The Dumb Ass Vote

[kpete]

[Maedhros]

1. This is not behavior restricted only to Republican Party candidates....[n/t]

[hifiguy]

2. No, it is not.

And that is sad. It didn't used to be that way in the Democratic Party.

[Maedhros]

3. Right now, one of our own candidates is "paid off by the corporations who took your house and job"

and she's got hordes of swooning admirers.

[hifiguy]

4. Fanboying/fangirling and screaming like Bieber fans over The Inevitable One

is apparently vastly more important than trivialities like systemic corruption, a complete lack of any principles other than self-advancement by whatever means possible, long and close associations with some of the vilest people on the planet (Kissinger, Blankfein and Murdoch to name but three), and a complete unwillingness to answer simple yes/no questions.

Somehow a good share of DU has turned into Tiger Beat.

[Maedhros]

5. It's personality-based politics, when we need issues-based politics. [n/t]