What the Cellar looks like to me

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

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My ballot access complaint is not trivial. 100,000 Pennsylvania voters and 40,000 ballot access petition signatories were strategically disenfranchised before the election began. To participate in this process means to accept pretend that the resulting election is fair and representational. The people who died for that notion have already been shit on. In some ways, if I vote, I'm shitting on them too.

UT, I'm glad you posted this last paragraph.
I had completely misunderstood your reason(s) for boycotting the politics threads.

I would agree and join you, but in reality it is only by participating
in your local elections that such situations can be changed.

There's still the old election cliche: "THROW THE BASTARDS OUT"

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

There's still the old election cliche: "THROW THE BASTARDS OUT"

The flaw being, when the challenger is worse than the incumbent.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

The flaw being, when the challenger is worse than the incumbent.

Write in your own name



... or mine

[xoxoxoBruce]

But then when the challenger is elected for lack of your opposition, you end up worse off than you were.