Post by acptulsa on Apr 7, 2016 17:44:19 GMT -8
2016 is a year of unprecedented weirdness.
The Democrats are about to superdelegate a treasonous madwoman into their nomination. And Fox is playing the anti-establishment fervor we stirred up in the GOP masterfully--not only is their halfhearted but constant and unrelenting criticism of Trump (which always and mysteriously seems to fall wide of the target as if accurate gunnery is forbidden in those hallowed halls) working perfectly to promote him--but when they have finished selling rank and file Republicans on nominating their biggest guaranteed loser this time they will be able to restore their tattered reputation by saying they told us so.
Meanwhile, the general public--that sane mass of independent voters who used to think the people had a voice in who the Democrats nominate and who find carrying a voter registration card with an R on it distasteful ever since Dubya embarrassed the hell out of the country for eight years--are beginning to wake up to the pair of lemons the major parties expect them to choose from in November.
Never has there been a better chance to make lemonade. Never has there been a better chance to wean people from the two party system, because never have those two parties pawned off on us a worse pair of losers.
So, when are we going to stop playing with the trolls sent to distract us from this fact and begin the hard work of making the name of the most sane alternative to the major party insanity known to people? We have our work cut out for us making a sane candidate famous. When are we going to stop playing with these paid nuts and roll up our sleeves?
Gary Johnson may not be much. But now that voters have gotten an eyeful of Clinton and Trump, he's bound to look as good as gold--if we can only get people to the point where they recognize his name. That's something the media is obviously not going to help us with.
Is this site capable of being an asset in this task? Or is it so dedicated to giving free speech to paid spammers that we need to organize this movement elsewhere? Because this place is being overrun for a reason--we aren't going to get this job done by pretending that this political theater actually means something to sane people. As far as most people are concerned, all it means is we're screwed. If we begin now, all we have to do to convince people that the only thing standing between the Libertarian Party candidate and the White House is their vote. And with a pair of evils so evil there's no way to choose between them, they will see the wisdom of that--if they actually hear someone say it.
All Bernie voters need is to be told that Gary Johnson believes in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, so even though he'll cut the corrupt federal socialism, he won't interfere with more manageable state level socialism. As for the many conservative independent voters who realized that The Fascist Party abandoned them when they woke up to what a gem of a vice president they had gotten in $#@! Cheney, all they need to see is someone publicizing any sane alternative.
Hillary Clinton really, really wants to go down in history as the first female president of the United States. And she obviously has what it takes to pull that off. She has no charisma, to speak of. She doesn't have the trust of the citizens of the nation. But she does have name recognition. She has superdelegates in her pocket. And she has friends. Friends like Bernie Sanders, who was kind enough to act as a lightning rod for the Left, thereby allowing Clinton to avoid the more frightening Democrats and appear to be reassuringly middle of the road. And friends like Donald Trump, who has been absolutely masterful in playing to just enough Republicans to be a real threat for the nomination, while turning off three quarters of the population by revealing himself to them as a buffoon.
And thanks to the fact that they read the polls and realized that no one trusted them any more, Fox was able to put it over by saying mean things about him, and will be able to rebuild its own reputation when it's over by saying, 'We told you so.' Everyone's doing their job. The anti-Establishment fervor that we did so much to stir up caught them somewhat by surprise in its vehemence, but they're making adjustments, and they will pull it off. It's going to take miracle to avoid a Clinton administration. Even if they have to completely destroy the Republican Party to do it.
The GOP is not written into the Constitution. It did not even exist when that document was crafted. It rose in the ashes of the Whig Party. That party abandoned its principles in an attempt to straddle the fence over the slavery issue. It took to putting up famous generals as candidates, and doing whatever it could think of to preserve the bit of power its party cronies had accumulated, and lost its way. It became fractured, and it became irrelevant. The Republican Party is merely the group that saw opportunity in the Whig Party's demise, and rose to the occasion.
Now the GOP is the Whig Party. It is fractured. It is run by people who have no idea at all how to appease those to whom they are beholden, and also please the voters who call it home--or who believe a conservative has no home in the U.S. It is being battered about by a media which is completely dedicated to bulldozing a path for Clinton, seemingly without a care whether the GOP survives the process or not.
It's hard to get interest in a third party in this nation. The thing about the two party system is votes don't get split. If there is one conservative party and two liberal parties, the conservatives win all the elections--and vice versa. So, the wags call the Libertarian Party the 'Losertarians'. But if the Clinton bulldozers destroy the party, I don't see Americans putting up with a one-party politboro. So, something must rise in its place. Will the GOP be rebuilt? If so, will it be rebuilt by the same establishment tools, or by us? Or will it be left in the dustbin of history, and will something less ingrained in the Establishment rise in its place?
When the Republican Party rose from the ashes of the Whig Party, full of vigor and determined to undo slavery no matter how much the Establishment of the time wanted them to get back in the boat and stop rocking it, it was under this kind of leadership, and with this kind of grassroots passion.
'The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.'--Abraham Lincoln
That history really can be repeated. But history does not, in fact, repeat itself. History takes the directions it takes by the dedication and sweat of human beings--people with direction and purpose, who know where they want to go and have the courage to strike out in that direction.
