I strongly disagree with the no-vote approach. Voters should clearly show the power of their say-so matters even if the field of candidates isn't inspiring. The reason they are not inspiring is for the reason I'm about to state. In the meantime, there actually are lesser evils to make sure you vote for. Otherwise, do you want Michelle Bachman, Rick Santorum ?
The post Maxflynn quoted speaking about the hold of money and corporate power might better have elaborated on the way it effectively controls federal politicians through the system of legalised bribes, called lobbying.
Also over time, the Supreme Court has been drip-drip packed by Presidents with Judges who will see things the corporate way when the cases come to them. Most stupidly, notoriously and harmfully, now with this "corporations are people" shit and how their money is "speech".
Instead of not voting, it would help so much if the people became involved.
A - if not
the - fundamental thing needed to be done to break the nasty system, is to outlaw big money in politics.
I am also convinced that it can be done.
I'm going to repeat here what Cenk Uygar puts over when he explains and promotes Wolf-Pac, in my own way.
www.wolf-pac.com
The founders suspected that one day federal politics may become so corrupt it would be incapable of reforming itself. So they made sure there were other ways of obtaining constitutional amendments to deal with such situations.
If enough States can agree to a proposal put at State level to call a convention, it will happen. It is possible to call a single issue convention, which is the intention. This will make it more likely to happen and avoid dealing with various other cans of worms a constitutional convention of the States might give rise to.
Wolf-Pac and their activists met with scorn and derision from the establishment. Apparently they stood no change . Well so far they through direct contact, enthusiasm and the quality of their argument, managed to convince majorities in several State legislatures to sign up to the proposal.
Not just Democrats but Republicans too, at State level are sick of the system in Washington. Or enough of them are. Or enough of them know the people are really really sick of it even if they keep re-electing the same corrupt arseholes.
It's true, if you ask people what they think of the system of legalised bribary, Republican voters as much as Democrats hate it.
Did you know, at national level, the candidate with the most money in campaign wins, 95% of the time.
Ending this is key to "getting the country back".
Obama spoke big about making change to the game in Washington but ended up doing nothing and Cenk thinks, didn't even try.
Hilary is the same or worse. Never mind the label on the tin, Democrat. It means very little in this regard.
There are a lot of determined people campaigning for Wolf-Pac and their success is beginning to snowball.
I truly believe it can succeed.
I wanted to contribute to it but I couldn't , as I am a foreign national.
But I can do a little bit for it, by speaking up for it in places where there are Americans present, and I think there are a few here.
Cenk has done so many clips on the Young Turks channel both directly promoting Wolf-Pac and indirectly where he talks about a problem and points out how things could be different, how they could be changed, IF we got the big money out of politics.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks/videos
I find myself greatly influenced by the common sense, principled consistency and passion of Cenk. He also happens to be one of THE funniest guys on the internet, period. To that end you will get a great laugh from many of the funny stories they also feature on the channel.
So Americans reading this, I say get involved or donate. I am convinced this effort is key. If the goal is achieved then it will be the lynch-pin to changing all the other things that really will "get your country back".
