People who DIDN'T. BOTHER. TO. VOTE.

Apathy rules. Lies do also. Fox had a lot to do with who did got elected. And money.

Disheartening.

unnecessary war, attacks on social security, extreme tax breaks for the rich, attacks on water, attacks on technology =- the twin towers
that is the difference between GOP and GOP light, light is better, maybe not best, but better. If we got more light in there then crazy, we could center this country off so much right.

Candidate Gore did everything he could to distance himself from liberalism, and the very successful Clinton administration. He offered more changes like turning Welfare into TANF.

People vote (or don't) based on what the candidates sell themselves as. After all, we're talking about voters who can't immediately recall each candidate's personal and professional history. So they reasonably assume that the candidate is going to put their best argument forward when running for office.

When that argument is "We hate liberals!" running against "So do we!", it's not going to get liberals to the polls.

and it was PLENTY corporatist as any even-handed evaluation of Clinton's record will prove - the difference between the two parties is now beyond discernment save on the "social/culture" issues.They are now identical in their craven servitude to Money.

The economic policies reflect only the minor difference between deep charcoal gray and absolute black. Whis is to say no meaningful difference at all. Both parties are wholly owned subsidiaries of the tenth-percenter New Fascists. That E. Warren and B. Sanders are seen as radical outliers when they are no further left than was FDR, or even EISENHOWER, for Celestia's sake, tells one all that needs to be known about how radically the political landscape has shifted to the hard, neo-fascist right.

Keep losing elections , righteous in not voting. You have to pull the country back in degrees. You see what is wrong, I try and see what is the difference. Yeah I was a Humphrey supporter, he was a good man. but lots of liberals did not vote for him because of the war in Vietnam - yet the man that extended that war was elected instead. That worked out great.

When the campaigns are "We hate liberals" versus "So do we", you're not going to get liberals to turn out.

The great "Third way" experiment was to try and peel off right-wing voters from the Republican party. And if you think a graph of the left-right split of the country is an upside-down U, it sounds like a good idea.

The problem is the graph of the country is an M, not an upside-down U. There's two peaks, and a very small group in the center. The Third Way-style campaigns ended up trying to govern from partway in the right-most peak, on the assumption that the left-most peak had nowhere else to go.

It worked for a while. But then that left peak decided they had somewhere else to go. They stayed home.

Democrats have to actually be Democrats in order to win. Sure, a Democrat from a liberal state is going to be to the left of a Democrat from a more conservative state. Nobody's saying all candidates must march in lock step.

But all candidates must give the voters a reason to actually show up. And "I'll say I'm sorry while I hurt you" isn't a reason.

because it makes no difference! Shit.

The director of the V-Day play we are producing this year just told me that she isn't even registered to vote. I went sorta crazed, telling her about the partisan divide on women's reproductive choice, VAWA support, just drug laws, etc.
Will calm down and continue until she registers and votes!

Women not voting are the worse. Because as women they have more to lose. Inexcusable.

Glad you can agree with my horror at her telling me that...and she's the 'Memories, Monologue, Rant and Prayer' Director for Goddess's sake.

Thanks for Krugman, babsis.

Nothing else. I seriously don't tjink they ever believed a word of it. Their sheep did. worked very well for them too.

We have to learn have the guts to play the same game as well as they do. In the end there'll be nothing left of the country, though.

jesus wept

"In other words: Break the government, complain the government is broken and then push to privatize all the stuff you broke in the first place so the rich can get even richer while delivering worse service."

to George Clooney in a poster! I think that's why he hates PK so much and always denigrates him on MJ. Such a loser, that Joe...

a turd that walks like a manlike object.