Not voting doesn't mean you don't bother. Jesus.
It's about sending a message about what the "democracy" has become. A nonsense ilussion of choice.
That's not abstaining from voting, that's deliberately spoiling your ballot.
Not voting doesn't mean you don't bother. Jesus.
It's about sending a message about what the "democracy" has become. A nonsense ilussion of choice.
Not voting doesn't mean you don't bother. Jesus.
It's about sending a message about what the "democracy" has become. A nonsense ilussion of choice.
Not voting means you're just a lazy slob that likes complaining on the internet. I'm glad people in Florida that waited 8 hours in line to vote didn't share your childish views.
Not voting doesn't mean you don't bother. Jesus.
It's about sending a message about what the "democracy" has become. A nonsense ilussion of choice.
Would that it were.CHEEZMO;75172155 said:I bet you all wish Obama was a Communist now, eh?
If you're going to approach our electoral system as corrupt and broken, then nothing short of an Arab Spring style revolution can change the system. But if you approach the electoral system as slightly unwieldy method of implementing collective change you wish to see, then vote for your candidates from president to your local township legislator. This is exactly the mentality we had when we organized together and kicked out super crazy teabagger Joe Walsh from US Congress. It wouldn't have worked if we just sat on our sofas with thumbs up our ass.CHEEZMO;75175743 said:Is there a "none of the above" option on ballots? If I dont want to go out and prop up a corrupt broken shitty system then why should I?
If you're going to approach our electoral system as corrupt and broken, then nothing short of an Arab Spring style revolution can change the system. But if you approach the electoral system as slightly unwieldy method of implementing collective change you wish to see, then vote for your candidates from president to your local township legislator. This is exactly the mentality we had when we organized together and kicked out super crazy teabagger Joe Walsh from US Congress. It wouldn't have worked if we just sat on our sofas with thumbs up our ass.
the Left does not exist in the US, besides Bernie Sanders of Vermont.This. The problem is that people on the left tend to fall in love with someone, vote for him wholeheartedly, and then expect everything to work itself out, becoming disenfranchised when it doesn't. Meanwhile people on the right are running guys from President down to town dogcatcher that buy into their ideology and worldview.
If you're going to approach our electoral system as corrupt and broken, then nothing short of an Arab Spring style revolution can change the system.
A Republican president probably would be getting more things done. Terrible, awful, horrible things that would set the country back for decades.
The G.O.P. has been hijacked, and a Romney presidency, despite the fact that I believe Romney is a moderate, would have been beholden to the radical right wingers that got him into office. That's how the G.O.P. works now - the radicals use the threat of a primary challenge to bend otherwise moderate Republicans to their will.
And you can bet that the Tea Party types wouldn't have hesitated to launch a primary challenge against Romney in 2015 if he tried to marginalize them.
All accounts say that Romney was 100% convinced that polls were wrong and he was headed for victory. He was genuinely shocked (and angry) when it turned out that, umm, the polls were right.
Think about that. This guy is supposed to be a business genius yet he believed the unskewed BS over real metrics. Completely delusional.
Part time jobs often become full time jobs over time as employers get more confident in the economic outlook.
Look at consumer confidence, you can say the BLS numbers are fake if you're a crazy fringe guy but how do you explain people feeling better about their economic prospects?
Would probably be exactly the same under Romney, if not worse. They're much closer than either of them would like you to believe. Obama has been a monumental disappointment, often appearing to be little more than Bush+.
Unfortunately, thinking that increasing consumer confidence will increase consumer borrowing and recover the economy, is why the policy of our government/the Fed/banks is to pump money into the stock market, withhold housing supply/freeze foreclosures to create a manipulated housing bubble, in order for Joe Schome to think that all is well and he can go get a new car loan.
This focus on the wrong things will continue to bit us in the ass.
Like it or not this is a consumption economy so if people aren't buying things we will suffer.
I agree. If people have to continue to borrow to buy because wages are the same/lower, we will suffer even more. Obama and Romney are lackeys for those that want us to just borrow more.
So if you were dictator-in-chief, what would you do to fix the problems?
So if you were dictator-in-chief, what would you do to fix the problems?
Let the normal business cycle run, which includes recessions to trim off the inefficiencies. Let speculative lenders and financial institutions book the losses, and bail out the economy from the bottom up. Forgive mortgages and student loans, instead of perpetuating bubbles that are unsustainable. Give priority to real wage increases instead of new financial products that allow for more speculative lending.
