Reg
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I don't know, Mess. It's like the whole thing with Republican voters voting in the Democratic primary just to help Hillary win. Obviously people who do this are not concerned with a fair and honest election they believe it's right to cheat or steal to get what you want. Guys like Rush who go on the radio and promote this are openly announcing to the world they are enemies of Democracy and the United States but does anybody care? No, not really because they see it as a minor thing and could even argue that those voters scamming the vote to help Hillary are really just casting votes for what they really want in a way...a Republican win. They either don't see or don't care that they are helping rig an election and defeat true democracy. They also figure if they can get away with it, it must be fine. If a guy can go on the radio and sell the idea it must be fair. That's where we are at in this country and there is no law that says the party elders must step in...it's a judgment call. Right now they feel it's fine for this to continue and it is their party so if they are fine with it why should we worry? All that can happen is the Democrats lose. Hey, if anybody got out too early it was Edwards but the media and party elders put the heat on him to let Hillary and Barack have the spotlight that belonged to the "historic" candidates. Edwards was not "historic" enough. In the next election the Republicans can run a Hispanic woman and an Asian transvestite and then they will have the "historic" candidates. The thing about democracy is it provides a very wide avenue to manipulation and the only thing to police this is a voting public that has the ability to identify when something is wrong. How can they do this when you have think tanks dreaming up new ways to confuse them and influence them to narrow their view to only be as wide as their short term personal agenda?
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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I don't know, Mess. It's like the whole thing with Republican voters voting in the Democratic primary just to help Hillary win. Obviously people who do this are not concerned with a fair and honest election they believe it's right to cheat or steal to get what you want. Guys like Rush who go on the radio and promote this are openly announcing to the world they are enemies of Democracy and the United States but does anybody care? No, not really because they see it as a minor thing and could even argue that those voters scamming the vote to help Hillary are really just casting votes for what they really want in a way...a Republican win. They either don't see or don't care that they are helping rig an election and defeat true democracy. They also figure if they can get away with it, it must be fine. If a guy can go on the radio and sell the idea it must be fair. That's where we are at in this country and there is no law that says the party elders must step in...it's a judgment call. Right now they feel it's fine for this to continue and it is their party so if they are fine with it why should we worry? All that can happen is the Democrats lose. Hey, if anybody got out too early it was Edwards but the media and party elders put the heat on him to let Hillary and Barack have the spotlight that belonged to the "historic" candidates. Edwards was not "historic" enough. In the next election the Republicans can run a Hispanic woman and an Asian transvestite and then they will have the "historic" candidates. The thing about democracy is it provides a very wide avenue to manipulation and the only thing to police this is a voting public that has the ability to identify when something is wrong. How can they do this when you have think tanks dreaming up new ways to confuse them and influence them to narrow their view to only be as wide as their short term personal agenda?
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
