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Originally Posted by willravel
I vote that way because I did my homework. I studies about 20 different parties and eventually came to the conclusion that the Green Party was mine. We don't share some of the same values on things like immigration, so I don't want to sell you something you won't like. It's up to you. Go see what's out there and experience them for yourself. I can't tell you what party you should belong to, only you can do that.
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We don't share some of the same values on things like immigration, so I don't want to sell you something you won't like.
THAT is the majority of the problem. I'm not going to like everything about the party I select, I didn't like everything about the Dems (back in the day) but I liked and believed in enough of their values and plans for a better future that I supported them.
What I'm getting so far is "that's life."
We are the United States of America, the greatest country this world has ever seen and we are allowing retirees to be taxed out of their homes, we are allowing our educational system (once the greatest asset our country ever had) to fall apart, we are allowing companies to dictate policy, we are losing everything great our forefathers fought for, believed in and would die for and we sit here and accept it?????
Where the fuck are the voices? Where are our great leaders to show us better?
What is the point of working for forty years, pouring your heart, blood sweat and tears into a job and achieve the American dream of owning a home when as soon as you retire you find they raise your taxes to the point you have to seel that little piece of land that you worked so hard for?
Where are the vlues and dreams of a better future when we allow government to decimate the biggest asset our country ever had (the public education system)?
Where are the voices for the workers to make sure the workers get fairly treated?
What are we showing our youth when we allow this to happen?
Yet, so far, I have been told to just accept it.... why, why should I just accept it? Why can't a single person who is here tell me that they feel the same way and they too are tired of it?
Why are you just accepting it? Why aren't you demanding better?
If enough people stand up and demand better then we'll find better.... but if we say "the lesser of 2 evils", "vote this way to protest", etc etc.... that's negative ways to get change and by accepting negative ways to get change you only change in a negative way.
Why is this fucking acceptable to so many people?