badcattitude: why you should be a one issue voter

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[–]Friday_The_13thRussian Bot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was a one issue voter for a long time, and that has essentially made me vote 3rd party candidates every time after 2008. My one issue was stopping the wars that started under W. I naively voted for Obama, because he promised to be the anti-Bush in his campaign, but he ended up being Bush on steroids.

I became a two issue voter with Sanders' campaign, adding M4A to my list. These are two issues that will never pass as long as money is involved in politics, and Sanders becoming a cuck to the Democrat Party and shilling for Hillary and Biden while they make him sit in a corner and watch really turned me off of him. He built a movement and I'm proud of him for that, but watching him turn it into a donation fund to the right-wing Democrat Party pissed me off. What a coward.

I'm back to being a one issue voter now, but it's not war or M4A, I've given up on those. I'm now voting against anybody who was for COVID lockdowns and mandates. I'm a healthcare professional and it has cut down my job market by about 80%, which is infuriating now that we all know the "vaccines" don't do anything and are dangerous. I knew it from the beginning, seeing a probably 1000% increase of STAT Brain MRI's for headache (not normally a STAT diagnosis) after patients took the J&J "vaccine." I decided from right there, fuck that, I'm not taking any of them. I was offered to take it in December 2019, I declined. It was just an offer at that time. Little did I know that I'd have to move to outpatient care a year and a half later to avoid the CMS mandate.

So now, I have to plug my nose and vote for Republicans. Not just any Republican, any one that was opposed to the mandates. 3rd Party votes as I've done in the past just aren't going to cut it anymore. Maybe this is the way they want it to be and I'm falling into the trap, but this shit is effecting my livelihood, and all for nothing.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can't find fault with anything you said.

[–]Orochiwe don't need no water let the mother[honk] burn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A very libertarian angle, but if the left and the right could unite on shrinking/dissolving the feds, I'd love to become both a bipartisan and populist issue.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

donkey vs elephant is a puppet show. the real game is being played on another board, one beneath the surface of electoral politics, because while democracy driven flavors of the month come and go, bureaucracy is forever and it has ALL gone gangrenous.

we have for so long allowed so many unaccountable agencies to determine what can be bought and sold and built and allowed and to allocate such vast sums of capital and steer and gatekeep entire areas of science that they have become odd chimeras of feudal rulership and endemic regulatory capture by the regulated. trying to find any daylight between them and their corporate partners has become impossible. it’s one blob. one beating heart.

this is the real illness.

and left unchecked, it will be a fatal one.

crony corporatism is the antithesis of free markets and free people. it is subtle subjugation posing as safety and self-serving circular reasoning posing as “proof of bonafides.”

it’s easy for big companies to comply with $2 million in new compliance costs and studies and reporting. it’s a stake through the heart of small business. and that’s why big business likes it.

they do not want free markets, they want the free profits that come from preventing others from selling against them.