(August 14, 2016 at 2:37 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Min, you certainly mischaracterized my point. I don't think they will care about one vote, but they sure as hell will care about hundreds of thousands. If you think the two majors don't care about preserving their places in the status quo, I've got a bridge you might be interested in buying.
One thing I do know is that trying more of the same will probably get us more of the same.
Bullshit, this is not more of the same. Obama pulled us way from a cliff and we are far better off than we were 8 years ago. I am so sick of both camps who think politics can be a quick fix. Again, we do have a pay gap, and there is currently far too much big money influencing politics. But if we simply think a sudden revolution is possible that is not only absurd, even if you could, there still would be no given, for either party that they would rise to fill that vacuum. This mess didn't happen overnight and there will be no quick fix. But it most certainly is not more of the same.
The constitution is solid, but it is only as good as the people we vote into power. Politics is ugly and it always has been, but no, I am not about to say "fuck it" because there are some people in government I currently don't want there. Our system can work if we make it work.
I've been voting since Reagan's second term, been paying attention through Bush Sr, and both Bill's terms and both of Bush Jr's Terms and now both of Obama's terms. The closest our nation ever came to being fractured and dismantled was the Civil War, but as divided as it may seem right now, we are not even close to that. And as much as Trump loves playing off of Jim Crow and McCarthism our youth especially isn't buying it. Time will kill the GOP, and Trump is the result of the old boy's club running out of lipstick to put on their pig.
The blame for our divisions is the result of the GOP, they don't want to govern, they simply want to be the only power.
