Comments | embers_log: politics

embers_log

politics

Jan 27, 2013 12:39

To me politics comes down to various issues, and although I hear pundits/candidates complain about 'single issue voters', I find that I have many many issues that are vitally important to me. I would love to do a poll... but I don't think I'm read by enough people to poll...

My hot button issues are:
1. Voter Suppression
2. Women's Reproductive ( Read more... )

politics

Comments 7

ancientgirl January 27 2013, 19:16:15 UTC

Dammit! I had written this long answer to your post, and my stupid laptop lost it! Grrr.

Well, I'll give you the cliff notes and say, I totally agree with you that everything you listed is important!

embers_log January 27 2013, 20:02:38 UTC

oh I hate when I lose a post!

ancientgirl January 28 2013, 00:42:49 UTC

This laptop is on it's last leg.

I do hope that some progress is made these next 4 years, but sadly seeing as Harry Reid can't seem to grow a spine, I see many more filibusters ahead.

embers_log January 28 2013, 04:46:15 UTC

yeah, I was hugely disappointed in the stupid cowardice of Harry Reid... I even went so far as to send him some nasty twitters (which only some staff member of his will ever see).

What can you do?

Thread 5

lovejames January 28 2013, 13:25:42 UTC

It's always difficult to know just what to do. i guess we vote for the politician/party that suits us most, on their results etc. i've never liked a two party system, especially as it's difficult to see much difference between the two ( ... )

embers_log January 28 2013, 20:26:25 UTC

I'm not sure I necessarily care about the above issues in that order... the problem w/me is that I care about a lot of things deeply, so it is hard to pick an order!

I have voted third party a lot too... I've been a member of the Green Party, and in fact I was part of the creation of a third party called 'The Natural Law Party': it was started at the time GMO foods were first being foisted onto the American people. The drug companies (mostly Monstanto) had managed to put their own people into the Food & Drug Admin so that all the GMO foods they created got immediate approval from the FDA (with little or no testing). We felt that we could never lobby against a giant drug company, or against the FDA (a part of the government)... so we created a 3rd political party. And we did influence some Democratic and all Green Party candidates to listen to us. We didn't fix anything, but we managed to educate some people.

It really does just feel like banging ones head against the wall though.