Toon: One of the following leads to change....

[n2doc]

If only there were such candidates to vote for...

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I would take it one step further

by suggesting that it takes more than merely showing up on election day - not that voting is frivolous, mind you, but it takes continual pressure on everyone from the president to local officials to keep things moving in the right direction or from reverting to an effed-up condition.

[HughBeaumont]

2. Difference is, "batshit insane" is the new "Republican" and "Republican" is the new "Democrat".

What this assumes is that "Democrat" should be "Progressive". SHOULD be. And should be promoted as such.

Yet, people will VOTE for "batshit insane" and "Republican", sadly. People LIKE "Batshit Insane" and "Republican"; they've been trained quite well for years in that regard to vote for whoever plays their fear-based thinking like a cheap NES.

"Progressive" is painted as "Communist Leftist Pinko Infiltrator (insert racial slur)-loving Socialist NutJob"; which is why the Democratic Party pretty much promotes "sensible" (read - "milquetoast Third Way") candidates, not ones who'll stand up to corporate interests, who'll stand with the unions, who won't tell the poor "it's their fault".

It's the reason you have the Congress and Senate you have - too many Ben Nelsons and not enough Sherrod Browns. Too many John Boehners and not enough Marcy Kapturs.

[lunatica]

3. Voting for who? Wall Street's favorite candidate?

It's a stupid cartoon and it misses the message altogether.

[deutsey]

6. +1

[HughBeaumont]

7. +2.

This problem goes far beyond voting. The entire system is compromised and corrupted from head to toe. Money and politics need to be divorced. It's because of this that our citizenry is pretty much choosing who has the less-strangling social agenda. Economically, there IS no option.

[Scuba]

4. We need to use the grass-roots of the Democratic Party the get the...

...right candidates, then vote for them.

[occupyeverywhere]

5. I'm gonna go with B