President Obama, You would be wise to Clean House....TONIGHT!

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231. Everywhere in the world where boycotting elections

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has been tried as a strategy, it's led (predictably) to no gains whatsoever and to even greater marginalization.

The next president will appoint quite a few judges to the federal courts, including probably at least one Supreme Court appointment. A Republican president will of course appoint strongly ideological judges. Invade Iran? Why not. Maybe we should withdraw from the START treaty with Russia, investigate Muslim communities and mosques for terrorist links, or put an end to the "job killing" enforcement activities of the Environmental Protection Agency.

These are of course only possibilities of the kinds of crazy, stupid, harmful things a Republican government might do.

I live in a state (Tennessee) under complete Republican control of both the governorship and strong majorities in both legislative houses. Let's see, we have a constitutional amendment "defining marriage as between one man and one woman", it's against the law for a public school teacher to use the word "homosexual" or to even discuss the subject, Tennesseans can bring their loaded firearms into bars and employers may not prohibit workers from bringing their guns onto the business' property, state colleges and universities that receive any student aid may not require open, non-discriminatory membership policies in student organizations, local governments may not impose diversity requirements for businesses wishing to do work for the government, etc., etc.

These are only some of the asinine laws that the Republicans have passed in Tennessee since they gained complete control of the government.

I really don't agree with your idea of boycotting elections. I don't think you fully appreciate just how much harm Republicans would do given the opportunity. But if you are really serious, why not take the next logical step and just vote Republican? You know, if it's a good thing to have a crazy Republican as the leader of the country, why not help make it happen?