The economy needs to shrink enough to be truly supported by a nation of savers/earners... not by a nation of emotional borrowers.
Let the normal business cycle run, which includes recessions to trim off the inefficiencies. Let speculative lenders and financial institutions book the losses, and bail out the economy from the bottom up. Forgive mortgages and student loans, instead of perpetuating bubbles that are unsustainable. Give priority to real wage increases instead of new financial products that allow for more speculative lending.
The economy needs to shrink enough to be truly supported by a nation of savers/earners... not by a nation of emotional borrowers.
He is right we should have got Jill Stein up in this piece.
How Obama, who won the presidency by using the power of the energized masses twice, can't seem to figure out how to trump a broken GOP base is beyond me. Did he not notice how he changed the minds of millions of Americans when it came to gay rights overnight? Odd he doesn't need to be reminded of his job when pertaining to military power.
America needs a martyr. Someone to be hated for a better cause, sacrifice his political career in the process. Real change. Obama is not it. Neither was Romney, of course.
I actually agree with the basics of this post. Seems we'd be much better off if the students and home owners were bailed out, their credit score no longer in the shitter, more money to save/spend. This would definitely create more demand and more jobs. Unfortunately this was/nor is never going to happen. It's why the 'stimulus' that did happen would be the next best thing, though I agree it is still incredibly shitty.
You didn't get a single point I was trying to make if you think that last paragraph is addressing what I was talking about.How is he supposed to do that? The house is gerrymandered to all hell. A good portion of that GOP gerrymandered house is being primaried on the simple basis that they do or don't work with the man.
He's been trying to paint them as obstructionists. He's even just recently put out a proposal for adding jobs with the compromise of giving into tax rates. They still didn't work with him. They've still not given into the sequester. They're threatening government shutdown etc etc.
You didn't get a single point I was trying to make if you think that last paragraph is addressing what I was talking about.
Here's a hint: In baseball, there are actually three teams in the stadium: the home team, the visitors and the audience.
It'd also more or less destroy the private lending market. Whilst you may believe it's gone too far, who in their right mind would give a mortgage or a student loan again, knowing that the government has already seen fit to entirely wipe out that debt once before? It's not like the people who gave out the loan would get anything back. Debt and lending has an important role to play in any economy.
You didn't get a single point I was trying to make if you think that last paragraph is addressing what I was talking about.
Here's a hint: In baseball, there are actually three teams in the stadium: the home team, the visitors and the audience.
I'm convinced that one of the root causes of all the dysfunction in Washington is the two-year House term.
It'd also more or less destroy the private lending market. Whilst you may believe it's gone too far, who in their right mind would give a mortgage or a student loan again, knowing that the government has already seen fit to entirely wipe out that debt once before? It's not like the people who gave out the loan would get anything back. Debt and lending has an important role to play in any economy.
You realize the proposed gun control measures had a lot of popular support right? He's had the public on his side on multiple issues and they STILL didn't get done.
Which is why I don't understand his comment to me. The gerrymandered house has everything to do with why he can't crack the current GOP. National support be damned.
You realize the proposed gun control measures had a lot of popular support right? He's had the public on his side on multiple issues and they STILL didn't get done.
I'm convinced that one of the root causes of all the dysfunction in Washington is the two-year House term.
All politics is local.
@ppppolls 1h
There's 59% support for extended background checks in Georgia...just among Republicans...73% support overall
America needs a martyr. Someone to be hated for a better cause, sacrifice his political career in the process. Real change. Obama is not it. Neither was Romney, of course.
All congressional districts should be drawn by a federal nonpartisan board.
STATES' RIGHTS!
STATES' RIGHTS!
He's completely right, in my opinion. Of course I've always supported Romney above President Obama, who seems completely inept at any domestic issues.
I'm not sure you understand how democracy works. To get your ideas turned into law, you need to convince other people to support them. Being hated usually doesn't help with that.America needs a martyr. Someone to be hated for a better cause, sacrifice his political career in the process. Real change. Obama is not it. Neither was Romney, of course.
I'm not sure you understand how democracy works. To get your ideas turned into law, you need to convince other people to support them. Being hated usually doesn't help with that.
Obama can't just pass laws on his own, regardless of whether he is willing to sacrifice his political career or not.