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Have fun voting for anti-vaxxers and other ignorant pieces of shit.
She still makes me wanna hurl, though.
But once again you're too fucking lazy to do your job as a journalist and do basic research. You know, like reading the name of the newspaper at the top of the web page! Your wiki page says that you teach at the college level, did you let your students get away with this shit as well?
And again, how does it feel throwing your lot in with every tinfoil wearing asshole who fight against things like public vaccination and fluoridation of water? Do I really need to tell you which parts of our population benefit from those measures the most, and which candidates actively fight against them?
I'll give you a hint: it wasn't the right who successfully fought off fluoridation in Portland just a few years ago.
she's trying to stroke the "independents" who are dumb enough to still support the Iraq war crime. make them feel like their not utter rubes, even tho they are. their vote counts as much as yours.
Next election, enjoy voting for the presidential equivalent of GoodTime SpaceGuy or whatever his name is.
My review of Picketty appears today:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2WXYN3IPN5…
Presidential popularity contests, while exciting, don't change the pro-corporate/pro-rich policies one whit either. The executive isn't even all that powerful.
Obama wasn't selected by us, Geo W. certainly wasn't, and neither will be Hillary. All their media posturing is so much fakery to buoy the emotions of the hoi-poloi into coming up with moderately convincing election counts.
You can't tell the difference between the Washington Post and the Washington Times? Jesus.
You're becoming like one of my crazy old Aunts who forwards me emails about Obama being a seeeekrit muslim spy and is afraid she'll be magically abducted over the internets.
Piece of advice. Please, for the love of god, at least try - TRY - to post sober before noon.
I almost did it for Obama's first term but my friends convinced me to buy into the myth and give the Democrats another chance. After four years of continued corporate welfare, an expanding surveillance state, torture and illegal murder of civilians I wish I hadn't made that symbolic gesture of supporting a Democrat.
Related: Senate passes resolution in support of Israel 100-0. Libertarian hero Rand Paul laments the resolution does not go far enough.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/se…
Ralph Nader.
Bush v. Gore.
That is all.
Part of that is because of laziness and/or stupidity, but the left has to own up to its increasing number of litmus tests for candidates. You have to hand it to the "conservatives" (most of whom really aren't, but they don't understand the concept well enough to know better): All one of their candidates has to do is to make some dumb statement about abortion or immigration, and they've got a base. On the other side of the aisle, a candidate has to try to be everything for everyone to establish any sort of base.
As for third parties, I'd have a lot more respect for them if they did something more than show up every four years with a candidate who is usually condescending scold (Nader) who campaings on the theme of "you don't deserve me"
Hillary Clinton certainly portrays herself as an amoral person who would do anything to get a vote, but she will certainly be better at important things like civil rights and judicial apporintments than whatever sociopath the republicans put out there.
I just reread "So Long and Thanks For All the Fish" by Douglas Adams and this passage springs to mind: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162557-…
Guess what, you purist assholes, no one gives a shit about you if you don't vote, and that's why politicians don't give a shit about the young or the poor. Black folks in Mississippi don't have to worry about a tea party senator because they voted. Not voting doesn't solve the problem.
And if you can't figure out the difference between Al Gore and George W. Bush then you deserve George W. Bush as president for life.
Gore lost the election all by himself. There are far more people who didn't vote than who voted Green. Those people were Gore's for the having. Gore could have convinced some people to vote Democratic instead of Green. But he didn't. The milquetoast moderate right approach doesn't draw people.
Nader brought in people who wouldn't have otherwise voted. The Democrat-as-GOP-lite politics of the last few decades are just driving voters away from the polls.
1. They won't give a shit about you if you refuse to vote for any of them. You might think they already don't give a shit, but what policies do you like that the Republicans support? Can you name even one?
2. SCOTUS nominations. A 5-4 decision doesn't have to feel like a punch to the gut.
3. You're throwing your lot in with crazies who don't support basic public health concerns. The folks who are fighting for better wages and civil rights are awesome, but the tinfoil wearing nutjobs who confuse the uninitiated about vaccines and the like are causing serious, preventable harm.
At the very least listen to a newborn with whooping cough before you support some asshole like that. You understand what a lack of basic public health does to poor and minority communities. Criticize the Dems all you want, but don't support something worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-run…
Vote for anyone you want in the primaries. Then bite the bullet and vote for the lesser of 2 evils if your candidate doesn't win. Not voting out of some misguided belief that "this will show 'em" is ridiculous. Hard to imagine the world wouldn't be a better place if Gore had been president instead of Bush. We have a system that's by design very difficult to move, hoping that some savior candidate of your dreams is the answer is, again, stupid.
Don't forget that you can both vote for a candidate and work against his/her policies, however emotionally unsatisfying that may be. I would urge you, as you work on the longer piece, to please spend more of it on the "democracy is not just about voting" angle, which is great, but keep your reckless vote-throwing philosophy to yourself.
God forbid you should have to dirty your hands or tarnish your moral and ideological purity and make a difficult decision (lesser of two evils)...the whackadoodles on the right will be happy to make it for you.
The aggression of Nazi Germany united much of the world. Something good can come from something thoroughly awful.
Exactly. People like Treacle get exactly what they deserve.
We can try to invade the primaries, but the Democratic establishment really, really doesn't want to work with the left at all.
" I actually, warren will never..."
Can't you even proof your comments?
"I honestly never heard of washington times."
Then don't quote media who are completely unknown to you.
Yet another nonproofed comment.
And it really doesn't matter to anyone who you'll vote--or not vote--for.
Allow me to boil it down for you, America gets off on a winner takes all system of government. Bitch whine and moan about it all you want but that's what gets us to shoot our load. We won't ever shoot our load over a Parliamentary system, let alone grasp the concept of proportional representation. That is just the way it is.
You can go all long form explanation at some point in the future that you want. You'll just be spinning yourself deeper in the hole of "I don't really understand the political system or culture I'm trying to write about".
Kinda bums me out to say that. But only kinda. I am an asshole after all.
I'd be searching the want ads NOW if I were you. Because clearly your expiration date as a "journalist" is way past due. You don't even pretend to try anymore. Man. Oh. Man.