Reply #11: Now see, this is what I'm talking about [View All]

Just this very thing, fearmongering and bully boy tactics. Do you know WHY people are voting third party? The same reason that there are fifty million non-voters, they have become so hopeless and cynical about both parties. They realize that neither party cares one bit about them, neither party is looking out for their interests, that both parties are corporately corrupt and the candidates aren't beholden to their constituents but to their corporate masters.

If you would get off of your high horse for a minute and come to the table with something besides ridicule and fear, then the possiblities for a Dem victory are endless. Think about it, toss out universal health care for a platform plank, and I guarantee that that move alone would bring the Dems in 12 million votes alone. Think I'm joking? Let me explain it to you. You have fifty million non-voters in this country, many if not the majority are so poor, so entrenched in the dark underbelly of our society that they have come to the conclusion(quite rightly) that their voice, much less their vote makes no difference in the greater scheme of things. If you through out universal health care for these people(the real deal, not the faux shit Clinton spouted), all of the sudden the poor and downtrodden would see how their vote could make a vast improvement in their lives. It is more than likely that half of the non-voters in this country would get off their ass to vote for something that would radically improve their lives like UHC, and a lock that at least twenty five percent of the non-voters would do this. That adds up to 12 million votes in the Dem column, with looooong coattails. Gee, and everybody gets something. The Dems get the win they want, and the poor get health care, wow talk about win-win.

But hey, if the Dems haven't learned this lesson from '00 and '02 when they tried the same fearmongering and bully boy tactics, then I guess they're in for a remidial lesson this year.