Ted Rall for February 01, 2013
Transcript:
Man 1: Us Republicans have to change. Our mean old white guy base is dying off. They're getting replaced by minorities and youngsters who hate immigrant bashing, gay hating, or starving the government. Man 2: Are you suggesting that, in order to win, we sell out our cherished principles? Man 1: It worked for the Democrats. Man 2: Point taken.
In the United States, I hate electoral democracy. The two-party system is a joke. The Republicans are evil right-wing idiots trying to drag us back into the 18th century. The Democrats are slightly less evil slightly less right-wing somewhat smarter cynics who know better but refuse to act like it or do anything about making the country a better place.
The third parties are pretty useless. Many of them have ideas that I find appealing, especially the Greens and to a lesser extent the Libertarians, but their only purpose is to serve to legitimize an illegitimate two-party system. No third party is allowed to participate in the system. They’re not allowed to participate in the debates, they are blocked by ballot access rules from appearing on the ballots in most places, corporate media refuses to cover them or invite them on to discuss the issues, and so they are nothing more than useless idiots brought on to serve as window dressing for a fake democratic system.
So what do I like? I like thinking for myself, I like people who do the same, I like people who don’t think that voting has anything to do with politics. Politics is what you do and talk about with your friends and your neighbors and your coworkers or your fellow unemployed people and it’s about picking up a sign and protesting the bastards who are making everything worse for most of us and occasionally it’s about picking up a rock and throwing it at a limousine.