It's a growing number certainly. The answer however isn't to vote in favor of government control (like Obama / democratic fanatics that seem to believe government = the answer to everything), because in case you missed the memo, corporations own the government.
Of course not. I don't believe voting has any affect at all as long as corporations are still allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money on campaigns.
And even if it did, corporate Lobbying could take a good guy like Ron and run him through the grinder until he talked, voted, and acted just like Bush, Obama, et all do.
It's pointless, but I do hope RP wins so America can watch him turn from what he is now int GWB the 3rd.
I'd much rather "waste" my vote on RP (someone seemingly not controlled by corp's) than to either not vote, or vote someone who's "in the middle".
I'm cool with that. Good luck.
Now, why are you guys picking on Scococo for basically saying the same thing? He may be Bad at math, but can't you see what he means with his Steinbeck quote? He's basically saying the system here has been too fucked by the corporations or media for your vote to matter. Sounds familiar.
AR Scion said:
The mindset most conducive to success is the mindset of a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
Not even close. In fact it's VERY MUCH the opposite.
When a person, say, all middle and lower class americans, truly believe like they do that they are only temporarily broke, and one day they'll be rich, skinny, and famous like the magic box tells them they will be, they develop a feeling of ENTITLEMENT.
I remember it well, it was very seductive. When you feel entitled to sit in a lazy boy all day long and let the government or our "land of the free" in general pay for your entertainment and future millions of dollars, why would you ever need to work for it?
This is who you're selling Acai pills to. Without that entitlement you'd never have even heard of acai nor any other product for stupid americans.
Ron Paul has TWO major fucking hurdles in his way, and if you guys don't start addressing them both then you are wasting every keystroke on him and others like him...
1. Americans are DUMB, Entitled, lazy bastards. They might want "Change we can believe in," but only if that change isn't specific enough to tell them about the price you have to pay for that change.
They aren't smart enough to vote for Paul because they aren't smart enough to see the problems (AT ALL) that he wants to fix.
2. The corporations see him as a threat. Paul has outwardly spoken out about many things that will take their profits away.
I won't harp on this one again and talk about the amendment needed this time but WTF do you guys think you can do about this at all? Anything? Besides sticking your head in the sand?