you’re absolutely right that voting the party line is causing people in this country a lot of problems.

I’d take it a step further.  The governmet, as it’s structured today, is a criminal organization.  It steals, it kills, it threatens.

It’s my position that voting, in and of itself, is enabling this system and giving it further credibility.  that’s what I think needs to stop.

But what we the people of the United States are doing is enabling the crooks by voting Party line.  Therefore there will be no penalty for the crimes and they will keep on getting elected because we vote party line, and since there are no penalties they will keep on giving us the Al Capone treatment, because we don’t try to stop them.

My remedy is to start punishing.  It would be very hard to start with Bush, Clinton, etc.  But it could not be easier to shun one of the parties and ignore them until they are no longer relevant.

I sincerely think doing this would put fair warning to the other Political entities that we are ready to do the same to them if they don’t straighten up and at the same time we need to be pushing those surviving parties to bring an investigation forward to find if criminal activities can be proved.

Of course we could continue to do nothing and we will get the same result we have been getting.  And we can keep on griping and doing nothing.

Nothing wrong with your analogy.  We are being squeezed by thugs.  I think we can do something about it.

I don’t vote for any of these people in office, but yet, they’re still my parents, and I’m somehow still responsible for their actions?  Nonsense.

It’s much better to compare it to the mafia.

Think of this as an alternate analogy.

Al Capone and his thugs would go around Chicago and tell people and businesses there to give him a portion of their incomes, or, his men would take it from them, beat them or possibly kill them.

Then he’d use that money to buy some guns and kill a few other people.  Or, he’d use that money to fund a smaller mafia group in another city, so they’d be loyal to his operation.

Were the people he stole from somehow responsible for his actions because they valued their lives?

Of course there is.   Punish the criminals and the horse they rode in on.  Just what is it that enables the criminals to continue?

Isn’t it We The People?  When we vote for a known shyster because he is a member of our party don’t we aid and abet the crime?  Could you vote against the crook?  Of course you can.

Then why in the world don’t you do it?

Get the Party First.  That will stir a change that will get all the Criminals attention, including the Party they rode in on.

Never again vote for a Republican Candidate!  Try it.  You’ll See.

Do we control it like when 95% of people called in to tell them not to bailout the financial industry and they still did it?  Do we control it like voting democrats in to end the war in 2006, and it still is going on?

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t send the requests and make the calls, but I think it’s important to note that although we may tell them what we want them to do, in reality, we’re just begging.  Enough angry beggers and the king might act differently, but it’s still begging.