Americans are working 2+ jobs and selling their blood plasma to make ends meet -- while Republicans and Democrats joust about non-issues like gender pronouns. Time for a change, America!
There is no right answer - Here in Nevada the most meaningful vote I’m providing is the one for open primaries. Glad you found worthwhile 3rd parties in your contests because I didn’t.
Biden and Co. keep pushing the proxy war in Ukraine because they are unwilling to accept anything but the continuation of the unipolar world order under US hegemony, what they euphemistically call the "rules based international order." This is what the proxy war is all about; Ukraine happens to be the territory where the fighting is taking place, but actually this war is not about Ukraine per se. It is imperative that everyone read Putin's speech (in its entirety) that he delivered at the recent Valdai conference (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69695 ). As Scott Ritter has explained so clearly, in that speech Putin made clear that the Ukraine war is about the future architecture of global power (https://consortiumnews.com/2022/11/03/scott-ritter-a-dangerous-bloody-dirty-game/?fbclid=IwAR17a36BhMtxe5XYOeyz2U9-ZEHc6rZWOvCuNJjvv922PLOpPq3-pOOedZs&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email ). Will the world continue as a unipolar world, or are we in the process of transitioning to a multipolar world order? Will the world continue to be governed by a so-called "rules based international order" or will it be based on international law that has been codified? What makes the stakes so high in this proxy war is that both sides believe the battle is existential, that losing is not an option. The very fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
The WORST government money can buy is waiting in the wings… :
TOTAL COST OF 2022 STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTIONS PROJECTED TO EXCEED $16.7 BILLION by OpenSecrets Staff November 3, 2022
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 – The total cost of 2022 state and federal midterm elections is projected to exceed $16.7 billion, according to a new OpenSecrets analysis.
“NO OTHER MIDTERM ELECTION HAS SEEN AS MUCH MONEY AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS AS THE 2022 ELECTIONS,” SAID SHEILA KRUMHOLZ, OPENSECRETS’ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. “WE’RE SEEING RECORD-BREAKING TOTALS SPENT ON ELECTIONS UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT.”
The primary function of Democrats is exactly the same as the primary function of Republicans: To create, foster, maintain, and sustain the illusion/delusion that America has an actual, real two-Party system of politics that really, actually gives the American Voter an actual, real Choice about who is running this government and how this nation is to be governed.
When is the last time that the American Voter had a Choice about ANYTHING their government has done, is doing, and/or will do?
To take the most obvious, ugliest, and costliest example: Over the last twenty-one years since 9/11, how much have the American Voters had to say about the course and conduct of America’s “Forever War,” even as it lurches us all today toward World War III?
How much have the American Voters had to say about twenty-one years of Deficit Spending that drove the national, sovereign Debt from $5.8 Trillion and 55% of GDP in 2001 to $31.2 Trillion and 121.5% of GDP today?
How much have the American Voters had to say about all the various and sundry “Too Big Too Fail” rescues and bailouts, tax and regulatory breaks, subsidies, gifts, grifts, and open graft, collusion, and corruption that characterizes America’s long established operating paradigm: Crony Capitalism?
How much did the American Voter have to say about their government’s complete and totally failed handling of The COVID-19 Event, and then its reaction and response to the economic suffering and social chaos that its own inept handling had unleashed?
The best thing any Voter who is completely and totally fed up with all this Bullshit can do on November 8 is to write in “None Of These Candidates,” and begin working toward making “None Of These Candidates” a mandatory choice on every ballot of every federal election in 2024.
And the last time “morning again in America” was in the news was when GHW Bush and Bozo were running for re-election in 1984. Remember? That was exactly when Saddam was doing our bidding against Iran, Osama and Da Boyz were doing our bidding against the Russkies in a place called Afghanistan, and Ollie North was establishing himself as an arms and cocaine merchant in Central America.
Given where all those things led, maybe it’s a Good thing that it’s not morning again in America again. At least for the moment.
Americans are working 2+ jobs and selling their blood plasma to make ends meet -- while Republicans and Democrats joust about non-issues like gender pronouns. Time for a change, America!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/05/multiple-jobs-census-data-inflation-us
There is no right answer - Here in Nevada the most meaningful vote I’m providing is the one for open primaries. Glad you found worthwhile 3rd parties in your contests because I didn’t.
