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Americans Are Disgusted By BOTH Republicans and Democrats
Famed trend forecaster Gerald Celente predicted in 2009 that a third party presidential candidate could win in 2012.
It obviously didn’t happen. But could a third party win in 2016?
Poll after poll shows that both mainstream parties are deeply unpopular with the American people.
Poll after poll shows that the American people are disgusted with the core policies of both the mainstream Democrats and Republican parties, which help the fatcats while hurting the little guy.
Polls show that Congress is less popular than dog poop, toenail fungus, hemorrhoids, cockroaches, lice, root canals, colonoscopies, traffic jams, used car salesmen, Genghis Khan, Communism, North Korea, BP during the Gulf Oil Spill, Nixon during Watergate or King George during the American Revolution.
60% of Americans want to throw all of the bums in Congress – including their own representatives – out in the next election.
The government as a whole doesn’t fare much better. Gallup reports:
Eighteen percent of Americans are satisfied with the way the nation is being governed, down 14 percentage points from the 32% recorded last month before the partial government shutdown began. This is the lowest government satisfaction rating in Gallup’s history of asking the question dating back to 1971.
A poll by Associated Press and GfK shows that people are disgusted with both parties’ handling of the “government shutdown”:
Americans are finding little they like about President Barack Obama or either political party ….
The AP-GfK poll finds few people approve of the way the president is handling most major issues and most people say he’s not decisive, strong, honest, reasonable or inspiring.
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Large majorities of those surveyed finding little positive to say about Democrats. The negatives are even higher for the Republicans across the board, with 4 out of 5 people describing the GOP as unlikeable and dishonest and not compassionate, refreshing, inspiring or innovative.
And second Gallup poll shows that 60% of Americans think we need a third party:
Amid the government shutdown, 60% of Americans say the Democratic and Republicans parties do such a poor job of representing the American people that a third major party is needed. That is the highest Gallup has measured in the 10-year history of this question.
A new low of 26% believe the two major parties adequately represent Americans.
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Republicans, Democrats Equally Likely to See Need for Third Party
Republicans (52%) and Democrats (49%) are similar in their perceptions that a third party is needed. In fact, this marks the first time that a majority of either party’s supporters have said a third party is needed.
The two-party system has become nothing but a scripted beauty contest between two sides of the same coin.
But isn’t the American system by definition a two-party system … warts and all?
No … in fact, the Founding Fathers tried to warn us about the threat from a two-party system.
BONUS:
U.S. Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Currency Market Manipulation
Military Waste and Fraud Continue In the Middle of the Government Shutdown
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Debbie Wasserman Shultz.....now there's the future.
Debbie Wasserman Shultz and Michelle Bachmann should get together and permanently go back to the Kibbutz to work as its about the only productive thing they've ever done.
DWS = Pamela Geller with a Congressional Seat.
Fuck the American Sheeple. Half voted for the shit we are in since Lincoln........and the other half couldn't muster up enough votes or were too stupid to see what the other half were voting for.
Fuck The People. Fuck Hope !!!!
Take it away George.........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07w9K2XR3f0
He was funny at one time. By the eighties he was a bitter, angry man. No longer funny.
As for his supposed hatred of all politicians-I'm calling bullshit. Just like my post above. He said what he thought was the hip, "fair"(?) thing to say, but show me one quote of his that is anti-statist. Show me one quote that disagrees with the statist(dem?) party line.
Upon quick perusal, I found this page of quotes with a number of anti-free market(conservative) quotes. Sounds like nancy pelosi, or clooney or obama or hillary or alan fuckin alda...
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funnyquotes/a/george-carlin.htm
He was a fraud. Just like so many others...
<ahem>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8_YL3q1--U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
You got me on the second one. Kinda funny too; the plastic bit. Rewatch the first, though. "we knew about right wing censorship(?), but now we see left wing censorship" A false comparison. Don't remember ever seeing right wing(conservative) censorship unless you're talking about telling teachers not to teach 2nd graders about anal sex or whatever. I don't see that type of thing as censorship, really. I've lived political correctness for 20 or 30 years now, however.
