It's sad that voters aren't willing to give the third party candidates a try other than voting Demoblican/Repocrat. This would help break the D/R/D/R seesaw of blame by allowing other choices.
Winner take all mandates two parties that gather together a wide swathe of interests. You're either voting for the guy who wants to build a shark filled moat on the border with Mexico, or you're against him. If you want better candidates, vote in the primaries. Kill your party by changing who it is.
Watching the election seesaw is exhausting I'll admit; it would be super keen if people actually voted in midterms so we'd have some stability. Look at the upcoming forecast:
2016: GOP midterm wave of 2010 is slaughtered. Thanks to this year and successful gerrymanding in GOP controlled states, it won't be possible for the Democrats to have total brief control like they had in 2008. Gerrymanders are absolutely crucial to control the House.
2018: Biased for the GOP. They'll make some pickups.
2020: The GOP gains of this year will get removed.
It's depressing to know that this is exactly how the elections will turn out, sitting here in 2014. Jack shit will get done in congress until 2024 or until there's riots on the streets.
I guess that's identical to the past, though... (It's also really exhausting to see shitty political cartoons from a hundred years ago and they're almost word for word identical to the shitty political cartoons of today..)
What gun control?
The gun control that makes it almost 25% as difficult to buy a gun as it is to vote, instead of being easier than getting a beer.
The kind that passed in Washington. Like with minimum wage, people love the policies of Democrats. They just don't like Democrats. Can't really blame them too much; gutless cowards that'll say anything a poll tells them to.
Still really weird how much the South likes the Clintons. The only explanation is that it's voting along tribal lines - they see them as "one of them".
You mean letting the Bush tax cuts (mostly for higher earners, of course) expire
The income tax cuts under 400k are still in place today.
The worker's share of the payroll tax went from 4.2% to 6.2%. A massive +$480 for your average 24k peasant (the entirety of the federal tax a 24k peasant pays). On the other hand, Social Security gets to live another decade before they finally have to actually raise the fooking cap so rich people actually feel some of the burden of SS.
Payroll is ridiculously regressive. If you employ yourself, it's supposed to be around 20% of your profit. If you make over just a few $hundred. People in poverty at that level don't report their income, especially if what they do is paid in cash, like mowing lawns or something.
Domino wrote:$400,000 a year is middle class.
I do like the people who think the economy should work like those in MMORPG's, where the money supply is infinite and there's no taxation whatsoever. For people who complain about inflation so much, you'd think they would want to avoid a world with 30% annual inflation.
Guess that's just asking too much to apply some basic logic with 4th grade math skills...
Anyway, this is really hard to explain to someone that's been in the work force for less than 5 years as they are still enamored of what they can become with selling their soul and overthrowing socialist presidents, but here's a 1st page Google link I found. Feel free to grab one and retort.