Elections are great, if they are fair, but they aren’t. To start with we are burdened with political parties that are extra-constitutional. Note, I didn’t say unconstitutional. However, over time, they have used the two party system to exclude the possibility of any serious third party.
Then, in many States, we are also burdened with open primaries, which are now openly manipulated by both parties to produce less effective candidates.
As an example, John Murtha faced a serious challenge to his seat from a Republican, so he asked two Democrats to change their party affiliation and run against that Republican in the open primary. Then Murtha, unchallenged in the Democrat primary, asked Democrats to vote for one of the two faux-Republicans.
Then the one faux-Republican who won the Republican primary stopped campaigning against Murtha, guaranteeing him reelection.
This effectively disenfranchised all the Republican voters in his district, even though the Republican candidate was ahead of Murtha at the beginning, and would have won in a fair race.
And there are many more dirty tricks, done by both parties to ensure that incumbents are reelected, that money decides the outcome of races, and that those who support federal power are chosen at the expense of those want a return to constitutional principles.
And, with the 17th Amendment, the States are as powerless as are the people.
You and OWShark bring up some good stuff, I have to tell you...
In the case of the Murtha re-election (after all his BS we had to put up with), apparently nothing the democrat party did was a violation of the law...Everyone knows and understands what they did, and why...
The first thing is thst if Murtha was such an anchor to the democrats, if they were going to go through all this trouble to cancel out the Republican party candidate for that seat, why did they not just tell Murtha to step aside??? And put one of their goobs in the spot to replace him???
What amazes me about all of that is that the Republican party allowed those two democrat turned Republicans to actually get into this mix...
Seems to me if the goose is good for the gander, the Republican leadership should learn from this...
If our methods of selecting individuals to represent us has gotten this childish, maybe tossing the whole lot would be a good place to start...
I’ll tell you guys a little secret...We’ll all still get up in the morning, eat breakfast, go to work, laugh at the outcome of this...And at the end of the day, the sun will still go down in the west...And in the morning it comes back up in the east...
I believe our government for the most part is embarrasing us...It certainly is building itself up to be tyrranical, but it is extremely embarrasing to know that we have elected a bunch of children to run this show...And they are proving their worth everyday...
Time to spank the entire lot and send the home...