Posted on 10/11/2013 10:41:08 AM PDT by Kazan
That’s worse...
Organizations are an easy way to control the sheeple.
This is due to simple arithmetic:
instead of having to control every member of an organization directly,
one only has to control a few leaders at the top of the organization - in order to control the voice of the whole organization. This effectively silences every rank-and-file members, who simple become the organization’s sheeple. Their only recourse is to quit the organization, but typically they are presented with alterior benefits to staying in.
Political parties, being organizations, enable easy wholesale control of “the masses”.
If a populace won’t stand for 1-party control, one only has to create a multi-party system in order to provide the illusion of “political competition”.
Ergo, most of the sheeple can be deluded into thinking they are being “mostly” “represented” by one of the political “teams”.
The “teams” simply must always have differing views on every political issue. Then the sheeple see “multiple sides” to every issue, and find that they “win some, they lose some”. In this way, most never “feel” completely unrepresented.
Adding parties or eliminating them altogether would be a start towards somewhat watering down the effectiveness of the financial oligarchy’s political control - unless or until they came up with alternate control strategies.
Exactly.
I wonder about this poll. Of course there are a lot of democrat supporters in the republican party, which, I guess, is the problem.
If Cruz was on the ballot as a Republican in YOUR area, would you vote for him?
You have answered my question!
Elections are not about your ego or your pride. This is about the future of our country and I will not listen to Third Party fools who base their decisions on EMOTION!
Right. A second party would suffice.
Well blame away, ignore the bigger problems and see how much gets resolved.
Kansas58 wrote: “Third Party ideas are supported by those who do not understand math.”
Well, Kansas58, you have a right to be wrong on this one. That is a common thought tossed out by folks who believe that the pubbies still represent Constitutional Principles, and as a consequence, they stand in opposition to the dhimmicraps.
Nothing could be further from the truth. A cursory review of the past few years leads one to the inescapable conclusion that the pubbies and the dhimmicraps have much more in common than at odds.
We understand math. And, now matter how you tally it, the current political landscape looks like this: D + R = STATUS QUO. And, STATUS QUO = D - R. The only for that to work out is if R = 0.
A third party, founded on conservative principles, and faithful to those principles, will take some votes from the GOPe, that’s true. However, if something doesn’t change, this nation will slide further down that slippery slope to socialism, regardless of which of the current parties is in ‘power’.
It is time for the people of this nation to reclaim their voice, to stand up to the dhimmicraps AND the pubbies, to let them all know that the power of this nation springs from its people.
A new Third Party, TEA Party if you will, is a grand place to start.
We don’t need no stinking third party.
The secret to restoring the integrity of the federal government is the following. Regardless of the global popularity of Downton Abbey, “DC Follies” is actually the most popular soap opera in the world. And the trick to restoring the constitutional republic is to find another soap opera that can hold people’s attention to their TVs between highly profitable commercials as well as DC Follies can.
There are “3rd Parties” out there now. How many more do they want?
http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm
Constitution
Green
Libertarian
and then some lesser ones;
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/G12/parties.phtml
Elections are about principle.
/johnny
Those who push for a Third Party have NEVER won an election in their lives.
They have NEVER had a political or legislative victory.
They are acting out of emotion.
It is a stupid idea.
The Republican Party is supported by those who do not understand conservatism and principles.
No, elections are about DEFEATING THE ENEMY!
The ENEMY in the primary will be any RINO who we can beat.
The ENEMY in the General election will be the Democrat.
Elections are not about your ego.
Suck it up and defeat the enemy, you will NEVER have a perfect candidate.
“Put not your faith in Princes”
We have them. They failed in the past, fail now, and fail in the future.
> Third Party ideas are supported by those who do not understand math.
Speaking as someone who has a significant level of mathematical expertise, you’re full of it. The only person in either party who has proposed a serious balanced budget is Ron Paul, who is no longer in office.
The math-aware also know that the Federal Reserve is presently engaged in destroying the US dollar a la Weimar. Outside of a handful of marginal Republicans and a couple of Dems, nobody outside of third parties is even talking about this.
The not-mathematically-challenged know that there will be massive defaults because more debt has been issued than there is actual income to pay off that debt (never mind paying for things like survival as well).
We, the mathematically literate, understand all about exponential growth curves and diminishing returns, and as a result understand that few in either party have any sort of serious grip on the mathematical reality of US finances at all.
Say what you will about a 3rd party approach, the approach of blindly voting “R” has gotten us exactly ... nowhere. The government expands unimpeded, in terms of size, scope, power, and unaccountability. The Republican Party has not even proven itself worthy of being called a “speed-bump”. You cite logic and “mathematics”, but reality and history show something quite different.
Until there is a valid, unified, opposition party this country will continue to be transformed, as it has for 50+ years.
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