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HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 12:04 PM Jun 2013

Whenever I think "voting serves no purpose" . . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/michelle-obama-clashes-heckler-fundraiser-043338613.html

. . . . sadly, after reading the comments section of Yahoo, CNN, Business Insider and other sites, I'm compelled to go back to that kiosk every time and cast those votes.

I know. It's Sad. THIS is our lot in life. Economically, the two parties are a wash. Military spending: Wash. Stacking the Cabinet with corporate toadies: Wash. Real action on environment: Wash. Universal Health Care: Sorry, voter, Wellpoint's CEO needs mo' mansions. Real action on fossil fuels: Sorry, voter, we swim in light sweet crude and dry off with dollar bills.

But . . . siigggggggh . . . . I cannot let the likes of these hatemongers, these bastards who still want to live in either 1955 White America or 1984 Reaganomicon . . . I cannot let these kinds of sub-idiot knuckledragger Klansmen take the country over. I cannot live in the ChurchWarMerica, the steamroll-the-poor nightmare, the white-makes-right stupidity these people WANT. I cannot take seriously anyone who, by subscribing to a faith-based government and economy and military, has allowed someone else to do the thinking for them.

Didn't it come out recently that Romney actually had a corporatized plan for the White House, complete with flowcharts, performance-based evals and a Six-Sigma-like management structure? What if that had come to pass?

These vile comments prove that Republicans are getting more and more willfully hateful and stupid each and every year, and this is what our vote means: keeping their kind of candidates away from power.

What kind of a set-up IS this? Are we now nothing more than babysitters for problem children brat kids who don't know any better and refuse to get smarter (thanks to corporatized media)?

Where are our Huey Longs? Where are our FDRs? Where is OUR vision of an egalitarian society and fairer economy? Does it exist only in ones and zeroes?

I expect better from politics and the people that are supposed to be seriously participating in it, and goddamnit, I'm not getting it.
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Whenever I think "voting serves no purpose" . . . . (Original Post) HughBeaumont Jun 2013 OP
The Huey longs are at your local boards nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #1
 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
1. The Huey longs are at your local boards
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 12:08 PM
Jun 2013

And city councils. That s here they stay, or end their careers. We need to encourage them to move on, (ahem Todd Gloria I am talking to you, local city council member)...but first you need to find who they are...and participate in hyper local politics.

This is like critical, but most people only, if we are lucky, pay attention to national politics.

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