40.6 billion reasons to vote against incumbents?
$40.6 billion in profit in one yearSo, ExxonMobil profited $40.6 billion dollars this year. That's plenty of money to keep buying Congress, as oil companies have been doing for decades. But I don't care about $40.6 billion.
Despite the fact that the military-industrial complex that runs our government via cheap oil has created two wars in the Middle East, 9/11, massive pollution, etc., etc., not one mainstream politician is talking real change - accepting the real world costs of oil dependency, especially foreign oil dependency - let alone the environmental costs.
OUR government has failed us. Democrats have run Congress and the White House. Republicans have run Congress and the White House. Yet, little has ever changed. Time to vote against all incumbents?
Labels: Foreign Oil Dependency
posted by Dahcredyns at
8:55 AM
5 Comments:
Voting against incumbents is an interesting idea, but I don't think it will resonate with voters. Besides, voters don't really think about Congress much, it's all about the President.
Let's get a Democrat in the White House and a few more seats in Congress, and I think you'll start seeing real change.
The major political parties are both clubs that shun truly new ideas. The federal government is also too large to efficiently manage. We need to take a fresher look at more efficient distribution of power. Both in terms of geography and organizations. THAT is the future of democracy. Just think how foreign our representative government would look to serfs in the middle ages. We need to envision as much difference in government forward from where we are. People don't even recognize that there's a box to think outside of.
I say diffusing federal control to regional, state, or even city-state level is the way to go. It will be interesting to see if a model like the EU would fit on this side of the pond. Its the control of the Republicans AND the Democrats at the federal level that is ridiculous. In a land of almost 300 million people, a choice between two?!
kp-
reading your post made me instantly think of california's tailpipe waiver.
i wonder what chance there is that the people will demand more power when "it's all about the President" for most voters? that makes your serf analogy interesting because it seems we still do live in a kingdom.
IT TAKES TENURE IN OFFICE for a politician to become rich, powerful, and corrupt. They are re-elected because they have accumulated enough public and private money to continually buy their re-election. Entrenched politicians continue their indiscretions and crimes using your money!
WHEN WILL IT END? How can we stop it? What can we do about it? Are we to be forever HELPLESS before the power of the rich politicians? NO! Is there ANYTHING voters can do? YES!
VOTE AGAINST ALL INCUMBENTS! Throw the rascals OUT!
IT’S SO EASY! IT’S SO SIMPLE! If candidates for office have the word “Incumbent” by their name, or “re-elect” on their campaign literature, or the name of the political office they now hold noted anywhere ......DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM! Vote for ANY OTHER candidate on the ballot, or WRITE-IN your name or the name of a friend. Always, always, always Vote Against All Incumbents! Never, never, never re-elect ANYONE to public office!
THINK OF IT! It’s THE ULTIMATE TERM LIMITS! It makes EVERY political office a ONE-TERM office. No more political hacks only concerned with getting re-elected. Voters simply Vote Against All Incumbents and “SHAZAM” they have established term-limits
TERM-LIMITS MEANS TERM-LIMITS! It doesn’t matter how charismatic, how many promises were kept, how good a job they have done, or how much government money they have brought into the elective district. IT DOESN’T MATTER! No argument should ever persuade the voters to re-elect any Incumbent. Period!
CAREER POLITICIANS ARE COMPLETELY ELIMINATED. No one can become too corrupted by the power of government when they are in office for only one term. Every newly elected public official will be motivated to keep the promises they made that secured their election. They will come into office with a focus on doing their job, not on their re-election. One-term offices will keep more control of the political process than any other method yet devised.
A ONE-TERM POLITICAL SYSTEM will revolutionize our entire governmental structure. Changes for the better will come about on the Federal, State and Local levels.
IT’S A FACT OF POLITICAL LIFE! The first thing newly elected politicians do is start raising funds and start planning for their RE-ELECTION! That’s when political favors are dispensed, special privileges are granted, and all eyes become focused on the NEXT election.
OUR CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM was designed to put controls on government, not on the people. It was designed to be a government OF THE PEOPLE, not of dictators, despots, or professional politicians.
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT! The corruption in our elected officials has to be obvious to anyone who can read the paper, watch the nightly news, or listen to the radio. We have all seen how futile and ineffective the efforts to bring about reform have been. We all wonder what we could possibly do that would make a difference. Now the answer is staring us straight in the face. We CAN do something! We can take ACTION! We can do it NOW!
AT THE VERY NEXT ELECTION, voters will vote ALL Incumbent Career Politicians out of office. We’ll start fresh. The newly elected citizens will take up the business of governing, legislating, policymaking and reform, not the business of getting re-elected. And, WE THE CITIZENS did it all with our one little, all-powerful VOTE AGAINST ALL INCUMBENTS!
That's how I vote in every election. It helps keep me motivated to vote, otherwise I'd probably become as apathetic as most Americans.
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