Why Vote Third Party?

[BellaBellucci]

Don't worry, Dino. My funhole is still there (although moved to http://xxx.bellabellucci.com and still having production issues at the moment - long story).

But this site isn't about that. It's the new primary portal for all of my sites and will focus on my personal life story and artistic and political endeavors and commentary. You know, the stuff I did BEFORE I took my clothes off for a living (read: got fucked in the ass for a little extra money).

My first political post is about why everyone who can (without throwing the election) should vote for a third party candidate. Check it out. If you like transsexuals who use big words and explain complex concepts (trans-attracted sapiosexual), then I guess it'll be sort of like porn, right?

http://bellabellucci.com/blog/2012/0...e-third-party/

~BB~

[gaysian71]

Woo Hoo. www.lp.org

[danthepoetman]

Very bright and well argued discourse, Bella! I’m very sensible to your arguments. You're making very good points.

[onmyknees]

Don't worry, Dino. My funhole is still there (although moved to http://xxx.bellabellucci.com and still having production issues at the moment - long story).

But this site isn't about that. It's the new primary portal for all of my sites and will focus on my personal life story and artistic and political endeavors and commentary. You know, the stuff I did BEFORE I took my clothes off for a living (read: got fucked in the ass for a little extra money).

My first political post is about why everyone who can (without throwing the election) should vote for a third party candidate. Check it out. If you like transsexuals who use big words and explain complex concepts (trans-attracted sapiosexual), then I guess it'll be sort of like porn, right?

http://bellabellucci.com/blog/2012/0...e-third-party/

~BB~

I'll def give it a look see Bella. From what I did see, there's more agreement than disagreement.

[RallyCola]

i understand why you MIGHT believe that your vote for a 3rd party candidate might actually be something more than a vote in abstention but honestly it is hardly a valid argument simply because 3rd party candidates usually are not viable which is why they do not fit the two-party mold.

Simply put...see Nader 2000 and The Bull-Moose Party for why 3rd party votes are just a way to sway an election but not get your candidate in office.

[Dino Velvet]

Don't worry, Dino. My funhole is still there (although moved to http://xxx.bellabellucci.com and still having production issues at the moment - long story).

But this site isn't about that. It's the new primary portal for all of my sites and will focus on my personal life story and artistic and political endeavors and commentary. You know, the stuff I did BEFORE I took my clothes off for a living (read: got fucked in the ass for a little extra money).

My first political post is about why everyone who can (without throwing the election) should vote for a third party candidate. Check it out. If you like transsexuals who use big words and explain complex concepts (trans-attracted sapiosexual), then I guess it'll be sort of like porn, right?

http://bellabellucci.com/blog/2012/0...e-third-party/

~BB~

I'll give it a peek if you give me a wink.

[Quiet Reflections]

i will definitely be checking that out

[BellaBellucci]

i understand why you MIGHT believe that your vote for a 3rd party candidate might actually be something more than a vote in abstention but honestly it is hardly a valid argument simply because 3rd party candidates usually are not viable which is why they do not fit the two-party mold.

Simply put...see Nader 2000 and The Bull-Moose Party for why 3rd party votes are just a way to sway an election but not get your candidate in office.

I specifically state towards the end of the video that this isn't really about voting for the man, but for his ideas and against the two-party system et al.

~BB~

[GrimFusion]

Don't worry, Dino. My funhole is still there (although moved to http://xxx.bellabellucci.com and still having production issues at the moment - long story).

But this site isn't about that. It's the new primary portal for all of my sites and will focus on my personal life story and artistic and political endeavors and commentary. You know, the stuff I did BEFORE I took my clothes off for a living (read: got fucked in the ass for a little extra money).

My first political post is about why everyone who can (without throwing the election) should vote for a third party candidate. Check it out. If you like transsexuals who use big words and explain complex concepts (trans-attracted sapiosexual), then I guess it'll be sort of like porn, right?

http://bellabellucci.com/blog/2012/0...e-third-party/

~BB~

Speaking of sapiosexuality, your brain makes my dick hard.
*Ahem*

I think the biggest problem with both the democratic and republican parties is that they're riding on platforms which don't come close to repairing some of the largest issues our country is facing. They both want to talk about job growth, but Obama's plan is to improve infrastructure and create construction jobs for workers who are already skilled but unemployed or force unskilled workers though trade schools only so they can find out after graduation that the majority of new jobs have already been filled. Essentially, forcing them to pay into a system that doesn't guarantee any kind of return. The republicans just want to offer more tax cuts to corporations and businesses hoping that they'll use the money they save to hire new employees, but that rarely happens. Instead, they further consolidate job responsibilities and continue laying off employees just to pad their pockets and make more profit.

The democrats say they're all for corporate and government regulation, and Obama ran on that idealism four years ago, but what's happened in the last four years? Obama has chosen to not only continue MANY of Bush's enacted policies but has actually increased our defense budget, sent more troops to the middle east, pulled them out, then sent even more, and increased bombing operations in Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, and Libya. That's just concerning the "war on terrorism" and the apparent government deregulation that's been occurring under his term. If you ask Obama, we're no longer at war. We're involved in "overseas contingency operations". Officially speaking, we've brought all our troops back from the war because it's not a war anymore. Fuckin' pathetic.

Everybody wants to blame Bush for the Patriot Act, but despite it's unpopularity with the majority of the American public and the fact that it breaks the first, fourth, and fifth amendment rights granted to us by the constitution, when it was up to expire, Obama didn't change a single word in the policy and signed it right back into law.

Same deal with the war on drugs. Whether you believe that drug use supports terrorism, decays American social and moral standards, or has become the cause of our devastating national unemployment, it's obvious that the war on drugs hasn't paid off and should either be modified or revoked. Obama has done neither. Instead, he didn't attempt to modify the policy and simply reenacted it.

What happened to holding government accountable and making their actions transparent to the American public? Fuck-all, that's what. Obama promised to publish all non-emergency legislation to a website for five days before the he signed it then broke that promise over and over again. Despite promising to keep lobbyists out of his administration, Obama allowed 17 of them within his first two weeks in office. He's held closed-door stimulus meetings and closed-door healthcare meetings. He upheld the State Secrets Privilege which blocked allegations into CIA torture. The Obama Administration has proven far more aggressive than the Bush Administration in seeking to punish whistle-blowers within the administration. There's no transparency. At least no more transparency than under the Bush administration.

I'm not saying all of this to demonize Obama or make him seem worse than Bush ever was, but democrats who want to claim that most of these enacted policies are all Bush's fault and that Obama simply had to deal with the fall-out are full of shit.

My only real point is to make it more than obvious that republicans and democrats are the same two-headed party with the same motivations and same goals, but different rhetoric. They campaign on empty promises and attempt to distract the American public from important issues by focusing on moral, ethical, and religious matters just to gain support by creating a grandiose "us versus them" battle between Americans that are too stupid to work together.

Voting for a third party is fine, but it won't have any impact or create change until congress is replaced with members from the same party. Even then, corporations and large businesses would need to be heavily regulated, campaign contributions from churches and lobbyists should be banned even if they're funneled through third-parties, our policies on domestic goods and imports would need to be drastically altered, and monopolies on news and media would need to be broken. That's just the beginning of the list and that only ensures politicians cannot put private interests above public interest and are forced to work for the majority of American people instead of themselves.

[Ben]

Interesting article by Paul Craig Roberts. Who was the Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury in the Reagan administration.... It's essentially about how the so-called Two Parties don't get it:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/...sable-america/