#multi-party system

[pooyamohit]

A Call for a Multi-Party System

To concede just one inch would compromise and tarnish the entire platform Ron Paul Supporters represent and have worked so diligently to establish.

What this means to me is that this movement has CLOUT and the RNC is desperately seeking creative ways to dismantle ANY chance that Dr. Paul can get a nomination bid from the floor.

I cannot fathom any true libertarians even dreaming of supporting a Romney/Ryan ticket as it is converse to the Paul platform of a sensible and small central government, a prime Libertarian tenet.

Don’t we deserve a real candidate with time proven views? A candidate who is firm with his ideals and not just another politician placating to his immediate audience only to abandon them once they are out of view?

It is after all the RNC who shackles the media’s coverage and handling of their candidates to the point that the debate questions included “who do you prefer, Johnny Cash or Elvis?” Honestly what bearing does that have on the potential future head of state? Shame on you RNC for being a walking sham and the epitome of our governmental degradation.

The DNC is no better. The time for the multi-party system is upon us. This bi-partisan bickering and fallacious mud-slinging sludge-fest is a detriment to our nations well-being and forward progress.

We already depict a portrait of ignorance to rest of the world and this election cycle is not helping the situation. To me, it appears we choose our president by virtue of the most effective slanderer.

What happened to media law and ethics? Libel ala Newsweek and their ‘hit the road Obama’ cover story… so many misrepresentations during elections that just go un-exposed and under-punished.

Where are all the intellectuals of America? Why are they not furious? A smart man staying out of politics is a joke because that smart man (whichever male or female it may be) is selfish for not serving their nation through support of just campaigns and media coverage.

I know that this isn’t new, but have we lost our public sanity when it comes to politics? It is our job as citizens to be an informed electorate that vigilantly holds our public servants accountable for their every action. We elect heads of state while never asking them what they will honestly do for us. It is all hot topics and buzzwords.

We should be grilling this candidates till they are well-done. No holds barred, as we viciously question the character and platform of each candidate, leaving the strongest and best-suited contender standing. Instead we act like blind cheerleaders to hypocrisy laden political concoctions, sipping the kool-aid but never asking for the ingredients. The only cure is to widen the playing field to the point where consolidation of power is maximally difficult.

I know it is an idealistic aspiration, but I thought America was about reaching for the stars NOT settling.

-P. Mohit

[poldefunct-blog-blog]

Freedom in the US is a Lie

So I somewhat have the urge for the United State to fall into civil war. A war of those asking for the greater good and doing right against those of lies, greed and repression. So I can become a rebel fighting for survival and the given the chance to kill and/or arrest those of the far right and establish a true democracy instead of a Plutocracy of two parties that truly don't give a damn. People take for granted that our very privacy is being stripped away day by day in claims of "National Security". We support Israel's inhuman rights against the Palestinian people. We support Bahrain's violent crackdown just for a naval base supposedly people that really don't like us. We yell at Syria as they open fire on innocents as Israel bulldozes homes. Kills unarmed protesters and segregate their nation against non-jews. Do you really think that's okay?

Might I add anti-war groups are under surveillance by our intelligence agencies to prevent them from affecting public opinion our suppose of free media is owned by large corporations that rather dictate their political views instead of actually reporting on other minor parties. We commit war crimes and no one goes punished. Yet when one man leaks our crimes we lock HIM up instead? Whistle blowers should be embraced. We are the most hated nation on the planet.

Our government has been hijacked by corporations. Our views have been diluted. Instead of picking between two evils and whose better looking. We should vote according to party and their views versus' our own. We should gather together as a consensus. Why should we leave the Military budget alone? Why do we have to risk American lives in the rest of the world? Iraq was the far-right's grab at Oil. Afganistan was a place we could keep our military strong and experienced. Libya again is for Oil but I believe it is a righteous to help for the transition to a elected state. Can they vote to be socialist. Why the hell not? It's their views but as long as those views can change with time.

The United States have intervened with 25 countries since the end of World War II. Some democratically elected yet forced to "Centrist" views with Military force. Are we proud of this? We have vilified Arabs as the Germans did the Jews. We speak of Human Rights yet secretly torture others. Jefferson once said.

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

We need to take a stand. Not because of our own greed at rising prices just because we can't afford cable or to buy nice things. There are people dieing in this world and the only time it is ever valid is if we have something to profit off it. If you don't believe our current system works. Please spread the word that you're tired of this bullshit.

[undercovernun]

That's right, a Senator in Belgium is urging spouses and significant others of all politicians to refuse sex until the deadlock in forming a government is broken.

In the US, we don't have to worry about this, because we have a two-party system, so automatically there is a majority party.  But in nations with true multi-party systems, there may not be a party that has a majority of votes.  If the votes break down as 5%-27%-33%-35%, then two of those parties are going to have to get together to form a government somehow.  Until this gets worked out, the work of governing goes undone.

In Belgium, they're at a 242 days of deadlock, just a week shy of the record 249 days set by Iraq.  That's more than 8 months with no chief executive, no way to pass legislation, presumably no budget.  I'm sure it's not a happy place to be right now.  Happier than Egypt, perhaps, but that's owing to the lack of violence.

Undercover Nun prays for the people of Belgium, and for peace among its recently-elected politicians.

Also?  The last paragraph of the story is the best.

Catherine Fonck, a Christian democrat senator, rejected the call.  "I don't want to take part in a sex strike," she said. "Politicians are not there to strike. On the contrary, politicians are there to arouse the country."

Pun intended, I'm sure.  (And pray for me, a sinner.)