Reply #82: MIndless voting by the GOP won us the Midterms [View All]

In the short term, maybe, in the long term no.

Putting a crappy democrat into office may be (short term) better than a republican, but ultimately has a significant backlash. (e.g. Lincoln Chafee in R.I). A crappy republican president caused an extremely moderate GOP senator to get voted out.

Putting in a candidate who you truly believe will only pander to corporate interests or mindlessly bend to the temporary whims of an uninformed electorate will ultimately lead the party into political obscurity (just ask the GOP).

In the end, the ONLY WAY to get an informed electorate, unfortunately, is to have things get so bad that their daily lives actually are impacted. That is when they wake up and vote. In retro-spect, the short term effect of a second term of the bush presidency is ugly, but the long term effects are good as more people seem to be taking an interest, voting is up, people are talking and that is only because bush is so bad.