UB, I understand your frustration. But that line of thinking as far as voting is exactly what the enemy wants. Make no mistake they are the enemy and you not voting is like two votes for them. Sometimes you just have to hold your nose and vote. Not doing so is not how I think.
You have no idea how many times I have given others this exact advice myself. I have been in sync 100% with your comment. I just don't know that I can follow this very sage advice any longer. My comment prior is not typical of my thinking. I will see, right now I am watching intently. I am going to be disappointed beyond description if the Republican blow this vitally important issue like they have been doing with almost everything for the last few years.
Nutless wonders most of them.
I have long said to my family and friends... Republicans and Democrats are boils on the same ass. and both parties need lanced.
Take a look at the last 20 years. We have seen our economy spiral in, and who gets bailed out? banks and car manufacturers that were "too big to fail". Then we have seen the house/ senate and president all majorly Democrat with a supermajority in one of the houses. they passed the Affordable Healthcare Act which was neither affordable or really healthcare and they got that passed by throwing legislation into the act terminating the privilege of generating student loans by privately held companies (unless you were a specific one from a specific state that was exempt in order for that state's spineless jackass to support the bill, so two lies in one. The Democrat controlled government did nothing to work on any other problem. Nothing to address illegal immigration. Nothing to address security of our borders. nothing to address skyrocketing national debt other than to spend more money.
we have seen the pendulum swing back to the right with the promise of "repealing Obamacare". when has that happened? it hasn't. the best we can say is that much of the crappy parts have been defunded. but it is the "law of the land", so we can't scrap it and rethink the entire process. We always have one (or as many as needed) republican to sink anything to undo most of the crappy laws from the previous regime. Don't you find that interesting? the Republicans battle cry from 2010 to 2016 was "we will undo/ repeal Obamacare". they had at least six (6) YEARS to work out a viable alternative so that when they had a chance (ie when Trump took over and we had a majority in both houses) and what happens? NOTHING. they don't have a clue. they should have had a plan and implemented it.
So now we are at a point that the Republicans can really set the bar and do some good by confirming what appears to be a solid individual for the Supreme Court. so what do they do? they wet their pants and wring their hand over the "accusations" brought forth by a confirmed leftist and Trump hater who publicaly said she is out to cause problems for Trump. convenient. then when her credibility gets shredded, more liars come out of the woodwork to sink Kavanaugh, and the republicans are still wetting their pants and wringing their hands. Stop the crap, and if you have damning evidence that Kavenaugh did something, present it, and fry his ass right away. But, I dont' think they do. it is all a stall tactic.
At this point, we need to purge both parties and if the majority of the US would vote for a decent independent we could get somewhere. and this is both state wide and usa wide.
So to fix this, we need to implement term limits, and all congressmen and senators pay and benefits should be cut. no more raises for the crappy job they do. they will be paid the median income of the jurisdiction that they represent. so unless they are bringing in new decent paying jobs , they don't get a raise. Any laws passed are applicable to them as well. none of this elitist horscrap that we have now that exempts them. Otherwise we will continue to see the rampant assbaggery in our government
that we see today.
I could go on and on, but you get my drift.
AJ
