Don't "waste" your vote
Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 1 month ago to Philosophy
“Political campaigns today are all sideshows…A presidential candidate may be ‘drafted’ in response to ‘overwhelming popular demand,’ but it is well known that his name may be decided upon by half a dozen men sitting around a table in a hotel room...The conscious manipulation of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”
- Edward Bernays
- Edward Bernays
Less Government. More Freedom.
The Dem-Rep Monopoly has managed to make the "rules" which serve to exclude all competing parties, We saw in vote 2012 that 98% of the voters voted for collectivism. Clearly, voting (majority rule aka "democracy" holds no answers, and never has!
We, and the whole planet of non-thinkers, need a total restart, without ever again being GOVERNed. Hopefully the Great Collapse coming at us will make the switch to a Voluntary System. Otherwise humanity can kiss it's sorry butt goodbye!
It's with no pleasure I say that this last mid term election cycle was the first time I didn't vote since I've been eligible; at long last, I couldn't see any daylight between the parties.
You know, there are plenty of qualified people in this country who are capable of doing the job of getting us out of this mess, and smart enough to do the job well. But the fact that they are that smart also means that they're smart enough to not want to do it. I mean c'mon, your family will never have anything resembling a normal life, you personally will be instantly blamed for every problem from global warming to the Lindberg kidnapping. Who needs it? Further, these aren't the kind of people that are reading the want ads...by and large, they all have meaningful, rewarding jobs.
Bah!
"The Democratic Party and the Republican Party were just like the old patent medicine drummer that used to come around our country. He had two bottles of medicine. He'd play a banjo and he'd sell two bottles of medicine.
One of those bottles of medicine was called High Popalorum and another one of those bottles of medicine was called Low Popahirum.
Finally somebody around there said is there any difference in these bottles of medicines? 'Oh,' he said, 'considerable. They're both good but they're different,' he said.
'That High Popalorum is made from the bark off the tree that we take from the top down. And that Low Popahirum is made from the bark that we take from the root up.'
And the only difference that I have found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership was that one of 'em was skinning you from the ankle up and the other from the ear down."
http://www.rbvincent.com/hplong.htm
If the advertisers and cable channel folks ever figured that out, the whole landscape would change.
Similarly, we have TWO DVRs because the morons in our area put more of our favorite shows on Tuesday nights and their current technology only allows two-channel simultaneous recording. Other sources allow up to something like 7 channel simultaneous, but we don't see the value prop in the effort to switch.
Reminds me of one of my commentaries back in the pre-streaming era of CD music... I stopped buying 'em because the average CD went for something like $12 and had one or two songs on it that I cared to listen to. I did the math and predicted that the 'market clearing' price of an AVERAGE song should be around $1 or less, and the good ones might command a bit more than that. Guess what? Yep.
So now I pay hundreds of dollars for hundreds of channels, watch programs on maybe a half dozen channels and the cable company was quoted as saying "competition in the market would result in higher consumer prices..."
Morons to the left of me, morons to the right...
Rubbish. No more. Thats what you said in the last election and what have you done but cave in at every opportunity. Prove yourselves NOW. Force that socialist dictator to veto every single bill you repeal, starting with Obamacare and forcing enforcement of immigration limits. Otherwise you are just lying traitors at best.
I vote for the sole purpose of canceling out the vote of some idiot!
Republican voters are irrational cowards.
Democrat voters are irrational fools.
The only rational choice if one cares about individual liberty is to vote against all the DemRep candidates.
Individual Liberty or Serfdom.
Zero is greater than -1.
DemReps have been giving us nothing but negatives for 30 years.
And they never will.
The only way for your third party candidate to have the chance you require is for people like you to vote for them.
Since both of them share a common sacred ground of government controlling citizens. The rest is immaterial as the end results benefit both halves of the Government Party. The only real exception is the lesser death rate of US Service Personnel in wars started with a Rep in the Oval Office versus a Dem. 1 to 18 since the end of WWII. Secular Devil get behind me.
devoid of power, but it makes me feel good. -- j
me feel good, even though my bucks are small.
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here in the online Gulch. . we appreciate you! -- j
And like most good jokes, it's not a joke at all.
McKinney is better out of office than in office.
Same could be said about all of the looterus politicus.
Ted Cruz... would be a hard choice for me. But I can't see him getting the nomination. RP or Walker, I would probably vote for.