My wife and I were evaluating our alternatives in voting for state and county offices (poor) and we noticed something. Among county-wide offices all of the offices are uncontested except County Assessor for which both a Republican and a Democrat are vying for the office. No Republicans are running for any other county-wide office.
Complaining about Democrats is fine. Complaining about Democratic hegemony is fine.
Complaining about Democrats or Democratic hegemony while not even attempting to do anything about it is not fine. It is lazy, cowardly, cynical, or some combination.
Yes, you have to spend money to win elections. That’s true of all offices at every level in every state and nationwide. “He either fears his fate too much or his deserts are small, etc.” You can’t expect to win any election without competing for it. Kwicherbellyakin.
I voted in order: Green, Working Families, Libertarian; and everywhere else the choice was only for Democrat or Republican I wrote in my own candidate.
Ben, when you vote for all these 3rd party candidates, do you know them, their policy positions, or are you choosing them because of an anybody-but-R or D mindset?j
In Nebraska, we have to draft Democrats against their will to run for Governor. Else the process looks bad.
It is a lot of effort to campaign against steep odds. But it can be done.
We have to admit that Trump prevailed over very steep odds in the primary in ’16.
jan,
`What is Freedom? — ye can tell
That which slavery is, too well — For its very name has grown
To an echo of your own.
`’Tis to work and have such pay
As just keeps life from day to day
In your limbs, as in a cell
For the tyrants’ use to dwell,
So that ye for them are made Loom, and plough, and sword, and spade, With or without your own will bent
To their defence and nourishment.
`’Tis to see your children weak
With their mothers pine and peak, When the winter winds are bleak,
They are dying whilst I speak.
`’Tis to hunger for such diet
As the rich man in his riot
Casts to the fat dogs that lie
Surfeiting beneath his eye;
`’Tis to let the Ghost of Gold
Take from Toil a thousandfold
More than e’er its substance could In the tyrannies of old.
`Paper coin — that forgery
Of the title-deeds, which ye
Hold to something of the worth
Of the inheritance of Earth.
`’Tis to be a slave in soul
And to hold no strong control
Over your own wills, but be
All that others make of ye.
Ben, that’s a thoughtful piece posted, one that gives dignity to what should be the content of a meaningful life. So, does your research show that the 3rd party candidates you vote for hold these values in the policies they support.