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POLL: Which Party Will Win the Next Presidential Election ?
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I vote for the Green Party.
According to the time stamps, you beat her by two minutes.
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[/Dana Carvey as McLaughlin] The correct answer is the Corporatist Party. Next issue:
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Have you learned nothing from your time on the intertoobz?
I vote ME! come on everyone, Fueldrop for dictator... i mean president :p
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You are supposed to *favorite* the Democrats post or the Republicans post.
If you are unhappy with this particular poll, than make your own.
And/Or ∅ this thread.
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You are supposed to *favorite* the Democrats post or the Republicans post.
If you are unhappy with this particular poll, than make your own.
And/Or ∅ this thread.
Yeah, I figured out the directions. I was just attempting to inject a bit of humor to delay the inevitable trench-warfare hyper-partisan grar-fest all political posts on Paizo inevitably degenerate into.
I was just attempting to inject a bit of humor to delay the inevitable trench-warfare hyper-partisan grar-fest all political posts on Paizo inevitably degenerate into.
The proper tool is the smurf...but...yeah.
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Neither one. Both parties are full of crap. Until the two-party system is destroyed, I will continue to vote 'No Ticket'. The last decent president this country had was well before I was born - Lincoln. Everyone after that has been garbage plain and simple.
The winner is irrelevant. The loser will be the American people either way.
Well said.
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Neither one. Both parties are full of crap. Until the two-party system is destroyed, I will continue to vote 'No Ticket'. The last decent president this country had was well before I was born - Lincoln. Everyone after that has been garbage plain and simple.To Vote, simply *favorite* one of the *Two* posts below:
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Lincoln was an accident of history. He gets props because of the slavery issue being ended under his watch, but he probably would have been a horrible peacetime president.
You're forgetting the best president we've ever had, period. Teddy Roosevelt. He was the first, last and only president to take on corporate America and slap that b+!~& in the face. He was our only truly Progressive president (Wilson was a joke, and Teddy's nephew was, really, the closest to a dictator we've ever had - another accident of history that he is so highly regarded). The next three on the list are probably the first three (Washington, Adams and Jefferson, any order), then after that you can start the "worst" list. And I'd probably put Clinton down as the best of the worst.
Most Presidents, for good or ill, were accidents of history. Either in the right place at the right time or inversely the wrong place at the wrong time. The fact that the union is still together and that this country is not much worse off is a very great blessing. I may not be a fan of all things concerned with the current administration, nor do I like certain new policies. However I am just as concerned with the few options the opposing side has garnered lately. I wish there was a third choice. Unfortunately there is not one at this time.
Well, Gendo's opinion probably is extreme, because Lincoln's the only one I like, too. Actually, I also like Ulysses S. Grant as well, but he was a terrible president.
Anyway, I have no idea who's going to win the next election. If it's anyone other than Paul, it's just going to be business as usual, i.e., pick fights and bully small countries all over the world, tax breaks for the rich, further immiseration for the toiling masses, etc., ad nauseam. And, even if Paul miraculously wins it probably won't be any better--just different.
Also, voting is for ninnies.
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The one that's like that other one.
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You're asking me?!?
International proletarian socialist revolution now!! Here, read these pamphets...
You guys do realize that Lincoln, while not necessarily a bad president (he DID keep the Union together, after all), didn't particularly care about the Constitution? He ignored it more than once. He was what we needed in the Civil War, but I wouldn't want him right now. I would, however, want FDR or Teddy. Either would be awesome. FDR may have been the most dictatorial president ever (except maybe Lincoln), but he got things done.
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Yeah, I get that.
Worked so well the first time, didn't it? But that's off-topic.
While I actually agree with you about a lot of things and think the US needs to move a long way left, I think revolution is far less likely to get any good chance than elections are. And I think elections aren't very likely to. :)
Socialist democracies seem to be a much better system for the people that live in them either the more capitalist nations or the products of communist revolutions. The question is, how to get there from here?
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A violent revolution will just open the door to more and frequent violent revolution whenever one group feels elections went the wrong way.
You guys do realize that Lincoln, while not necessarily a bad president (he DID keep the Union together, after all), didn't particularly care about the Constitution? He ignored it more than once.Yeah, I'm kind of curious what criteria someone's using to like Lincoln but despise everyone since.
Since the usual argument against FDR and some of the others is "expansion of federal power", it's hard to see how Lincoln gets off.
I don't necessarily despise anyone else, or even Lincoln. I'm just pointing out that the man had his faults. He still saved the Union.
As for FDR, he was the most dictatorial president ever. The thing is, he accomplished a lot of good things. I wouldn't be opposed to having another FDR right now.
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Unless there's a horrible scandal with pictures of all his gay sex in Chicago bathhouses, I think Obama will win by a comfortable margin. The Republicans have swung so far into right-wing Christian Taliban land, they'll turn off the moderates. Their low turnouts in the primaries are evidence they already have.
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Want to change the system?
Invent something, invest in a growing company, start your own business or otherwise become wealthy.
Vote with your cash to canidates or things you believe in.
Use the ambition you have to change things, and really change it.
Do it yourself, for yourself. Or run for office yourselves.
Want to change the system?
Invent something, invest in a growing company, start your own business or otherwise become wealthy.
Vote with your cash to canidates or things you believe in.
Use the ambition you have to change things, and really change it.
Do it yourself, for yourself. Or run for office yourselves.
Won't work. If you aren't a corporate executive, you have no say in politics in America aside from voting for the president and the odd referendum. Want to really change things? Pressure the judiciary to start prosecuting congress for all the corporate bribes they take.