Good job, Jumbo.
No shit. They all work for the Banksters. Same team. Same objectives.
And what if every American voted as a write in, for themselves?
We're becoming such a selfish society, it resonates.
And no one would have more than one vote for anything.
last time i was big on "nobody vote", it coulda worked ....
this time i am all about- "show me the cabinet". i kind of nominate someone like paul craig roberts to begin assembling the dream team of outsider patriots to fill an entire cabinet and all presidentially selected staff-
then let them nominate and vote amongst themselves as to who the canidate should be- at that point it wouldn't really matter who'd they had chosen. it could be honey boo-boo , if that is who they thought would actually get them all eletred.
please? c'mon - if we'd've gone with the "nobody vote" thing, we'd be where we are right now anyway- just six years ahead of time.
think- bill black, napolitono, austin fitts, schwartzkof, ron paul, dekoncinich, bill still, chris hedges, stockman, sibel edmonds, ray alexander , hudes, hedges, scahill, greenwald, taibii, dream team type shit-
honey boo boo! honey boo boo!
follow up- i just sent dr.roberts a slightly more litterate version of this appeal for help....
please follow up with a vote of asscension. all you have to say is - "SHOW ME THE CABINET"! ....
he'll know what you are refering to. try it- http://paulcraigroberts.org/contact/
ah. don't bother the poor guy...he was nice enough to get back to me.
he'd already conducted this as a "thought experiment" on his blog.
anyone got another "canidate" to put together the dream team?
remember- said person doesn't have to actually run, just have the clout to get the others on board.
schwartzkof..................
Swartzkof is dead. Although I think he did vote.
sorry. was just tryin' to think of some smedley butler type name to throw in there ...
but i suppose any retired military guy with less than 10 million in his bank account will do.
Actually, I thought after posting you knew of another Swartzkof and tried to delete but system stopped me.
"Stormin' Norman" passed on about a year ago in Tampa. I only knew 'cuz I live in Tampa.
Palm Harbor...
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LOL
Can you imagine the chaos on election night?
Incumbent wins with a couple of votes. Back to you George.
that was the point/aim of the "nobody vote" meme last time (even though you are referring to the everybody vote for someone differrent scenerio) this time it's - SHOW ME THE CABINET!
there's an App for that
made me laugh
+1
You will know how fucked up it is when Democrats run on a platfrom of "protecting your rights".
18% that still support congress should be rounded up and sent to psychiatric wards.
Who will pay for these wards?
There's absolutely nothing wrong with them. You seem to be forgetting how it enriches them at our expense.
The problem is the masses who get screwed over, yet continue to support the beast with their votes.
How many times was Barney Frank re-elected? The scumbag who oversaw the malfeasance at Fannie and Freddie and did nothing, absolutely nothing, to stop it. Same story Christopher Dodd. Voters kept sending them back, over and over and over. Or the fundamentalist lunatic from OK, Senator Inhofe, who thinks global warming is just a giant conspiracy waged by the scientific community? These are the kind of wackjobs we put in Congress and the Sentate... and we are surprised when the whole system goes to shit? How did you think it was going to turn out? Disneyworld and monorails?
The really fucked up part is that only 60% want a third party candidate.
How is being in a 3rd party the automatic solution? If that candidate is in favor of continuing free trade policies and globalization s/he will be just as ineffective and damaging to the country as any two-party system candidate.
The other 40 % are split between the Red and Blue teams. Those are hard core partisan bootlickers with lots to lose.
Well, until we get 60% wanting NOTA for a candidate, the only improvement will be the placing of the deck chairs.
And the band played on...
A third party would require a 50% increase in bribe......I mean, lobby money.
End of Week Review
Today is expiration. What a ramp job yesterday and today.
I wonder how many bears were salivating over their put profits which vaporized into burnt bear?
