Yes! French voters were angry with the Conservative Gov over corruption & high unemployment & so are we.
41%
No! Voters are not informed because the news prefers to cover small The Tea Party rallies to large Progressives rallies.
59%
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We're close, but we have not yet reached a time when voting must be discarded as a means to an end.
The complete transparency that the deep depravity of Obamanation has provided has also provided a narrow window of opportunity for natural persons to begin to use elections for the good purposes they always could have, but haven't. It's time to use elections to register a protest that must be taken seriously — a firm majority forcefully voting for **NONE** of the corporate party's candidates.
In the Corporate States of America elections have served as a barometer for the corporate-state to frequently measure the real level of societal dissidence. No other polls matter. Street demonstrations and civil disobedience haven't had any effect, because near all the demonstrators have later dutifully supported the corporate party's interchangeable (R) & (D) candidates. Elections have been serving to provide proofs positive that a supermajority of participants (voters voting) affirmatively wish to continue to have done unto others and to themselves whatever corporate persons decide.
In past elections approximately half the eligible voters have refused to vote, but the choice to abstain registers as being an acceptance of what is — an acquiescence to corporate persons deciding what will be done; how it will be done; and to whom it will be done. Not voting is a "Yes Massa!" vote.
We will have definitely reached the time to discard any and all consideration for the possibility of using elections for some good purpose if the electorate — in this time of Obamanable transparency — continues to behave normatively uneducable, as it has been corporate obediently "educated" to be. If voters continue to be the mindless mass they have been, then the corporate party could switch the labels on the ballots for its two 2012 candidates and we'd see Tea Party voters voting for Obama and "progressive" voters voting for bat shit... because there's effectively no discernible material or substantive difference between them.
2012 provides what could be a truly historic opportunity to begin to use elections for a good purpose — mass protest — a majority voting for any whomevers the individual voters actually trust (likely to be mostly write-ins) indicating the various alternatives that individual voters believe the solution could and should be, but not voting for any of the corporate party's Republicans or Democrats.
It's time to use elections for something other than a struggle between corporate collaborating liberals and conservatives fighting over which should get more rewarded for perpetuating perpetual war than the other; which should get more rewarded for increased ruthlessness in economic exploitation than the other; and whether catastrophically changing weather patterns should be (R) denied or simply (D) ignored.
The American people discarded elections as a means to any good end generations ago. It's a time ripe now for them to seize an exceptional opportunity to use elections for revolutionary purpose. It's time for them to begin to put the ballot to good use, before the bullet becomes the only means available.
David J. Cyr
Delhi, NY
http://www.chenangogreens.org
Complete tranparancy can not be attained for obvious reasons We elected someone to make these decisions. I have trust in Obama His record is not perfect but pretty good if one looks at it fairly , not falls for Fox Beck Hannity Rush smear/ rumor mill .IF voters are too lazy to vote Shame on them They should at least respect those who died for our Freedom to vote unlike many countries.
I agree with dianhow. I will be voting for President Obama, but I believe that if we vote for Democrats and Bernie Sanders type Independents we would have a more transparent government.
The change would be a challenge, but in the long run we would be a much better nation and I believe many of our jobs would either return, or we could creat new ones and keep the corporations from taking over.
Progress means changing, and ever changing. We will always need voting, but we need to educate our citizens better so we'll never revert to the dark days of gop control.
Whoever controls the Megaphone controls the masses. It's as simple as that. The oligarchs control the Megaphone.
IF we all get out there and keep telling with factual truth of what is happening --over & over & over again --we could have the same results as France. I know several right here in RED country that are angry and ready to make some big changes eliminating any who are blocking progress because of hearing the facts.