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Re: Four Years Of...
Posted By: ChristTrekkerDate: 11/29/12 4:18 a.m.

In Response To: Four Years Of... (PerseusSpartacus)

Supported the Goode/Clymer ticket, because Obama/Romney are peas in the same pod, two sides of the same coin, twin heads of the same Duopoly. The GOP (after despicable shenanigans at the state and national conventions) picked themselves a candidate who might as well have been a clone of John McCain, so it didn't surprise me at all that they fared just as well as he did four years ago.

We desperately need states to adopt Condorcet voting systems, so we wouldn't be locked into the same two bad choices time after time because of Duverger's law. I'd love to see some decent libertarian/constitutionalist options. Unfortunately, pols of both "major parties" are addicted to power and are unlikely to do anything that hurts "their camp", regardless that they're supposed to be there as servants of the People, not just their party.

We also desperately need the voting public to get a clue. Everybody hates Congress (~12% approval rating?) but the incumbent reelection rate is upwards of 90% every time. If you don't vote for something different, why do you expect anything different?

(No, I'm not bitter or cynical at all, why do you ask?)

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