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In reply to the discussion: The used car salesman strikes again [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)I am out tabling every other day or so on a non-partisan issue.
And Locally, people are fed up.
More and more people are saying "I no longer vote."
At first I thought maybe I was just out on a day when so many other disgruntled folks were out and about.
But then, getting bored, I started asking people why they won't vote any more.
And I keep hearing: 'Well, once I was told that voting for the Lesser Evil is required,' I couldn't deal with it any more. Lesser Evil is still evil."
Obama got the nation's Highest Office back in 2008 because his handlers had him chirping out the progressive speaking points of Dennis Kucincih. That had appeal for a lot of people.
Hells, Bells, my RW tea bagging neighbor voted for Obama. (A stat every Democratic voter, and especially Dem Leadership should understand - American public is right now 32 to 34% for the "D" party, 22 to 26% for the "R" Party and the rest of us are simply looking for someone, anyone who will quit the insane wars, quit the insane War Against Some Drugs, return the jobs to the USA, etc.. That last group now has more people than either "Major" Party!)
But then by mid-December 2008, before his even being inaugurated, it was announced his choice for Treasury was RICO-candidate Tim Geithner, and it became immediately obvious that his puppet strings extended to the Big Financial People. And Big Military etc.