From A Republican, And A Democrat... The System Is Broken... In Their Own Words...

[colsohlibgal]

34. Sad Reality

At least as sad is all the people on both sides of the aisle that cannot or will not figure this out Right now it's game, set, and closing in on match. Obama is better than a republican but only around the edges. Mostly he's been just right of center - not good enough to change much at all. We need more parties, more choices, we need IRV, we need foolproof verifiable voting. We need a real MSM that actually asks hard questions rather than lobbing softballs.

We really started speeding up going downhill with the 2000 presidential election debacle/coup. The Supreme Court basically installed Bush. This was enabled by the unbelievable fact that in the deciding state the governor was Dubya's brother and the head election official was Dubya's campaign manager for the state. The most incredible thing of the whole coup was that more people weren't outraged. Beyond the recount being stopped there were all the mostly black people kicked off the coting rolls because they happened to have a name similar to a felon. With those votes, 80-90% of them democratic, Gore would have won the state hands down.

So many of us are so discouraged. Talking to a lady I play competitive doubles tennis with she agrees totally with me - if we were younger we'd think hard about moving to a country that isn't an oligarchy. People like me might leave this earth before it really gets bad, but I worry about my children and grandchildren.