Reply #7: Sure, there's always an alternative

[MadHound]

Vote for people who will actually do what you want, follow the mandate of the people rather than squandering it for bullshit resolutions and raising their own pay.

Sorry, but I've had it with much of the Democratic party, after thirty seven years of hard work and loyalty I get a trashed economy and an illegal war in return. Frankly the blame lies at the feet of both parties, and both parties need to get the boot.

I'm going to a much more issue oriented, conscience oriented involvement in politics. Party politics is simply not going to be our salvation since both parties have become rotten from the inside out, corrupted by corporate cash. Hell, can you honestly tell me that Hillary is going to do anything meaningful when she is the top recipient of health industry money? And Biden, the man who's in the finance industry's back pocket? The list of infamy goes on and on, and frankly the only one who isn't tainted is Kucinich who takes no corporate cash.

The same goes in Congress, they are, for the most part, nothing but corporate whores, bought and paid for, and what you and I and the rest of the country want comes in a distant second, or even third, to what corporations want.

A veto proof majority, HAH! Like that's going to do any damn good. Both parties are invested in this war, invested in the status quo, and despite the country going to hell around us, they aren't going to do anything that will endanger their precious corporate masters. Shit, just the other day a great, grand new gas mileage standard was announced with great fanfare---35 fucking mpg by the year 2020:eyes: Oh yeah, that's progress baby.

We need real change in this country, and as has been demonstrated for the past twenty years, neither the Dems nor the 'Pugs can provide this change. So frankly, it is time to look outside this box, thing outside this box, and vote for real, effective change in this party. Back in the 1850's Whigs scoffed at the notion of rebellion within their ranks. One election cycle later they were on the dustbin of history and the first third party candidate, Lincoln, was in office as a Republican. We can make this sort of change again if we unite to do so, if we simply don't keeping lapping up the scraps that are thrown to us and calling it good.