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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is not some giant epiphany, and I'm not sure what you expect people to do with it anyway.

Not be single-issue voters? I don't think I am. I voted for Obama because Dubya's stupidity and profligacy offended me. I voted for Trump because, well, Hillary is an oven-stuffing psychopath.

More seriously, I voted for Trump because of social issues. I don't consider abortion a triviality, and it's really just the foot in the door anyway, particularly for transhumanism. The Project Veritas "I want a Lamborghini!" video wasn't about abortion so much as it was about trafficking in fetus heads.

I am not a single-issue voter on abortion. Rather, the two parties' reactions to that video told me everything I needed to know about their attitudes toward human life.

Going forward, I cannot imagine supporting a Republican who's pushing (or has pushed) this Ukraine nonsense. That might end up trumping social concerns for me. It might, or might not, end up trumping economic concerns.

Your depressing attempt at an epiphany aside, there are pro-war and anti-war wings of both parties. There will be candidates from both parties who are economic idiots, and candidates who are not. Both parties have primary processes that allow these people to fight it out.

There is at least the potential my voice will be heard; pretty sure Hillary heard it.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There are two candidates. Neither represent your interests well, but you'll vote for one of them anyway because you prefer that the other not get in.

Americans lament low voter turnout. I think the voter turnout is far too high. You get what? 40, 50% in a presidential election? If it really reflected the idea of people coming out who truly supported one of the candidates on the ballot, it would be closer to what, 20%?

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Neither represent your interests well, but you'll vote for one of them anyway because you prefer that the other not get in.

There are almost always candidates in the primary who reflect my views pretty closely- Ted Cruz, Ron Paul, and even Trump. I liked Trump a hell of a lot better than Romney, McCain, Dubya, etc., and in that sense my voice was heard.

The problem wasn't the election, it was the way the other side reacted to it. I don't know WTF to do about that; there's no constitutional change that can reasonably stop people from making up pandemics or bitching on Twitter.

I do think the franchise is too expansive. Somewhere along the way, we made the mistake of thinking that everyone needed to vote.

[–]EddieC 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We are in elite Dom 2.0 @ usurper Dom 2.0
and headed for 3.0, if the so-called 'Awake" continue to mind gatekeep each other
-- i.e. suck up each others' time & energy focusing on what's wrong with the current system --
rather than building a mind shift avalanche for usurper-free Dom to & bury the current system.
 
In pictures.