The Democrats are about to superdelegate a treasonous madwoman into their nomination. And Fox is playing the anti-establishment fervor we stirred up in the GOP masterfully--not only is their halfhearted but constant and unrelenting criticism of Trump (which always and mysteriously seems to fall wide of the target as if accurate gunnery is forbidden in those hallowed halls) working perfectly to promote him--but when they have finished selling rank and file Republicans on nominating their biggest guaranteed loser this time they will be able to restore their tattered reputation by saying they told us so.
Meanwhile, the general public--that sane mass of independent voters who used to think the people had a voice in who the Democrats nominate and who find carrying a voter registration card with an R on it distasteful ever since Dubya embarrassed the hell out of the country for eight years--are beginning to wake up to the pair of lemons the major parties expect them to choose from in November.
Never has there been a better chance to make lemonade. Never has there been a better chance to wean people from the two party system, because never have those two parties pawned off on us a worse pair of losers.
So, when are we going to stop playing with the trolls sent to distract us from this fact and begin the hard work of making the name of the most sane alternative to the major party insanity known to people? We have our work cut out for us making a sane candidate famous. When are we going to stop playing with these paid nuts and roll up our sleeves?
Gary Johnson may not be much. But now that voters have gotten an eyeful of Clinton and Trump, he's bound to look as good as gold--if we can only get people to the point where they recognize his name. That's something the media is obviously not going to help us with.
Is this site capable of being an asset in this task? Or is it so dedicated to giving free speech to paid spammers that we need to organize this movement elsewhere? Because this place is being overrun for a reason--we aren't going to get this job done by pretending that this political theater actually means something to sane people. As far as most people are concerned, all it means is we're screwed. If we begin now, all we have to do to convince people that the only thing standing between the Libertarian Party candidate and the White House is their vote. And with a pair of evils so evil there's no way to choose between them, they will see the wisdom of that--if they actually hear someone say it.
All Bernie voters need is to be told that Gary Johnson believes in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, so even though he'll cut the corrupt federal socialism, he won't interfere with more manageable state level socialism. As for the many conservative independent voters who realized that The Fascist Party abandoned them when they woke up to what a gem of a vice president they had gotten in $#@! Cheney, all they need to see is someone publicizing any sane alternative.
Hillary Clinton really, really wants to go down in history as the first female president of the United States. And she obviously has what it takes to pull that off. She has no charisma, to speak of. She doesn't have the trust of the citizens of the nation. But she does have name recognition. She has superdelegates in her pocket. And she has friends. Friends like Bernie Sanders, who was kind enough to act as a lightning rod for the Left, thereby allowing Clinton to avoid the more frightening Democrats and appear to be reassuringly middle of the road. And friends like Donald Trump, who has been absolutely masterful in playing to just enough Republicans to be a real threat for the nomination, while turning off three quarters of the population by revealing himself to them as a buffoon.
And thanks to the fact that they read the polls and realized that no one trusted them any more, Fox was able to put it over by saying mean things about him, and will be able to rebuild its own reputation when it's over by saying, 'We told you so.' Everyone's doing their job. The anti-Establishment fervor that we did so much to stir up caught them somewhat by surprise in its vehemence, but they're making adjustments, and they will pull it off. It's going to take miracle to avoid a Clinton administration. Even if they have to completely destroy the Republican Party to do it.
The GOP is not written into the Constitution. It did not even exist when that document was crafted. It rose in the ashes of the Whig Party. That party abandoned its principles in an attempt to straddle the fence over the slavery issue. It took to putting up famous generals as candidates, and doing whatever it could think of to preserve the bit of power its party cronies had accumulated, and lost its way. It became fractured, and it became irrelevant. The Republican Party is merely the group that saw opportunity in the Whig Party's demise, and rose to the occasion.
Now the GOP is the Whig Party. It is fractured. It is run by people who have no idea at all how to appease those to whom they are beholden, and also please the voters who call it home--or who believe a conservative has no home in the U.S. It is being battered about by a media which is completely dedicated to bulldozing a path for Clinton, seemingly without a care whether the GOP survives the process or not.
It's hard to get interest in a third party in this nation. The thing about the two party system is votes don't get split. If there is one conservative party and two liberal parties, the conservatives win all the elections--and vice versa. So, the wags call the Libertarian Party the 'Losertarians'. But if the Clinton bulldozers destroy the party, I don't see Americans putting up with a one-party politboro. So, something must rise in its place. Will the GOP be rebuilt? If so, will it be rebuilt by the same establishment tools, or by us? Or will it be left in the dustbin of history, and will something less ingrained in the Establishment rise in its place?
When the Republican Party rose from the ashes of the Whig Party, full of vigor and determined to undo slavery no matter how much the Establishment of the time wanted them to get back in the boat and stop rocking it, it was under this kind of leadership, and with this kind of grassroots passion.
'The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.'--Abraham Lincoln
That history really can be repeated. But history does not, in fact, repeat itself. History takes the directions it takes by the dedication and sweat of human beings--people with direction and purpose, who know where they want to go and have the courage to strike out in that direction.