Reply #76: The path the Democratic Party has chosen

[Goldstein1984]

is to move so far Right that democratically principled citizens have no choice but to abandon the party. This way, the party, on average, becomes indistinguishable from Republicans.

I'm serious; I'm not falling for the less-malignant-of-two-tumors voting model. Both parties are taking us in the same dystopian direction. Why postpone it by voting Republican Lite? Let's just vote Republican, drive the country into the ground sooner, rather than the Democratic preference for later, and see what comes out on the other side.

This spending cut nonsense, on top of the Chief of Staff arrogance I recognize so well from eight years of Bush/Cheney, on top of a continuation of Bush/Cheney's "security" and "war on terror" strategies have me laughing every time I hear that stupid meme: "Vote Democrat. Don't forget how bad things were under Bush!" Frankly, I don't see the big difference.

And now Obama is attempting to save face by saying he'd rather be a good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. Well I have news for him: He is, so far, a mediocre one-term president.

I'm doing some business travel for a few days, and I'm sitting in my hotel room with MSNBC going in the background. The more I hear, the angrier I'm getting.

But a solution occurs to me: Coin-toss voting. Every American ignores party, ignores adds, and ignores political philosophy; we just walk into the voting booth and toss a coin--Heads = Democrat and Tails = Republican. With voting results completely randomized, only a fool would make a campaign contribution to a politician, they'd have to call it what it really is--graft. And the beauty is, like a chimpanzee typing until "War and Peace" eventually emerges merely by chance, we might, eventually, get the government we need by a random process, since the directed process hasn't been working so well for us.

Sorry. Just had my fill today.