Voting Off-Party

THE CENTURION CHONICLE Special Issue – Oct - 2010

VOTING OFF PARTY
(if you don't care for jackasses or pachyderms anymore)

Among many folks who are registered, and actually vote, there seems to be the mistaken notion that they can only vote for candidates of either the Democratic or the Republican parties and, to do otherwise, is to waste their votes.

That's a completely false notion, and here's why….if like many of us you've come to the conclusion that you no longer care for either jackasses or pachyderms anymore, because neither give a damn about the taxpaying voters, then voting off-party, is the only way we can effect real "change".

Consider this – if a whole lot of folks did just that, both those two major parties would lose their strangleholds on the Congressional machinery. This is particularly important where it concerns the House of Representatives because the House controls matters of taxation policy, and how the tax revenues from that are to be spent.

Thus, if enough us voted for other than Democrat or Republican candidates, these would find themselves facing a caucus of non-party members in the House which they could neither control nor ignore, because it would be the balance of voting power needed to pass any bill or legislation. Simply put – such a caucus would have "leverage" disproportionate to its actual numbers.

And with that leverage we taxpayers might have a fighting chance to recapture the governance of our country from the hands of the career politicos who are running it for their interests, not ours. Perhaps even regaining enough to effect real "change" for our country to be what we want it to be, and, what we think it should be.

Well, it boils down to this….in a few more weeks all of us who do vote will have to make a tough choice….do we continue to vote in the same old lemming-minded way for the same career politicos dominating both of those parties, or, will we have the guts to vote off-party to effect whatever real "change" we can get?

As things are, doing so might not give us anything much better than what we have right now, but it sure as hell couldn't result in anything worse than what we have today.

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