Ted Rall for March 31, 2010

Um…I think Ted Rall is saying vote or perhaps take America back away from scammer’s.

Not yours.

How different would things have been in 2000 if 600 more Floridians showed up to vote for Gore

How different would things have been in 2000 if 600 more Floridians showed up to vote for Gore

they did show up, but there were many fewer machines in their neighborhoods. many other scams were used to disenfranchise them as well.

Gore had more votes anyway. Voting means nothing if the Electorate has its own agenda.

It’s God’s will that Republicans cheat.

Interesting ‘message.’ There’s something a bit profound in this comic.

Power to the people!! Im with ya Ted!

It does suggest that withdrawing from the process gives you *no* choices, and reacting in a knee-jerk fashion means you only have one choice in our system. There’s also activism, which puts you into the process instead of limiting your activity to pushing a button.

I’ve thought for some time now that we need to do away with the political parties. You want to get elected? You have to stand up in front of god and your intended constituents and tell them what you believe in. No more hiding behind a name. No more institutionalized money. No more job security for politicians.

He got the message.

Bruce, agreed. Heck, even a hard-core Massachusetts, quiche-eating, overeducated, liberal guy like myself has voted for Republicans when they were the better candidate. More than once, even.

Well, we should be grateful that we are even allowed to participate in the process, what with insurance backers, like AIG, or Kaiser, and so on, on Wall Street, killing any chance of a public option or premium caps in the Senate healthcare bill, lobbying as hard as Geithner and Mark Patterson used to for Goldman Sachs, now both in the Treasury.

Did the guy in the scarf die of a broken heart in the last box?

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.

We are now all just shareholders in U.S.A., Inc.

If you want your vote to count, you need to buy more shares in your respective congresspeople and senators.

Isn’t that what the Supreme Court has recently ruled?

We’re not in deep thought, just deep shit.

Will you whiners just shut up and let big business run the government without your meddlesome interference?

“Will you whiners just shut up and let big business run the government without your meddlesome interference?”

Well they do have more money than me so I guess that automatically makes them know better than I do. God gave them that money.

We’re rich in spirit.

Neocon is being ironic Sirrom, he is personifying a Coulbert spin off of sorts, or an Andy Kaufman.

Neocon is being ironic Sirrom, he is personifying a Coulbert spin off of sorts, or an Andy Kaufman.

Right on motive! Activism is the real change we can believe in! Its the reason why the Republicants are afraid of the tea baggers.

I’m personifying a Jon Stewart.

Who can afford a buck-fifty in this Republican utopia?

^ And Wells Fargo utopia those scoundrels are wiping my account clean with overdraft fees!

<=====^You Tell’em Boss!

He is trying to say that the system is designed to demoralize the voter and the end result is a fifty percent turnout of eligible voters is seen as positive. They want less voters not more and the public is happy to oblige.

After you do that, go out and drive the wrong way down the freeway.

Dear Americans,

You NEED more parties. A party system is no Utopia. However, it take money, organisation and a lot more to be in government. Individuals can’t do it alone. That is the grand fiction of the USA, no any individual cannot be president. It take more than that. It takes Organisation. The best part of the party system is it promotes compromise and cooperation. That is required if you are to be leaders for a country of 300 million people.

But the two parties you have now are a trap. They are institutions that are only self interested and do not advance common political ideas in any constructive way.

Probably the Green party is the way to go because it is big enough. But it has to be a real concrete effort, not a fringe effort. Right now your 2 party system is a joke to the rest of the world. Most places in the world maybe have 2 main parties but lots of other viable ones that function to slowly introduce the fringe ideas of change into the mainstream. In other countries the 2 main parties change over time and get replaced. This use to happen in the US but it stopped for some reason. I don’t know why but it maybe happend around the time the Republicans switched from being the “progressive” party to the Democrats. You stuck with the same 2 parties rather than construct a new better one to encompass the new ideas of the time (like reasonable people would do)

Anyway what you have now is Zero chance for fringe ideas of real change to get incorporated into the system and so you get more and more polarised extremes. The system is just getting more and more fascistic - that is, offering simple rhetorical solutions that are out of touch with reality. Like using scapegoats and war as answers to domestic problems: It won’t work. And both parties offer the same policy with superficial differences of social symbolism (the culture wars) which is ironic in a country that prides itself on being free (people should be free to make these cultural symbolic choices on their own and not legislate them) while the underlying economic issues - class justice - are forever ignored - even talking about them is restricted by a corporate media who have managed to turn the language of emancipation for the average person (unions, social welfare, etc) into boogyman words.

Get your act together and start acting together. Stop trying to be perfect idealistic individuals who don’t get involved with the corrupt government because your uninvolvement just serves to make it MORE corrupt.