Comments on: False Choices, Why American Elections are a Joke

By: Tenavision

Tenavision — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:17:08 +0000

IF VOTING WAS EFFECTIVE, IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL!

By: Brent Maupin, Sedona

Brent Maupin, Sedona — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:56:18 +0000

Thank you Joni! This is exactly what I found when I ran for U.S. Congress as an Independent. It is important to add that, for example, 30% of all voters in Arizona are registered Independents. However, less than 3% voted for an Idependent candidate when given the opportunity. Why? Because the voters are not truly ready for change. Independent voters may have pulled themselves away from the party but few are ready to pull away from the system. However, it is a step in the right direction.

By: Cole Greenberg

Cole Greenberg — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:55:09 +0000

On target! It may be time to “do something else,” but what? Maybe we should meet and look for something to agree on . . . like being honest with one-another and demanding honesty from anyone who wants to speak to us. I really don’t know what to do, but I’m sure that I must “save myself first” (like the oxygen mask instructions on airliners) and then look for and find people with whom I would be willing to be back-to-back in a saloon fight. What’s happening more resembles a saloon-fight than anything our founding fathers encountered. Thank you, Joni!

By: Dogmeat

Dogmeat — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:21:35 +0000

I want to take this opportunity to thank the Tea Party for electing Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown since he voted for the Financial Reform Bill and help the President of the United States with another legislative victory, thank you Tea Party. Have you heard of “Unintended Consequences” or “Blowback”? Was he working for the Tea Party, himself or our Country, hmmm only you can answer this one?

The problem is this. Tea Party candidates will win a number of these congressional races because local districts are often safely partisan in nature. They can make their wild, unfounded claims, crazy accusations, etc., and win. That means not only are we likely to see an increase in Republican seats in both houses, we’re likely to see more antics, more insanity, more stupidity. At the same time they’re going to do everything they can to derail Obama’s policies which will likely mean high unemployment, a moribund economy, and more compromises on policy positions that make no one happy.

That could literally mean that if the Republicans put up a legitimate candidate in 2012, they could win. Such a result is bad enough, but the likely response for the Democrats is to move further to the “middle” to placate voters. As we’ve seen over the last decade, the “middle” in American politics is basically on the verge of being an 80s Republican. Increasingly that means we’ll have a political landscape of a conservative party and ratfuck insane parties. The former, given it’s track record, slowly moving to the right, the latter, given it’s track record, loudly screaming “socialism, communism, fascism!!!”

If we continue on this course, privatization will be socialism.

By: J. Rick Normand, Sedona

J. Rick Normand, Sedona — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:45:09 +0000

Joni,

I don’t know who you are, but I’m impressed with your writing style and the thoroughness of your research. Your article is well-conceived and well-articulated. Unfortunately, your point is spot-on. I hope you’ll keep writing for knowledge-deprived Sedona readers. We need more superb writers here who can truly see through the fog.

J. Rick Normand