| I get to vote tomorrow! |
[Mar. 30th, 2009|02:55 pm] |
Tomorrow I go to the local fire house to vote in the special election in New York's 20th Congressional district for the United States House of Representatives.
The main bit of my preparations is my talking points, just in case a TV newsie shows up to interview me. Not that this is likely -- I have a real face for radio, but it's in the same spirit of planning what I might buy if I win a lottery.
Here's what I have so far:
The Republican Party should step aside and let a real opposition party step up. Our political system has grown into something that only works well when at least two active sides putting forth effort in good faith.
The Republicans aren't up to that any more. All they are is a fund raising machine tied to a bunch of media shouters and their fan clubs. They have no desire to do the work of governing. Many of them publicly ridicule it, even while being paid with our tax money.
And did you get a load of their "budget"? Let's see any business get away with releasing a document as flimsy as that. Let's see any high schooler get away with that. The dogs didn't just happen to eat the Republicans' homework, they were fed it with gravy on top.
The Democratic Party, whose candidate I just voted for, is far from perfect. But at least many of them are trying in good faith to do their jobs. But, under the American system of doing things, they need people working along side them to point out where their assumptions may be wrong. The Republicans aren't up to it, so we should look elsewhere.
A third party that did some proper organizing could have a respectable roster of candidates ready by 2010, next year. By 2012, they could have a decent number elected to the House of Representatives, and be started on the Senate. By 2016, they could field viable candidates for all offices, including President.
Who should the new second party be?
Last November, I voted for Obama and Gillibrand under New York's Working Families party line. Perhaps that party can do the job. Or, seeing as how the Democratic party covers the spectrum from medium-left to medium-right, perhaps a party can fill the growing gap to their left. You newsies are constantly claiming that nobody wants socialized medicine; wouldn't it be fun to actually put that to a vote? All we have to lose is our high infant mortality rate.
You people in the news media have a role to play -- admittedly, a larger role than I like. Right now, your methodology is to take any statement a public figure makes and ask yourself, "Who would object to this the most?" Then you go to that group's spokesperson of the day and confront them, in hopes of getting a juicy quote on the record. For instance, you go to Peta every time there's a news story about meat. Never mind that Peta is so small and discredited that they've gone after the town of Fishkill (where I work) twice, just because of its name, and have apologized for it at least once.
So how about helping America fix its political system by going a bit further afield for reaction quotes? It's not as if you can sit around and pretend you don't have growing competition. Talk to some political organizations that still try to represent actual voters. Leave the Republican sound bytes where they belong, on partisan "news" releases and the comedy shows. |
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whether you voted for Obama or not, we are stuck with a Democratic party majority that is not in opposition. If we had elected John McInsane, where would the Democrats be? Mortified at losing for third time, they would have either:
fell in line with McInsane and destroyed their party, OR:
reverted to the New Deal policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Which option do you think they would have chosen?
Reid and Pelosi are Wall Street puppets, also. Now we face deluded Democrats with no effective opposition, a Brzezinski-Wall Street - Goldman Sachs (Obama's biggest contributor) Federal Reserve puppet President, and New World Order cap and trade/carbon credits/carbon taxes, that no industrial economy can bear, let alone one that is in a Depression!
Meanwhile, lets keep shoveling money at banks and insurance companies. Would you blame that on Bush? Let the puppet President promote war with Pakistan, all part of Brzezinski's demented, documented plans, to play all countries against each other, the ultimate target being Russia. (On this score, if Brzezinski were to move to Britain, we would really be in for it!!) Let the puppet push for his "'civilian national security force' which would be as financially and manpower enabled as the Army". Let the puppet push for his Green Brigades, who will one of the few places left to get a job, before long. Their job being to dig thru our trash cans!!!
didn't mean to go off on you ... that was some cut and paste.
Lemme put it like this:
paraphrasing former Governor / former pro wrestler Jesse Ventura
"Politics is like professional wrestling. We all say, "I'm gonna womp that guy, I'm gonna kick that bastid's butt... When it's all over, they go out to dinner with each other, and marry each other's sisters!"
I think people have been hoping for destruction of the nominal party of the rich, since perhaps 1906. It ain't gonna happen soon, if we don't stop acting like the latest public relatons gimmick Prefident, is gwine save us from the last liar. | |
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