Very interesting. There is a lot of “blockage” and work to do to get any third party on the ballot in every state and be able to participate in the debates. I so want a third option.
I must respectfully disagree. Third parties must be built from the bottom up not the top down. A president can only sign a bill passed by the Senate and House. Energy would be better spent identifying and electing progressive members of the House and Senate.
I remember how pissed off I was when the Democrats here in New Mexico blocked the Green party (which had been building here) from being on the ballot with dirty tricks. And of course the Republicans are busy making it harder and more restricted to vote under the ruse of non existent voter fraud. Neither party wants competition. They make that perfectly clear.
Encouraging a politically educated voter population, making it easier and not harder to vote and opening the process to competition and REAL choices seems pro democracy and worthwhile to me.
I am pleased that I viewed the entire video, and am thankful that you posted it, moosehammer.
I agree about third parties, and have added The Justice Party to The Green Party, & Roseanne Barr’s Green Tea Party, to my list of options to fund and vote for. Last presidential election, I funded Ralph Nader, and voted the Green Party gals for prez & vice-prez.
Iowa currently leading our electoral politics news annoys me, in view that Iowans recently fired three state supreme court justices, because these now ex-justices ruled the state’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional.
Republican candidates there are now pandering to this sexual hysteria. Gingrich recently told a gay man in Iowa to vote for Obama. The YouTube video with the most Dislike votes ever belongs to Rick Perry (his “Strong” video?). In the movie “Bruno”, Ron Paul calls him a queer, then in a YouTube’d radio interview about it later, laments that he did not physically gay bash “Bruno”. Etc.
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Very interesting. There is a lot of “blockage” and work to do to get any third party on the ballot in every state and be able to participate in the debates. I so want a third option.
I must respectfully disagree. Third parties must be built from the bottom up not the top down. A president can only sign a bill passed by the Senate and House. Energy would be better spent identifying and electing progressive members of the House and Senate.
I remember how pissed off I was when the Democrats here in New Mexico blocked the Green party (which had been building here) from being on the ballot with dirty tricks. And of course the Republicans are busy making it harder and more restricted to vote under the ruse of non existent voter fraud. Neither party wants competition. They make that perfectly clear.
Encouraging a politically educated voter population, making it easier and not harder to vote and opening the process to competition and REAL choices seems pro democracy and worthwhile to me.
I am pleased that I viewed the entire video, and am thankful that you posted it, moosehammer.
I agree about third parties, and have added The Justice Party to The Green Party, & Roseanne Barr’s Green Tea Party, to my list of options to fund and vote for. Last presidential election, I funded Ralph Nader, and voted the Green Party gals for prez & vice-prez.
Iowa currently leading our electoral politics news annoys me, in view that Iowans recently fired three state supreme court justices, because these now ex-justices ruled the state’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional.
Republican candidates there are now pandering to this sexual hysteria. Gingrich recently told a gay man in Iowa to vote for Obama. The YouTube video with the most Dislike votes ever belongs to Rick Perry (his “Strong” video?). In the movie “Bruno”, Ron Paul calls him a queer, then in a YouTube’d radio interview about it later, laments that he did not physically gay bash “Bruno”. Etc.