Sad state of affairs

[Reverenddel]

My opinion would frighten most people.

I joined the GOP locally for awhile, thinking if I could get in there, i could maybe exert influence, or add something.

NOPE! TOTAL popularity contest!

The guy whom I thought would do a fine job, they besmirched because he was "vocal" on issues that they did not want to address.

My frightening thought? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE RADICAL NATURE OF THE LIBERTARIAN INVADED BOTH THE GOP, AND DNC!?!

Picture this... If you're a Libertarian, organize enough of your kind to OVERWHELM the local levels of whatever party fits you better... then move to state levels... then national...

Like an infection of freedom.... an STD OF DEMOCRACY!

"WE BURN! WE IRRITATE! BUT WE LIBERATE!"

[jnojr]

I just got back from voting. I was the 125th person to vote at my polling place. I guess we get the kind of elected officals we have because most people don't care enough to vote.

Frankly, I think it's a good thing most people don't vote. They don't know what the issues are, they don't know where the candidates stand, they don't understand economics... they're either blindly pulling the R or D lever, or they're voting the last name they remember from a brightly-colored sign or mailer.

[Diomed]

Picture this... If you're a Libertarian, organize enough of your kind to OVERWHELM the local levels of whatever party fits you better... then move to state levels... then national...

Pure fantasy. Libertarians can't organize effectively - it's a part of being a libertarian, apparently. What makes them/us so devoted to liberty makes getting collective action like herding cats.

[wylde007]

you may be one of those folks who always get back more than you put in? Huh? Maybe?

I hope that was in jest.

[zephyp]

you may be one of those folks who always get back more than you put in? Huh? Maybe?

I hope that was in jest.

I dunno cuz I have no idea what yore income/tax situation is. Maybe you are or maybe you arent...

[wylde007]

I can GUARANTEE you that I put in FAR MORE than I get back.

[Tweaker]

The alternative is voting for your own twit. Voting for a twit that can dupe you into thinking he isn't is still voting for a twit. Can anyone remember a politician that didn't end up bad?

I have had no reason to dislike my state level reps Rob Bell Delegate R-58th, Emmitt "You're welcome for restaurant CCW" Hangar R-Senator 5th?. I also like everything I have known O'Donnell to do so far (ducks shoes hurled at my soapbox). George Allen (in office before I voted in VA) talked stupid about guns then voted perfectly most all the time IIRC.

I would love to see if the first two could withstand the corruption that is the District of Calamity via higher office. I would bet on them.

My local dog catcher is a real humdinger as well! There is a suspicious arrangement between he and the local Asian eateries though. I smell a rat...er cat.

[Tweaker]

I wonder what you all think of Ghandi. I mean massive noviolent nocompliance. Hmmm? That would be my grand strategy against this government.

I think of his daughter who under threat of death IIRC carried out the forced sterilization of many many Indian people in order to reduce the population.

Death panel fears got you down? She literally came after your ballzac and lady bits with a knife, with evil intent. Billary Cuntoon wouldn't dream of such boldness!

Other than that, I don't think or know much about Ghandi. Somehow I do know as much as I'm interested in knowing. I recall vaguely that he was against personal firearm ownership.

[Tweaker]

More taxes collected?

Nothing wrong with paying some tax sport as long as its used for Constitutional issues...you maybe one of those folks who always get back more than you put in? Huh? Maybeee?

I'll wager a wheelbarrow of future Obamabux that, Sport was suggesting that the income collected by the federal .gov, via all of its slimy tentacles is not just sufficient for his ideal .gov expenditures, but is in fact a massively free market stifling leviathon worthy pile of revenue. I bet he means it should be halved, then halved again and there will remain sufficient income for a proper .gov that the founders created/intended.

[sarcasm font] Or he's just douchin' it up like he do. [sarcasm font]

[Kreutz]

When I was almost done with college I remember getting $6,000 back for having only worked a little while that year. Helped pay for our wedding.

That only happened once.

[graybeard321]

I just got back from voting. I was the 125th person to vote at my polling place. I guess we get the kind of elected officals we have because most people don't care enough to vote.

Frankly, I think it's a good thing most people don't vote. They don't know what the issues are, they don't know where the candidates stand, they don't understand economics... they're either blindly pulling the R or D lever, or they're voting the last name they remember from a brightly-colored sign or mailer.

The one think my father and I could not discuss is politics, he accused me of being a lemming and voting for whoever the NRA supported and I would respond by asking him who did he ever vote for that the steel workers union did not tell him to vote for. So maybe we are all a little guilty of voting blindly.