Reply #8: What is the Karma party?

[Senior citizen]

You're a treasure, vickiss.

All we did was replace the divine right of kings with federal immunity. The military can't sue the government, no matter what is done to them, and even when people can sue, as with the downwinders, they are unlikely to live long enough to benefit.

Well, DU wins again. I posted in help and support, but didn't really expect any. Thank you, vickiss. Gore didn't lose, and neither, I believe, did Kerry. It isn't the number of votes, it is whether or not they are counted accurately. And whether the electoral college works to further or to frustrate the will of the electorate. And whether SCOTUS upholds or destroys the Constitution.

I'm voting my conscience too next time. I don't care if the puke candidate is Beelzebub himself, and the Democrats have Jesus of Nazareth returned to earth as their nominee. Everything isn't black and white. It can't be a choice between a good man and an evil man, or a good party and an evil party. The real choice is between corporate politics as usual, or government of, by and for the people.

The total absurdity of our current system in encapsulated in the situation where our elected representatives legally cannot represent us. Most of them do not have the security clearances and do not sit on the right committees to be informed of what is going on, and those who are on the committees and have the clearances, are forbidden to tell their colleagues what they know, no less their constituents. So we can't have an informed electorate because our representatives aren't allowed to tell us what's going on. So we elect people, they go to Washington, and either they're as much in the dark as we are, or they get classified information and they can't tell anyone about it. We might as well elect kittens and puppies to represent us, because they wouldn't know what's going on either, and couldn't tell us if they did. And they're a whole lot cuddlier than what we've got now.