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In reply to the discussion: I gotta rant on the pension cuts in the funding bill, it made my 77 year old mom cry! [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)and the intermittent voters are sufficiently affected by the party's Nurse-Ratched-like apparatus of shame for anyone who dared to not blindly vote Dem '10 or '14
even with radical campaign finance reform the system is very far gone: look at all the DU threads noting how Hil's actually no better than Jeb (and Jeb's ties to the ones writing Uganda's anti-gay bill are looser than hers!), and then concluding with "I'll still vote/sacrifice my firstborn for her": it's like saying "don't step on me or I'll *gum* you!"
in 2001 voting third party was disallowed, since 2006 primaries have been sabotaged, and nowadays the party demands you show a receipt that you've driven at least 200 people to the polls before you can complain about any boots on your neck (after all, you just asked for that boot in November)