Roe Vs Wade Overturned

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(06-27-2022, 01:48 PM)PDub80 Wrote: Look, clearly you aren't a fan of the GOP, which is fine... I get that...  but that saltiness isn't going to further this discussion. The rules of an election are what they are. If the majority ruled.... well, let's be honest, the majority are stupid.... which is part of why the electoral college exists. It isn't a perfect system of government, I agree... But, at this point, anyone bitching about the Trump administration's results - not the man himself, but the results - while living with the results of the current one doesn't make sense to me. These political parties aren't sports teams where people should hold any kind of long term allegiance to them. They are human beings with real power over others. They either do well as a group, or they do not.

I just want to point out that I'm a libertarian who is disappointed both parties have agreed to eliminate any hope of a 3rd party having any effect or relevance since that whole Ross Perot wild card thing.  I'm bummed out because as I accepted that we won't get 3 parties, I'm also beginning to see an increased interest in further reducing our political choices to a guy who leans right versus a guy who leans further right.

My disdain for the GOP goes back to Reagan, but it's different in the sense that we are now seeing increasing legitimization of the reduction if not outright elimination of the democratic process and that just so happens to be via the side of the political coin that is able to win despite only having the minority of support because the majority is stupid and so on and so forth.

That's how I see it.  So even accepting that we need to have a set of rules where the minority can rule, the fact that the minority is choosing to go down the path is it is the issue.  Would I feel different if someone said that votes for Gary Johnson counted as 100,000 votes for Hillary or Trump?  Damn right, but that ain't so, so I don't.

So yea, I'm in the minority that is too minor to get those sweet minority benefits.  Ouch.

EDIT - And let me point out that in 2016 I enthusiastically voted for Johnson/Weld, two successful republican governors who were thrown aside for Trump.  So perhaps my saltiness isn't for concept of non-democrats being elected but for the climate the "easy road" political party has taken.  That's my two cents, and I could be wrong.  Hell I hope I'm wrong.  Tell me how things get less crazy....er, other then me just quitting my internet politics addition.  That's obvious.