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In reply to the discussion: A Party that loses an election and blames voters for not showing up at the polls . . . [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)It is BS crap like these the corporate Democrats do behind the scenes and making false promises to the contrary which turns them off and has them feel that the whole exercise of voting is useless...
Seeing the dialogue and frustration expressed from independent voters online here in Oregon in the discussion of Prop 90, which lost worst than any other ballot measure tells me how much people are tuned out right now the way that the two party system "controls" us rather than is responsive to us the way a democratic process would dictate.
I think where we saw a lot of synergy in those discussions was that even though people are frustrated with the current system and the way our two parties control it, there are better ways like Instant Runoff voting, and lowering the threshold for the primary season to allow third parties to have their own primary ballots to allow their members to participate in voting for their own candidate the way Republicans and Democrats do then, instead of being forced to have their own outside convention or election to pick who represents them outside of the primary process. Democrats, Republicans and independents as grass roots entities in those discussions started to see the light that this was big money trying to warp our system and take away *PEOPLE* representation of their party candidates by taking party identities and endorsements out of the picture, and how measure 90 is a step back from real democratic processes, which many in California and Washington also feel after they put in place that mess of a system earlier.