politics

[embers_log]

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

Comments

[lovejames]

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.
i have voted for a third party for 30? years now.
Most of your 'hot buttons' are not only mine but i think, most of those with a brain. i wouldn't necessarily have them in the same order but we agree on most. What i find saddening, disheartening and downright depressing, is the fact that we have been fighting for most of them for way too long without any discernable results.
We advance so far and so fast in science & tech and so damn slowly socially. The main problem to my mind is actually two-fold. First, most people do not seem to want change of any kind if it rocks their boat and second, nothing will change if there's money in it. We have barely advanced in my life time!
And i'm so sick of any country but especially mine, that they can find MILLIONS, at the drop of a bloody hat, to help third world countries but fail to help their own first. Why try to support the sick and the starving of someone else's people when your own need your attention?
i feel ill every time it happens.

[embers_log]

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.