(April 7, 2016 at 1:42 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:I'm just saying it can,
Yeah... meanwhile I'll be out hunting for supermodels to fuck. Seems like a more productive use of my time!
How much of my time and energy do you think I'm using to drive 5 minutes to a poll and vote? Sanders is motivating voter turnout in record numbers that continue to grow as his momentum builds. If he actually manages, against the flow of the media and the rest of the politics machine, to spark enough voters to get himself nominated and elected in a year when so many seats are up for re-election, it seems very likely that the same voters who do that will also have an impact on the congressional election (which will be on the same day and probably even the same ballot in many states). While gerrymandering does influence those elections significantly, that doesn't mean the majority party never changes. It can and does. It is not naive or wishful thinking to acknowledge that the party majority could swing in a big election year with a lot of seats up for grabs.
I'm not saying this will definitely happen, I'm just saying it's ignorant and short-sighted to believe with certainty that it won't, especially as Sanders's momentum continues to build as the more diverse/progressive states start voting. We all saw what happened in the last round of caucuses.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com