Precarious.
Luke, Botanical Dan and I sat at Fern's last night clad in our proverbial "I Didn't Voted" stickers: watching the Wild game and the midterm election results with equal glee. (Note: there were no LP-endorsed candidates in my precinct, and as much as I love Pat Anderson, I couldn't drag myself to the polls to vote for a Republican. I prefer not to propagate the system that selects my new Masters.) We observed as douche-versus-douche election tittered back and forth, contrasting it with varying B-class horror films. The few elections with little-evil candidates were still weighted towards the high-funded Authority bipartisan folk; SSDD.
At this point, one has to have a sense of humor about it; Bipartisan politics are a great deal like pro-wrestling, even if the results will put us into "Freedom Camps" one day.
At least we still retained Rep. Dr. Ron Paul in TX14, but in perspective, it's only for comedic value nowadays:
Ron Paul: "Hey--umm, guys? You're putting us in a handbasket to hell."
Remainder of House, in Unison: "STFU!!!111!!!"
maybe in ought-eight,
-Brenn
pee-ess to consider: If you vote 'major party', you're mathematically hurting any potential third-party movement more than if you hadn't voted at all.
THE MOAR YOU KNOW.
At this point, one has to have a sense of humor about it; Bipartisan politics are a great deal like pro-wrestling, even if the results will put us into "Freedom Camps" one day.
At least we still retained Rep. Dr. Ron Paul in TX14, but in perspective, it's only for comedic value nowadays:
Ron Paul: "Hey--umm, guys? You're putting us in a handbasket to hell."
Remainder of House, in Unison: "STFU!!!111!!!"
maybe in ought-eight,
-Brenn
pee-ess to consider: If you vote 'major party', you're mathematically hurting any potential third-party movement more than if you hadn't voted at all.
THE MOAR YOU KNOW.
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nice post. i take the approach of just writing myself in for each position when I vote.
Of course here in the Free State, we not only had good people to vote for, but some of them WON!!!
Between writing yourself in, and NOTA; the best ways to vote. I hope you did, Clint, and my congrats.
::applause::
Hey .. leave my voting alone damn it!
Lee--we implore you to move to New Hampshire and get elected as State Chair!
We went to the LPNH meeting tonight, and it dragged on for more than 2 hours!!! Your gavel and brevity would be much appreciated.
Why did you go to an LPNH meeting? I don't even go to the MN ones anymore, much to Lee's dismay.
Really, Rex? Aren't you still the Treasurer?
I go for the same reason that I went to all the meetups and whatnot back in MN; to hang with like-minded folks. I don't expect that the Party will actually accomplish anything, but it's good to make acqaintance with the people.
Anyone who voted Dem or Repub clearly has some learning left to do. Hopefully there will be libraries in the FEMA camps.
I admit I didn't vote this time, and I think the game has already been decided, but if non-voters all agree to vote for anything other than a republocrat we force the administration's public relations "Snowjob" to address our grievances. It's all so predictable. The US plays bad cop creating money out of thin air and is militarily aggressive, and the UN plays good cop creating money out of dirty air in a "war a warming." The dynamic I find interesting is the relationships of China, Japan, Russia, and the EU. Japan is dumping dollars and China has much trade with Japan. How Russia runs energy policy could be the key deciding factor in a multipolar world.
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