2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIs there a date when people will be "updating" their voter registration?
June 16 sounds tempting, but I don't want to miss out on a better party.
Jackilope
(819 posts)Viva_La_Revolution
(28,791 posts)JimDandy
(7,318 posts)Registrar of Voter Offices across the nation apparently are going to be flooded on that day in a coordinated effort by people "updating" their voter registrations.
The name of the movement can be attributed to this Huffington Post Blog by Steve Bhaerman:
Independents Day: A Peoples Upwising
07/05/2014
...As we mark July 4th, Independence Day this year, maybe we should celebrate Independents Day as more people than ever before are declaring their independence from a two-party system where the vast majority of the American people havent been invited to the party. Not that we arent hit up for presents. Not a day goes by I dont get an email from the Democratic Party with an alarming headline and a piece that goes: The Koch Brothers ... ooga booga blah blah blah, send us money!
Since I am an equal-opportunity masochist, Im on the conservative lists too, and those emails go: Obama ... ooga booga blah blah blah, send us money!
Now maybe this isnt exactly like the shell game more like the extortion game. Its not enough that the commonwealth is being drained of resource by the uncommonly wealthy Koch Brothers. Now their thievery is being used to steal even more money from the American people in the guise of fighting them. As anyone who has voted Democrat as the lesser evil will attest, you can count on the Democrats in the same way Charlie Brown could count on Lucy pulling away the football every time he tries to kick it.
However... an upwising is afoot. More and more Americans are wising up to the political sideshow as a debate and switch shell game, where weapons of mass-distraction are used to keep us from addressing the fundamental issue of governance whos in charge of whos in charge?
...Mark my words (or, if you prefer, mock my words) there will be an independents movement in 2016 that will change the political landscape forever. These independents independent of the Democrats, the Republicans, and the corporate media who have until now defined the parameters of political conversation will naturally call forth the interdependence of progressive greens and libertarian conservatives looking to create a new alliance that finally reunites progressives and populists.
(more at link)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-bhaerman/independents-day-a-people-fourth-of-july_b_5553378.html
Steve Bhaerman was very prescient...
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Apparently also "National Lasagna Day".
larkrake
(1,674 posts)I will be going Indy with relief, unless a Progressive party forms by then
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)the "Loser" party start then?
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)I won't be changing mine. But, my votes are still mine to give as I see fit.
YouDig
(2,280 posts)larkrake
(1,674 posts)Ya know, I'm listening to the 3rd party candidate tonight. He is going to win frustrated Dems and Indys, Hill better watch her back, she will be hustling into Nov. No rest for her, Johnson is getting attention because neither Party is being smart. He wont appeal to Repubes. He has 10% now, he needs only 5% more to get into the debates. Since the DNC has seen fit to shun Indies, it is the only place for them to find peace and a voice. His VP is an interesting and smart orator.
This is going to be fun to watch, lots of popcorn. Lets work on our down ballots folks, brace for any outcome
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Why?
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)No need to wait, because voter registration is always open.