolutely useless and I hate people who lie or steal.
Thank you......o/e voting to fuck off the rest of the day.
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That puts me 21 years into cynical. Hey, my cynicism is old enough to vote!! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.....;-)
o/e,
.........er, uh, Ok. If you say so.
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as u say:
"They recognize it for the mockery of democracy that it is and chose not to participate in it"
it is and it is not.
just like america at its best and worst.
i shall vote. i a m nervous about it.
the old women who hold the books of the town citizens
all know my family.
"well nice to see you! how are u! how is yr father? how are u?"
arg.
ah, i am maintaining.
dad is dead.
i am doing mental health stuff.
Get well soon.....;-)
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Of course, the bigger quetion is how to keep the big money from corporations and rich people from exterting undue influence or even buying votes from politicians and voters.
Of course I have an idea of how to avoid getting stuck with politicians. We need to do it ourselves.
Let's have a lottery among all competent adults for ALL the jobs done by government. Some jobs would be restricted by education and training but most average people could do any of 99.99% of government jobs - ESPECIALLY those done by "elected officials."
We'd stop that from becoming corrupt by eliminating political parties and the elections they need financial backing for, and promise obedience to big money for. No career political hacks - EVER. Just good ordinary citizens serving their society for a few years of their life on a one-time-only basis.
Imagine how well our society could be managed if we "do it ourselves" instead of handing control to politicians who ALWAYS sell us out to the elite!!
Then we run a one year overlap between succeeding and present groups so that the new person has a year to sit beside the person they'll replace and learn the job from them before they take over.
Easy huh?!
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Look at my suggestion again.
This system would put out of work, out of office, and reduce egotistical officials to the status of unemployed average people. That being the case, just whom do you suggest that I pass this on to? A government official? Suppose you were an elected official, sucking up money as they do, how likely would you be to have any interest in a system that would make you irrelevant?
This might, maybe, possibly, could if lucky, be initiated in a modern, advanced country where a growing portion of its citizens are building an alternate economy and to whom a different method of assigning social responsibility and management could have some appeal.
I cannot see it as being attractive to a country that does not have a nearly 100% literacy rate, just to start with. And how attractive would it be to an illiterate population that would not likely be able to understand the principles of egalitarianism?
How attractive would it be to a revolutionary leader in ANY country who is seeking power?
This sort of alternate system of social responsibility cannot even be easily understood by North American citizens!! Most of US still understand only the hierarchical pyramid of power we now have and DO NOT CONSIDER ANY OTHER FORM OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION TO BE POSSIBLE!!
It's a fantasy, my friend. If we, the two most advanced nations on earth cannot see the value in it enough to implement it, what chance would it have elsewhere?
;-)
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Keep in mind too that any country that implements this sort of egalitarian system will need to be one of the most powerful, if not THE most powerful nation on earth, or it will be invaded at the orders of those egotistical bastards who now sit at the top of the heap in more powerful countries.
Surely you don't think that those who run things now are stupid? Greedy, yes; bastards, yes; conniving scum, yes; but stupid, NO! They will understand in 2 seconds flat what such a system, if allowed to exist, would mean for them and their power. Combine this with any sort of egalitarian economic system such as my Citizens' Capitalism or even socialism and all the old power mongers and greed capitalists would be out on their ass PDQ.
I don't see a rosy future for us without something like this and I don't see us adopting it here in NA either. We'd rather just go along in our irresponsible way, following like good little sheeple, until we find that we've been 'led' over a damn cliff - the situation we're in now, if I'm not mistaken.
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