Kavanaugh SCOTUS hearings

[Benton]

(10-08-2018, 10:44 AM)GMDino Wrote: I get you think people will get angry and change things via the ballot box...but I still maintain that a) things are so set up now that turnover of elected officials is hard and will be minimal at best and b) they can institute more ways to make getting voted out harder than it already is.

Add to that that when the other side does come in to rebalance things and fix the mistakes people will then get mad at THEM for the eventual economic downturn and environmental cleanups.  Just like Obama got "blamed" for not fixing the economy "fast enough". 

In national elections, less than 60 percent of eligible voters vote. And that's split pretty evenly between two parties. Somewhere between a half and a third of those folks don't think their respective party represents them, they just have to vote for "someone."

So that's — roughly — 40-70 percent of the country that doesn't like Democrats or Republicans, some voting and some not. The more Schumers and McConnells we get, the more that number grows. I don't totally write off humanity as being all dumb and easily manipulated. Eventually, they're going to start speaking out instead of just being led around.