Biden and Co. keep pushing the proxy war in Ukraine because they are unwilling to accept anything but the continuation of the unipolar world order under US hegemony, what they euphemistically call the "rules based international order." This is what the proxy war is all about; Ukraine happens to be the territory where the fighting is taking place, but actually this war is not about Ukraine per se. It is imperative that everyone read Putin's speech (in its entirety) that he delivered at the recent Valdai conference (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69695 ). As Scott Ritter has explained so clearly, in that speech Putin made clear that the Ukraine war is about the future architecture of global power (https://consortiumnews.com/2022/11/03/scott-ritter-a-dangerous-bloody-dirty-game/?fbclid=IwAR17a36BhMtxe5XYOeyz2U9-ZEHc6rZWOvCuNJjvv922PLOpPq3-pOOedZs&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email ). Will the world continue as a unipolar world, or are we in the process of transitioning to a multipolar world order? Will the world continue to be governed by a so-called "rules based international order" or will it be based on international law that has been codified? What makes the stakes so high in this proxy war is that both sides believe the battle is existential, that losing is not an option. The very fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
American "Democracy" is no good example for the rest of the World to follow.
... a third of the country votes one way, another third the other, the final third not-at-all... this is now America
... when there's no clear-cut-leader in-sight... why should we be expecting anything-else
Well said.
The WORST government money can buy is waiting in the wings… :
TOTAL COST OF 2022 STATE AND FEDERAL ELECTIONS PROJECTED TO EXCEED $16.7 BILLION by OpenSecrets Staff November 3, 2022
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 – The total cost of 2022 state and federal midterm elections is projected to exceed $16.7 billion, according to a new OpenSecrets analysis.
“NO OTHER MIDTERM ELECTION HAS SEEN AS MUCH MONEY AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS AS THE 2022 ELECTIONS,” SAID SHEILA KRUMHOLZ, OPENSECRETS’ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. “WE’RE SEEING RECORD-BREAKING TOTALS SPENT ON ELECTIONS UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT.”
Continued at https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/11/press-release-total-cost-of-2022-state-and-federal-elections-projected-exceed-16-7-billion [EMPHASIS added.]
The primary function of Democrats is exactly the same as the primary function of Republicans: To create, foster, maintain, and sustain the illusion/delusion that America has an actual, real two-Party system of politics that really, actually gives the American Voter an actual, real Choice about who is running this government and how this nation is to be governed.
When is the last time that the American Voter had a Choice about ANYTHING their government has done, is doing, and/or will do?
To take the most obvious, ugliest, and costliest example: Over the last twenty-one years since 9/11, how much have the American Voters had to say about the course and conduct of America’s “Forever War,” even as it lurches us all today toward World War III?
How much have the American Voters had to say about twenty-one years of Deficit Spending that drove the national, sovereign Debt from $5.8 Trillion and 55% of GDP in 2001 to $31.2 Trillion and 121.5% of GDP today?
How much have the American Voters had to say about all the various and sundry “Too Big Too Fail” rescues and bailouts, tax and regulatory breaks, subsidies, gifts, grifts, and open graft, collusion, and corruption that characterizes America’s long established operating paradigm: Crony Capitalism?
How much did the American Voter have to say about their government’s complete and totally failed handling of The COVID-19 Event, and then its reaction and response to the economic suffering and social chaos that its own inept handling had unleashed?
The best thing any Voter who is completely and totally fed up with all this Bullshit can do on November 8 is to write in “None Of These Candidates,” and begin working toward making “None Of These Candidates” a mandatory choice on every ballot of every federal election in 2024.
And the last time “morning again in America” was in the news was when GHW Bush and Bozo were running for re-election in 1984. Remember? That was exactly when Saddam was doing our bidding against Iran, Osama and Da Boyz were doing our bidding against the Russkies in a place called Afghanistan, and Ollie North was establishing himself as an arms and cocaine merchant in Central America.
Given where all those things led, maybe it’s a Good thing that it’s not morning again in America again. At least for the moment.