So I Am Not Alone

The news that the Democrat Party is rigging primary elections across the country has not caused much anger except among progressives. Based on the information below, it appears that the corruption of the political elite has been exposed. If the information is true, then two thirds of the country’s voters will not participate in a system based in evil. Where does that leave us? I suppose we have to define “us”. I doubt there is an “us” in the country. We have been effectively been led into our different cattle pens based on divisions of wealth, education, race, religion or any other factor that can be used to divide us.

So we are the divided states of America or FUSA. I realize that I am begging the question but I do not see any means to unify the country short of a devastating war or large natural disaster. Either of these unifying events will devastate the population and by extension, the perceived power of the “government”. I do not have to wonder the response of our founding fathers: after the shock and initial anger wore off, their response would be to organize and revolt.

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith

Poll: Non-Voters Cite “Corrupt System” as Reason for Opting Out

Nearly two-thirds of adult U.S. citizens will stay away from the polls during the coming midterm elections, and they say they have given up on the political parties and a system that they say is beyond reform and repair, according to a Suffolk University/USA Today nationwide survey of unregistered and unlikely voters.

A majority of those non-voters would like to see a third party or multiple parties.

As for their rationale, 68 percent of unregistered voters and registered-but-unlikely voters agreed with the statement: “I don’t pay much attention to politics because it is so corrupt.” That number is up sharply from a Suffolk University/USA TODAY survey of unregistered and unlikely voters taken in August 2012, when 54 percent agreed with that same statement about politics being “corrupt.”

Nearly 63 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed with the statement “I don’t pay much attention to politics because nothing ever gets done – it’s a bunch of empty promises,” compared to 59 percent who said the same nearly six years ago.

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