Worked for Buffet, Gates, Steve Jobs (RIP), Hollywood elites, and any other fithly rich Liberal and Conservative out there.
While I agree with you that there is some serious conflict of interest issues with congress, they can be voted out of office.
Only to be replaced with people who will also take bribes. We don't need to vote them from office, we need to prosecute them to show that this won't be tolerated any more. We also need to cap how much money a campaign can legally spend.
Well, that's a risk you take with any public official.
Yes, and I agree. But a better bet, and less costly I would imagine, is to not vote for d-bags in the first place.
Yeah, I get that.
Worked so well the first time, didn't it? But that's off-topic.
Spoilered for off-topicness:
As for the Lincoln love, well, I can't speak for Gendo, but, yeah, it's pretty much the whole freeing of the slaves thing. It was pretty cool.
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Well, that's a risk you take with any public official.
Yes, and I agree. But a better bet, and less costly I would imagine, is to not vote for d-bags in the first place.
The problem is, you can't tell which are and aren't going to take bribes, and bribery is so rampant that it needs to be stopped. Right now, America is a Corporatocracy. That needs to change before we get completely screwed over for corporate benefit. They WILL run the economy into the ground and keep starting wars so long as it makes them money.
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You guys do realize that Lincoln, while not necessarily a bad president (he DID keep the Union together, after all), didn't particularly care about the Constitution? He ignored it more than once.Yeah, I'm kind of curious what criteria someone's using to like Lincoln but despise everyone since.
Since the usual argument against FDR and some of the others is "expansion of federal power", it's hard to see how Lincoln gets off.
+1 I detest Lincoln passionately.
+1 I detest Lincoln passionately.You guys do realize that Lincoln, while not necessarily a bad president (he DID keep the Union together, after all), didn't particularly care about the Constitution? He ignored it more than once.Yeah, I'm kind of curious what criteria someone's using to like Lincoln but despise everyone since.
Since the usual argument against FDR and some of the others is "expansion of federal power", it's hard to see how Lincoln gets off.
Well, you have to consider the situation he was put in. I don't think he was infallible, and I wouldn't want to live under him, but I don't detest the man.
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JOHN JACKSON: I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far!
JACK JOHNSON: And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!
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Lincoln was an accident of history. He gets props because of the slavery issue being ended under his watch, but he probably would have been a horrible peacetime president.
You're forgetting the best president we've ever had, period. Teddy Roosevelt. He was the first, last and only president to take on corporate America and slap that b*$@% in the face. He was our only truly Progressive president (Wilson was a joke, and Teddy's nephew was, really, the closest to a dictator we've ever had - another accident of history that he is so highly regarded). The next three on the list are probably the first three (Washington, Adams and Jefferson, any order), then after that you can start the "worst" list. And I'd probably put Clinton down as the best of the worst.
And that, Derek, is one of those posts I was talking about agreeing with you.
I haven't read up yet, but I voted that I think the Democrats are going to win. That doesn't mean I'm going to vote for the Democrats, though, just so we're clear. Don't want anyone seeing that I favorited that post and thinking I'm going soft as we get closer to the election.
Break with the Democrats!
Vive le Galt!
Worked for Buffet, Gates, Steve Jobs (RIP), Hollywood elites, and any other fithly rich Liberal and Conservative out there.
While I agree with you that there is some serious conflict of interest issues with congress, they can be voted out of office.
If you're not rich, it's your own fault! LOL!
You guys do realize that Lincoln, while not necessarily a bad president (he DID keep the Union together, after all), didn't particularly care about the Constitution? He ignored it more than once.
I don't think this statement is accurate or true.
Lincoln violated the Constitution many a time, true. But he had a very thought-out legal explanation about why he could do so. Whether you agree or not, he certainly never ignored the Constitution.
In fact, if he had, the whole Emancipation Proclamation would have played out differently. The whole argument about the hypocrisy of Lincoln outlawing slavery where the Union army had no power and continuting to protect it where it did ignores that the President had no Constitutional power to end slavery, EXCEPT, by seizing it is as enemy contraband in times of war. Or something.
I, of course, don't much care about the Constitution. In fact, I solidarize more with William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist who used to get mauled and beaten on the Boston Common for burning it as a contract with slavery.
Suspending habeus corpus. Even a judge told him it was unconstitutional. Granted, I'm not convinced that the constitution should even apply during an all out war, but this isn't about what I think, it's about what he did.
I don't think he was a bad person. I'm just pointing out to others some of what he did.
+1 I detest Lincoln passionately.You guys do realize that Lincoln, while not necessarily a bad president (he DID keep the Union together, after all), didn't particularly care about the Constitution? He ignored it more than once.Yeah, I'm kind of curious what criteria someone's using to like Lincoln but despise everyone since.
Since the usual argument against FDR and some of the others is "expansion of federal power", it's hard to see how Lincoln gets off.
Boo! Lincoln rocked!
Srly, though, let's hijack this thread. Tensor's poll is at the top and there's all this space down below, just sitting around doing nothing.
Who's Your Favorite President? Just For Fun
So, we've got:
Lincoln--Gendo, me
Teddy--HD
Ben Franklin--Sebastian, Comrade Del Espada
FDR--Mama Kelsey
Ronnie--Kryzbyn
TJ--BT and Mr. Negri
Who else? Comrade Jeff? Citizen Kryzbyn, BT and all my Fawtl Refugee Peeps?
The thing is, the judge's argument is how it is, regardless of whether the judge is in fact correct, because the judge is the lawful authority on this matter, not the president.
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I vote for FDR as my favorite.