What happens when you lose faith with the voters..?

[kentuck]

What do you do?

The country did not vote for John Boehner to lead them. They did not vote for Mitch McConnell to lead them. They voted for Barack Obama to lead them as President of this country.

Yet, these two Republican leaders block everything to keep this President's agenda from being adopted. A few right-wing Republicans in their respective states put them in office and they pretend to have the power to call the shots for all of us.

Surely the voters see this? Surely they will pay a political price? Surely they will be thrown out on their butts in the next election? In a rational and sensible world, they would be gone. The voters would toss them out of the game.

But, we live in a new divided political world. Voters do not vote as they should. They vote with their Parties and the divisive leaders. They cannot be trusted to do what is right. It is difficult to keep the faith in this system.

[Tesha]

1. I lost faith with the voters in 1980 when they elected an idiot actor as our President.

Then, when his policies led to huge deficits,
no one learned; they're *STILL* voting for
these proven-wrong policies.

December 13th 2000 also cost me tremendous
faith in the voters when they mostly-silently accepted
that the Supreme Court had decided that the votes
of the voters didn't matter and the Felonious Five
could choose the next President.

And then, of course, in 2004, the moronic voters
in this country re-elected (or close enough that it
didn't matter) their moronic leader.

In all these years, I've seen very little to cause me
to *HAVE* (let alone lose!) any faith in voters being
more than fools and easily-manipulated dupes of
the powerful.

Tesha

[quaker bill]

3. I am good with your take on things N/T

[GoCubsGo]

8. Me, too, but I got some of it back during the Clinton impeachment.

Most people understood what a mountain of bullshit that was. Granted it was a big enough thing that people paid attention to it, for a change. That faith, what little of it I had left by 2004, went out the window after the election. "Easily-manipulated dupes", indeed. I see their rants in the local paper every morning. Just today, one of the local bitter, old cranks had a LTE on how the republicons have better candidates than the Democrats. And, a they gave a fellow lunatic a whole fucking column to expound on the reasons we should all vote for Herman Cain. Bunch of deluded idiots, and no sane person will be allowed to counter their shit. And, everyone here is just fine with that.

[NNN0LHI]

9. Yep, it was all down hill after that for me then too

[era veteran]

2. I will never understand my State voting Mitchie

The Senator from Humana.
To think he was the young protégé of our liberal Republican John Sherman Cooper.
He is certainly not of us now.

[TheKentuckian]

4. Because we have a lot of Reich Wingers and blindly religious that show up

and put him over the top. The percentage against him is mostly fervently so and it is close.

I think if we had better candidates he'd probably already be gone but you cannot discount that his position brings home a lot of pork. Still, last go around that piece of shit corporatist, Lundsford made him sweat, if we had went with Conway instead, he'd be chilling in da Ville.

[era veteran]

7. The DNC did not help against Mitchie last time.

Even with Lunsford we may have won.
I don't think Mitchie will come back, He and his beard have a good life in DC.

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[BadgerKid]

6. Different perspective.

I hate it when computer manufacturers and software manufacturers try to pigeonhole the buyer into selecting from among home vs. media user vs. business vs. power user, etc. Quit telling me what YOU want me to want. I want specifications and hate overpaying out of ignorance. Just give me the pieces and i can build to suit my own needs.

IMO, voters have for a long time tolerated simply going along with the package deal, partly by TPTB's design and partly out of their own apathy. The demonstrations I think are a sign of the pendulum swinging back to where voters place finer attention on the ingredients going into government. There will be renewed desire to "build to suit" (read: starting with local and state elections) but I would expect a good deal of political resistance from the established rule.

[Egalitariat]

10. Is the Executive branch superior to the Legislative branch in your eyes?

I've always thought of them, along with the Judicial branch, as being fairly equal.