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(21,115 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)A: The 1%'s secret black box vote "tabulators."
The 1% "won"!
Surprise, surprise...
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)That's what people really need to wake up to.........
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Don't use the excuse that ''it's rigged'' in order to cop out on voting. That's BS.
Just in case
doc03
(35,349 posts)vote for.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)But to their surprise that wasn't enough to prevent him from being reelected.
PSPS
(13,603 posts)For as long as I can remember, it's always been the same. People give "Congress" a very low approval rating but they do like their own representative. It's the latter fact that results in 95% re-election. The miracle of gerrymandering, another practice that is practically as old as congress itself.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)THEY COULD NOT BE BOTHERED TO VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS. NOW IF THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT ... THEN THEY SHOW UP .. SUCH A DISCONNECT BETWEEN MOVING FORWARD PROGRESSIVELY AND BLAMING DEMS FOR NOT GETTING ANYTHING DONE. IT'S ALL ABOUT VOTER TURN OUT AND DEMS SHOULD BE ASHAMED. YOU REAP WHAT YOU SEW: A HOUSE AND SENATE WITH A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts). . . they only vote for their particular Congress critters
polynomial
(750 posts)Knowing the psychological, physiological make up of our society may very well be in that Metadata secret files that is originally held close to vest by the Senate Democrats.
Begs the question about that Metadata and shows the capability to analyze very important information can be used for profiteering.
Yep they sure can, yet in the most practical sense that Metadata should be public as much as the science and technology of weather forecasting, as in under graduate and graduate studies 501.
It seems insane, or a perfectly natural way to converge to a real Think Thread, as in this WTF moment.
Yes it is an absolute oxymoron notion in play that almost 94% of an electorate survey claim our Congress is dysfunctional yet vote them back in office is the contrast in the new politics of the future we here at DU we can help make this center a stage as argument in constitutional self-evident theory.
Scientist, engineer, professionals or any really seasoned self- studied person can understand as Orson Welles said We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Orson Welles sure proved chaos is easy to develop in his radio hacking called war of the worlds by alien invasion of the thirties. Now we have professional hate radio hackers like Limbaugh and Hannity.
College students can sift through this, knowing what they learn is the majority of time alone self-studied in reflection to ascend and realized some interesting patterns where that WTF moment is what the ancients call a paradox. Zeno the most famous authors of paradox.
As my blog name or handle suggests my personal studies into mathematics those areas known and connected to what is called the polynomial can be an incredible trip bumping into paradoxical time space.
When I found out that one of Zenos paradoxs is the center piece of a safety program in the monopoly railroad transportation industry it made me understand why trains especially freight traffic takes so long, or is really delayed, especially gasoline can be stored on tracks to adjust prices.
Or, that same principle is applied to the other monopoly in electronic security exchange industry, where millisecond or nanoseconds are an advantage to make millions in less than a blink of an eye. Or a covered up micro crash by Bloomberg in his multibillion dollar network that is a monopoly. It is all very crazy and no-where near the Democracy we think.
Imagine being a banker connected to both ends of this paradigm. Do you really understand now how it is a fixed system
plus control the media is a tremendous one percent advantage.
From my view the Orson Wells radio drama of the thirties is in progress enhanced by visual graphics communicated in the electromagnetic spectrum that geometrically shape our culture in a new exploitable way. We the people are getting hammered.
What really makes the drama is this unknown new technology the Internet coupled with the computer age. All this combined with that Democratic majority especially the boomer age that really is layered in the basic transitions.
Many of the boomers like my-self witness the progress from vacuum tubes through transistors then the integrated electronics especially the quick ascension of the slide rule to calculators then the computer we have today.
A good majority of that trickle down consumer issue is those special or secret grants via our tax money given to the college educational system or privatized companies by the military industrial complex, then the electorate goes through a bait and switch politics that has to pay into their original investment again. It keeps going until as George Bush says America is resilient, they knew 911 was going to happen.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)1). People did not vote based on the candidates prior record, or Congress' record. It's still us against them. Dem vs Rep.
2). Uneducated voters. I'm willing to bet that the same people that were selected for voter approval are not the same ones that voted.
3). We, as a country, are absolutely terrible at getting off our asses to vote. From what I've read, this past election was the lowest voter turnout, ever. You can thank voter restrictions as part of it. Way to go GOP!!!. The other part is laziness, and stupidity in not getting up and voting. They are willing to live with the consequences. Well, based on what has happened so far, we are going to see some very bad circumstances over the next 2 years.
cynzke
(1,254 posts)How could that happen? Perhaps the bellyacher's stayed home and let the 14% APPROVERS cast a vote for them. Missing votes count. Congratulations to all those who disapproved but couldn't be bothered to cast a vote in opposition. Missing voters managed to RE-ELECT their representatives IN ABSENTIA.