- 07 Nov 2017 23:09
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I am never going to vote for some liberal corrupt establishment person. Never. I am not a liberal. Why should I vote for one? For me voting should be very simple. You vote for the politician that is not corrupt, isn't bought and paid for by special interests---who most resembles your own political philosophy and who has an established, predictable track record of coping with many important issues with success. You examine their opinions and their policies on a wide range of issues. If you are satisfied on most of the issues and the formulas for remedying the problems? You got a person or candidate you can vote for.
I wanted Bernie. But the Democrats did not want a progressive for the lead candidate for the presidency. They wanted a corporate, establishment politician like Clinton who admired Kissinger and who's father was a staunch Republican that backed Goldwater. She is hawkish and she is corrupt as hell. Could not in good conscience vote for her. For me? The USA needs to spank and punish and jail a bunch of corrupt bankers, corporate CEO's and international capitalistic oligarchs and corrupt billionaires like the Koch brothers, etc. and the liberals in the Democratic party are not going to accomplish that. They curry favor the same as the Republicans do in that scene.
Jill Stein was the alternative and she is a medical doctor with excellent plans for change in DC. So? She is for me. Socialist. Green. Scientific. Decent and trustworthy. Won't win? true. But, I don't vote because a politician might win or not. I vote for who can reflect my political philosophy and implement needed change the way I see it. For me only policies that favor working class and middle class people and help people get child care, health care, decent wages, free educations, and affordable lives are worth the effort. Everything else is not.
I also find stupid appeals to support a 'woman' just sheer nonsense. I don't vote for a politician because they have a vagina and breasts or because they have a penis and testicles. I vote for them because of what kind of political philosophy they have and why they have it. Jill Stein is a woman I would vote for. Carly Fiorina, Hillary Clinton, Nikki Hailey etc NEVER.
If the USA falls into some corrupt two party system that wants to sacrifice the good of the entire country to favor very wealthy people and never deal with real issues of critical import? Then it needs to go down. It even says that is how one should react if the politicians and corruption penetrate into the government. It says so in the constitution. The people have the right to overthrow a corrupt government. So? No mercy for corrupt politicians with absolutely no ethics because they are paid for and don't give a damn about average people anymore. To hell with the entire system if it no longer works. Those are the rules anyway.
I also don't like people who vote for someone because they are Black. or Latino or Chinese, or x or y or gay or straight. For me all that stuff is for people who are one issue and one thing voters with no brains.
"Oh, she is African American. Oh, he is gay. Got to vote for him." What the hell? Ben Carson is a black man I would not vote for in a million years. Neither was Herman Cain. I am not a liberal so I never voted for Obama. He is a liberal. A moderate one and wishy washy. I am very strong left. Not liberal moderate. I don't care he is African American he is a liberal moderate negotiating within the system and he is not a radical and not a socialist. I am not going to vote for him. For me? Be honest about politics. Don't vote for superficial crap reasons of someone is Black or gay or not, those are social issues and frankly in my opinion how critical is a person's skin color or what they do sexually in the privacy of their own home? Is it going to affect the day-to-day lives of massive amounts of citizens with policies that are impactful that either create mass misery or mass relief and improvement? Politics is an art but also a science. It is both. If you stick with the issues that are not about invading people's bedrooms or figuring out if they are of European ancestry or not...and that is your END ALL criteria for some very important political formulations? Then you are a fool that doesn't know much about politics.
You either deal with political philosophies with some intelligence---that means doing your damn homework. You don't know what capitalism as an economic system's history is about? What the premise was for it emerging to solve economic issues? Then don't be an idiot. STUDY the THING. Go read Adam Smith, Lloyd's of London, the East India Company, Dutch merchants and bankers, and the entire history of the capitalist economy til you do understand it. Same for socialism and for every other political philosophy. I really despise people who hate something they don't even understand. If you are going to hate something? Be an expert on your object of hate. Don't be an ignorant who knows not a damn thing about it but you propose to abolish and hate it because someone told you some rumor about it or because it is what your family thought for generations and no one bothered to find out why they were against it in the first place. That is for DUMMIES.
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