Usually Thursday and Friday of Expiry are fairly boring with some quick ramping action to scare people out of option positions. This one was not like that!
Then usually after Expiry, Monday and Tuesday show some big moves. Not sure if that will happen here as this has been atypical.
Below are an assortment of charts and indicators, all are proprietary ratios or charting methods.
I went long gold futures based on the Egg Pierce and the Bernoulli 50 support.
Palladium looks like a no brainer long, and it has a great story, plus it has an excellent inverted head and shoulders and we are at the end.
http://oahutrading.blogspot.com/2013/10/end-of-week-review.html
'End of Week Review'
-10 By all means, you are so important you should use the first post to hijack GW's thread. Rude.
Any third party will merely be the next vessel to replace the currently recognized failing one, and thus will on bring about the next chapter of divide and conquer.
In other words, the problem with government IS government, regardless of the flavor of the candidates.
"Meet the new boss.
Same as the old boss."
Correct, NA.
The most recent example being the Tea Party.
What started out as a very legitimate platform against taxes was quickly coopted and corrupted by dark pools of money, money ultimately traced back to far-right individuals and organizations. Soon, it was more about social issues meant to divide and conquer the masses, all financed by the same deep pockets as finances the radical elements of the GOP.
So, maybe the next big deal 3rd way is a Green Party. If so, just sit back and watch as the same things happens, only this time the palyers are the far left dark money pools.
Power is the ultimate goal, and money is the weapon that allows power to be obtained and kept. Very few humans are able to resist the hubris of power, or the corrupting force of money.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Exactly, for however different a third party would have to be, the difference would be fleeting, as the powers that be saw to it that the more things changed, the more they stayed the same.
Not for nothing, in other words, did Albert Jay Nock say, "Sending in good people to reform the State is like sending in virgins to reform the whorehouse."
Thus, the only way to reform the state is to eradicate it. And the only way to eradicate it is to devolve it, which in our case means back to the fifty states, or small federations thereof, followed by further devolution, until the state has finally devolved to the vanishing point.
And if you think that's a pipe dream, think again, as the tide is turning technologically, and the time is not far off when the individual will be able to transact his business freely and of his own accord, the state helpless to do anything about it because (as with Ross Ulbricht's wallet: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/168139-fbi-unable-to-seize-600000-b...) it won't know who's doing what with whom.
Any party that can compete is corrupt as the system it competes in.
Indeed. http://www.amazon.com/Localism-A-Philosophy-Government-ebook/dp/B00B0GAC...
3rd party yes
but Pres and Senate victory will go to the Dems
best that could happen is 3rd party gets balance of power in the House but even that woud only be a Pyrrhic victory as Nancy and Boehner would vote as one
and if that were to happen the Dems and GOP would change House and Senate rules to isolate and exclude a Libertarian party
do not underestimate the power of the media and the intelligence of the majority of Americans where a triple digit IQ is the exception
Funny that you assume Libertarian. I'm thinking Green.
exactly... What would a third party be??? Half the people in this country love govt and its entitlements. They want stuff. Its also cool and fashionable to hate the govt, even if you're in love with all it bestows. Another large portion of america loves liberty(ha!), but wants to keep their social security and want the govt to do whatever it wants to protect them.
I just looked at a High School friend's (almost 30 years ago, now) post on facebook . Tonight she was supporting the trucker for the Constitution rally; this morning she was mad at the republicans for holding up obamacare!!!???
THAT, is the american public.
Must be the ring in the cougars nose making her act up, does it every time.
Ok fine, that was sexist/mysogynistic (any other misused/over used words I missed?) but dammit, someone/something owes her for the pain and she's going to inflict some of her own!!!
"I have a right to fuck any man I choose and have everyone else pay for my pregnancy or lack thereof!"
Now there's a motto any statist prowler can agree with ;-)
Soylent?
Down with party politics! PERIOD!
As long a the checks come out of Washington there will be no change. When the fiat dies then there will be change.