I’m Tired of the Rhetoric: Do Something Heroic
It is time to draw a line in the sand and see who will step over it and who doesn’t.
If you voted for Trump in 2016 but will not vote for him again because of the things he has done and the things he is doing, it is time for us to hear your voice.
It is time for the Republican Party to hear your voice.
It’s time for your Republican governors, senators, congressmen, members of the state legislatures, mayors and city councils to hear your voice….but don’t bother to send letters, or emails or sign petitions, because that’s just more bullshit.
What should you do?
Just do one thing.
Something really, really, easy to do. It won’t cost you anything to do it, but you could save this country and this planet by doing it.
Change your party affiliation.
Switch your party affiliation to the Democratic party.
You don’t have to vote Democratic.
You don’t have to like the Democratic candidates. (I don’t either.)
You don’t have to like the Democratic party’s platform. (I don’t either.)
The problem that we are facing together in this country right now is that we are being manipulated by people who make a living by telling us what they think we think about what’s going on.
Pollsters. They are all full of shit, but they are manipulating the electoral process. Getting good poll scores is one of the two ways that candidates are allowed into the debates or kept out of them. The other way is campaign contributions.
We have this huge problem in our electoral process.
Unlike the Parliamentary system used by the British and many other countries, where you can vote a president or prime minister out of office on a vote of no confidence, we are stuck with whichever moron we got in the last election for the next four years.
That’s not Democracy. That’s a serial dictatorship.
There is exactly one way that we can influence the course of the nation between presidential elections and that way is to change your party affiliation.
Changing your party affiliation tells the leadership of your party that you are no longer with them and that they have lost your vote in the next election.
I keep hearing that many Republicans are disgusted with Trump and the things he has done to this country.
I want to believe that. I don’t. I think your 401K is more important to you than the freedom of speech, the right of assembly, religious tolerance, racial harmony, or fixing our climate.
God damn it. Prove me wrong.
Change your party affiliation right now.
If you can’t stomach registering as a Democrat (and I wouldn’t blame you for that either), then register as an independent. (Don’t register as a Libertarian or a Green. For better or worse this is a TWO party system and that is not going to change this year or next year.)
Please…Click HERE to Change your Party Affiliation right now.
The Nation You Save May Be Your Own
08/08/2019 @ 4:10 pm
Thanks.
Too, an R has other choices than to switch to D and be effective.
08/08/2019 @ 6:55 pm
How many parties other than D & R are represented in any elective office. (There’s that one Green on the Mpls city council…) No one cares how many people are registered, just who wins.
08/08/2019 @ 5:50 pm
Good idea!
08/08/2019 @ 6:46 pm
“Switch your party affiliation to the Democratic party.”
Wow… how very centrist, stealth Republican of you to try to get the Democratic Party to move even further to the right than it already is.
BTW, you doubly gave yourself away by cautioning people against registering as a “Libertarian or a Green” (and I’m guessing Democratic Socialist too). If you REALLY gave a rat’s ass about “sending a message” you would encourage people to move much farther to the Left than a party whose leadership wants to coronate the likes of “Creepy Joe” Biden.
08/08/2019 @ 6:56 pm
P.S. “Vote Smart”, where your link sends you, is a stellar example of centrist bias and establishment Democratic Party incremental “right-ism”.
08/10/2019 @ 2:58 pm
No, Amy. Votesmart.com is simply a place where you can find the Secretary of State’s web page for changing your party affiliation for any given state. I actually started off compiling a complete list of those links and decided it was easier to simply post one link instead of 50. I did’t refer people to the VoteSmart home page, just to the lookup page for the link to change affiliations/
08/10/2019 @ 3:00 pm
I didn’t give myself away. I have been very upfront about my disgust for people who vote for useless, powerless third parties. I am also a lifelong socialist…and I would never vote for a socialist candidate because I have never seen a socialist candidate worth fighting for since Eugene Debbs.
08/09/2019 @ 1:46 am
Mr. Marshall isn’t suggesting not being de facto centrist. He’s suggesting not being de facto fascist. Centrists don’t have a lot to do with the recent mass murders in El Paso or Dayton. Incidentally, my wife’s family is from the Dayton area and my niece was a high school friend of one of the people killed in Dayton. Yes, there is a difference between the Republicans and the Centrists.
Even if you’re a real leftist, because this is a two party system you’re better off as a Democrat than as a Green. Does anyone think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would have more political impact as a Green? Does anyone think we’d have more hope of getting Trump out of office if both Bernie and Warren were going to be third party candidates?
But this post isn’t addressed to leftists. It’s addressed to current Republicans and is about the best way to tell the Republican leadership that this course is suicidal. If you’re looking to influence the Republican leadership, staging an exodus to the Democrats will scare them way more than staging an exodus anywhere else. That’s a matter of numbers: If someone switches to the Democrats, the Republicans are threatened twice – once by the loss of a vote and once by the gain of a vote to their most viable opponent.