Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 05, 2015

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    mischugenah  over 9 years ago

    And if your candidate isn’t a member of one of the two major parties, they may as well not exist to the media and polling groups.

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    Randy B Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Sometimes you can find one of those in the primaries, treated primarily as comic relief by the rest of the party.

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    Varnes  over 9 years ago

    Richard, yeah, that sucks big time, but I don’t think anybody is going to do anything about it…Too much work….

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    Varnes  over 9 years ago

    How long before somebody here applies a label to the Party that has the H Q……You know it’s gonna happen….

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    Varnes  over 9 years ago

    BTW, Burt has limited people to vote for, if that is how he thinks….

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    phylum  over 9 years ago

    it seems he has made up his mind not to vote this time around…

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    Buckimion  over 9 years ago

    If they are all the same, why are the Koch Bros. spending millions to unseat Democrats?

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 9 years ago

    A corporation is only a legal collective, like any city, any union, any business or any group of concerned citizens united in a common cause.Some collectives are concerned only with profit and employing the influence of government to increase their ability to generate revenue. Most of them, in fact. The difference is that some actually contribute to the creation of wealth and employment and are not just parasitic and non-productive seekers of influence and monetary gain. They are thus demonized for their failure to conform to societal norms.

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    tripwire45  over 9 years ago

    Politicians are all tools regardless of party affiliation.

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    dadoctah  over 9 years ago

    I found an easy way to decide who to vote for. Anybody robocalls my house to ask for my vote (or even worse, asks me not to vote for someone else), they’re off the list. One by one, they disqualify themselves from getting my vote..Come election day, I get to stay home and watch cartoons.

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    whiteheron  over 9 years ago

    I will vote for Jefferson Smith. I want him to go to Washington.

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    zenguyuno  over 9 years ago

    Bernie Sanders is not a corporate tool.

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    Timothy Madigan Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Yes – buy stock or ownership in the corporation. It gives you a voice and a vote for board members.

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    dabugger  over 9 years ago

    Right, who ever does not represent the powers who own, may never have a chance. The candidate must have their permission and the media. Making democracy a sham.

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    Gokie5  over 9 years ago

    IMHO, this guy does a great job of explaining what’s what:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-inequality-is-a-choice.html?_r=0

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    Alabama Al  over 9 years ago

    Reading the comments on this message board servers to give continuing confirmation of two life observations I’ve made:`1. People who are basically corrupt always believe everyone else is corrupt.`2. I’ve never met a coward that didn’t think of himself/herself as a very intelligent person.`Actually, there’s a third observation:`3. Never expect people to be grateful for having points 1 and 2 pointed out to them.

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    hippogriff  over 9 years ago

    John Locke: But how do you propose to take the military away from the corporations and back to a government of, by, and for the People?

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    ms-ss  over 9 years ago

    I think the best bet for that would be Mike Huckabee…….hope I’m not wrong.

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    Rarely528  over 9 years ago

    Were it not so. A tad scary.

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    Guilty Bystander  over 9 years ago

    But they’re ALL corporate tools. Unless there’s a “None of the Above” on the ballot, you’re stuck. My own strategy in November will be to vote exclusively for challengers, regardless of party affiliation.

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    Kveldulf  over 9 years ago

    If Burt lived in Canada, he would actually have a viable candidate to vote for — Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party. Nobody laughs at Elizabeth, she has been voted the hardest working person in Parliament and the leaders of the other parties are afraid of her..Alas, the Greens hold only two seats.

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    CarolinaGirl  over 9 years ago

    Ben Carson!!!

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    KEA  over 9 years ago

    Politicians are playing with the rules they’ve been dealt… written by the Capitalist Elite. I’m afraid only a 2nd American Revolution will change it.

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    dflak  over 9 years ago

    Next election I’m going to be patriotic and buy American. I don’t want any foreign-owned politicians. I want my elected officials to be bought and paid for by local interests.

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    Varnes  over 9 years ago

    Look, corporations own the U.S. military in all it’s forms, public and private, They determine what it does….No one else…. People,….We were warned about this over half a century ago…By a Republican president…Dwight D. Eisenhower even labeled it….The Military Industrial Complex…He predicted what it does now….It runs our lives, it sends our kids overseas to die for no reason, it loves war because that’s how it makes money…If it wasn’t for our civilian president, we would have 700,000 children fighting ISIS in the desert to make money for corporations right now…

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    Fuzzy Thinker Premium Member over 9 years ago

    I always vote against the incumbent.

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    Mokurai  over 9 years ago

    One party enlists corporate and private wealth for purposes of enriching the wealthy and powerful and oppressing others—minorities, women, immigrants, the young, the old, scientists, Muslims, and so on, destroying civil society and the economy in the process. The other enlists corporate and private wealth for purposes of enriching he wealthy and powerful and lifting up all of those others, and building up civil society and the economy. I have no trouble choosing between them. And one day, we will lift up enough of us to vote out the corporate tools and put the corporations and the wealthy in their places.

    As President Obama has said, “Don’t boo. Organize.”

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    caligula  over 9 years ago

    Yep and why is Soros spending BILLIONS?There are differences, but they primarily involve WHICH corporate sponsors each party has. For instance, in that category I could count Unions who agitate based on their own views, rather than those of their members, most particularly Unions where membership is. what is that word again . . . subject to extortion in order to collect dues. Afterall, all those Unions would go away if they couldn’t charge non-members Union dues and require them to “Carry the Card” if they want to work.

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    Gokie5  over 9 years ago

    “That’s just the bonuses.”

    Yep. That were a good one.

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    neeeurothrush  over 9 years ago

    may the 5th be with you

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    JoshuaD  over 9 years ago

    So, Bernie Sanders then?

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    hippogriff  over 9 years ago

    Kveldulf: CBC gives air time to each party in proportion to MPs, so they can know about such things north of the line. We have a Green Party in this country, but the corporate media has banned any mention of them. No members of Congress yet, but a lot of local and regional office holders. Probably the largest office with real power is Richmond, CA, whose Green mayor just got term-limited out (but won a seat on the city council). Main results: lowering the murder rate from highest per capita in the nation, and preventing banks from stealing people’s houses (if attempted foreclosure, buy it under eminent domain, renegotiate the loan, and keep the neighborhoods stable).

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    connie  over 9 years ago

    Yes, Bernie Sanders!

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