Democratic Party Disappointing You?

[Member2019]

Never vote for the lesser of two evils ...

With all due respect, I do sometimes pity the American voting public. I mean, if you feel that both parties are shit, what is a viable alternative?

If enough people didn't just vote one of the two parties, we might actually get some choice.
Libertarians win seats and offices all-the-time, just not much at a national level.

I refuse to vote the lesser of two evils.
I also refuse to blindly vote party lines, including Libertarian.

But I find myself voting for Libertarian candidates the most in the end, although I will readily omit one if I don't believe in the individual candidate, just like any other.

 

[FlyingWallaby]

Re: Never vote for the lesser of two evils ...

If enough people didn't just vote one of the two parties, we might actually get some choice.
Libertarians win seats and offices all-the-time, just not much at a national level.

I refuse to vote the lesser of two evils.
I also refuse to blindly vote party lines, including Libertarian.

But I find myself voting for Libertarian candidates the most in the end, although I will readily omit one if I don't believe in the individual candidate, just like any other.

Yeah...from what I understand, it mainly happens at the grassroots level...and independent parties never really have a good financial base. Correct?

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

I see a lot of conflation going on here Prof. I assume you must be saying that the idea of packaging a group of principles a party believes in (The Contract with America) started with FDR's New Deal. And all I can say to that is, "Yeah, so what?"

I'd like you to find a specific component of the Contract which Bill Clinton has claimed credit for.

If Bush didn't cut taxes during a War, we might be in better financial position than we are now. Most of his spending is War Spending or as it can now be called "Wealth Transfer to Halliburton." Bush also created the Prescription Drug Benefit program but all that turned out to be was a gift to Big Pharma especially given the architects of that entitlement all left his administration to go in business for Big Pharma. How convenient that turned out to be? Get your position mandated by the Gov't.

Foolish spending and deficit destruction is what Bush will be remembered for.

You can take that voting approach on the local level. But that doesn't work on the National level unless the 2-party system drastically changes. Without a National identity we're nothing more than a large group of Fiefdoms.

Pretty much what they claim the dems for being all about, but the opposite:

No new taxes, many rebates and allot of spending..

I am glad I dont have children, because some will have to pay the declining government income and large credit card bill someday... The government can always and should make some cuts, but this out of control right now..