General Discussion

Way too lazy today to type out my thoughts.

You did a very good job of typing themout for me.

I am thinking - maybe Jefferson is right. (Was right? His ideas are eternal, though the man is dead - so don't know which tense to use.)

Political parties are an abomination. they become way too powerful and then they are able to let themselves get sold off to the highest bidder.

Maybe we should set it up so that there are no more people running for office. Ever.

Just a list of principles, and as a voter, you get to choose. For instance, you look at your ballot in Nov 2014, and it reads:

Universal Single Payer Health Care VS. Insurance for Profit.

Making Marijuana Legal (even for Simple Recreation) vs Continuing Drug Wars. (Currently 52% of all Americans believe this - end the drug wars, legalize the product)

Trimming the fat out of Dept of Homeland Security VS. expanding Homeland Security.
(If you choose to cut them back, it is for the purpose of making it so they no longer have one million dollar MRAP tanks to hand out like door prizes. (Cost of each vehicle - over one million. Right now, some 67 counties in California have 'em! But the tanks are a war territory item that will not really help the communities they go to. And some of the communities getting these items cannot afford to keep libraries open, or have full time teachers for schools!)

Restoring and expanding Social Security - trimming back Congressional pay checks VS curtailing Social Security via the raise of the age to 67 and then the CPI cuts. (Another item that over 60% of Americans would go for - keeping Social Security and making it stronger, not weaker.)

After the election, those policies that get the most votes get put in place, by a legal and secretarial staff that drafts the language and then they are law.