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Originally Posted by wilthrill  Well it IS a two-party system but when both parties throw up the SAME candidates those of us who call ourselves conservatives and speak at length about how we support IDEAS not party have a choice.
We can ignore our own pronouncements, support someone just because they are republican (or not democrat) and REINFORCE the same behavior we complain about. Nothing changes and we sow the seeds of our own destruction all the while complaining about that which we have done. In the future dictionaries will have our picture next to the word HYPOCRITE.
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We can bite the bullet, live up to what we say, and lose ONE election. The country will, at least temporarily, suffer but we will have a chance 2 years down the road and 4 years down the road to correct and the losing party, if they are actually paying attention and concerned about winning future elections, will see their mistake and nominate a REAL conservative next time.
I pick the second and so I will "waste" my presidential vote on a third party.
The other so-called conservatives can "waste" their vote reaffirming their hypocrisy and a broken system!!!! |
I think the system is so stylized and stratified now that nothing will change it short of a different kind of revolution - one more like the one the French undertook in 1789.
When "We, the people" start picking off Congressmen, lobbyists and business CEOs that are depriving us of our say while they stock and feed the gravy train, then America might get back to the practice of a government that realizes it's beholden to the people for its existence. Things will probably have to get a lot harder for us before that happens - but then again, it's looking like that might start happening pretty soon, too.
Some retired oil exec was on the weekly WLOX show tonight, talking about $4.25 gas this summer with a smirk.
I just wonder if our troops will fire on their own people when the people hit the streets. Remember, even the Soviet troops wouldn't do that when the USSR took a dump.