Ted Rall for August 29, 2012

Nutshell win.

Sounds like a genuine statement of Rall’s views.

I think you meant “Real change requires GUNS.” Anyway, I’m voting Green party. Go Jill Stein!

What better way to turn up your nose at the system than to vote 3rd party?

Yeah, I think Rall has painted himself into a corner. I remember back in the eighties Daniel Ellsberg gave a speech in which he said despite all the crimes of the Democrats, he was going to vote for them because they were still better than the Republicans. If Daniel Ellsberg could vote Democratic, so can I.

As Pancho Villa said: “There comes a time for bullets, not ballots.”

Rocky rocks my vote (for what it’s worth, which isn’t much, regardless of who you vote for). We need more parties in this deeply flawed system of electing our reps., and we all need to party harder (like it’s 1999).

“When you vote for the lesser of two evils you’re still voting for evil.” Bruce (U-Utah) Phillips, Golden Voice of the Great Southwest (miss you Bruce)

Well that’s nice… you don’t remember how Bush got elected his first term…? Remember Nader…? Remember the Left voting for Nader…? Remember the Republican excuse for buying the Supreme Court…? If Nader had said, “I don’t have a chance to win, you guys did your job nominating me, now go vote for someone who does have a chance and isn’t a total idiot.”, then GORE would have won, no question, Republican sleaze and corruption notwithstanding. I lay every death in the Mid-East on Nader’s doorstep. Tell me with a straight face that Gore would have been just as bad as Bush. Gore would have been another Obama, a reasonably decent man attempting to fix a basically unfixable system. Obama tried, at least to some extent. He cares, just a little bit. Bush didn’t care. Romney doesn’t care. You work with what you can get, not with what you want, because you won’t get what you want, period.

you extending that to people who run for third parties too, or are they the ones that prove you wrong.

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2000&fips=12&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0

If you can’t change things at the bottom, then you can’t change them at the top. At this point, the only thing that seems to work positively at all is local activism, sometimes with surprising consequences. A multitude of politicians and pundits huffing and puffing didn’t keep Mr. O from offering to put Social Security and Medicare on the block, but OWS at least caused the Democrats to step back. Vote for who you want, or not at all, but if you want to change the way things are, do something real, too.

“I see no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats, so I’m not gonna vote at all. I’m PROTESTING!”

“I see no difference between ‘Not Voting as Protest’ and ‘Not Voting as Apathy.’”

“But…but…but…”

Its not only ‘no fun’ but stupid, too.