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That philosophy fails when

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:04:00 +0000

In reply to I get the choosing between A

That philosophy fails when all the As are crooks. If you can't vote for B, you can't clean house, so cronyism and corruption rules.

The old Southern Democratic machines were very corrupt, and the new Republican machines are getting that way. In Russia, it's much worse of course, but pretty much every 1-party state sinks into a swamp of corruption sooner or later.

And the notion that A and A is "true freedom" is just plain ludicrous, whatever the context.

Note the context---when there

EmmaZahn — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:26:56 +0000

In reply to You vote for the person you

Note the context---when there is really only one dominant political party, ideology is mostly bypassed so you look for other aspects of the candidates on which to base your vote. Again, this applies more to the local and state level candidates.

You vote for the person you

Resistance — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 02:24:08 +0000

In reply to I get the choosing between A

You vote for the person you think would be the most competent in the job.

Nader proved that people don't do that.

Instead some voters thinking they had a better idea; the result was they got (A) corporatist shill. Corporations Rule both parties.

The people get the ratchet affect because they cant or wont try to get off the treadmill.

The people thinking they could manipulate the deeply entrenched powers.

I get the choosing between A

EmmaZahn — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 01:37:52 +0000

In reply to True Freedom

I get the choosing between A and A and sometimes A. Georgia has been de facto a one party state my entire life and decades before. The label changed from Democrat to Republican but most of the faces remained the same. In one way it was actually better. At the local and state levels your choice is between individuals, not parties or ideologies. You vote for the person you think would be the most competent in the job. At least that is how it was before candidates began running against Washington more than against each other. Now they compete on who can make the most outlandish claims against the Federal government as if it was all that relevant to offices like county clerk or coroner.