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2016: One Last Chance for Actual Democracy?

Message Rafe Pilgrim
Other than perhaps by dint of gross stupidity or masochism, it is difficult to comprehend why and how "the great American electorate" votes for such ilk as we've witnessed for the past thirty years.  One more consecutive mal-election may impel the choice for revolution (one such a "treason" already highly honored and deeply revered in our history) which does not require majority support, merely a small minority intent upon urgent correction the indentured system does not offer, a correction that could in fact be realized peacefully and productively if Dimocrats could desist from parading strawmen/fems for Greed Interests upon the People's stage.  "...and Lo! the bird is on the Wing" with Lady Hillary Macbeth ads already appearing three full years in advance of "the people's choice."
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While on the subject, it's high time also to trash the "lesser-evil" copout.  (Stalin better than Hitler!  Oh no!  Wait!  Wait!)  The arena of the ultimate imbeciles!
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Of course the Repukians are a wretched choice, but there is some merit in the position that they are more straightforward, however treacherous in their advocacy.  In any event, the Clinton and Obama misrepresentations should finally have discredited the "lesser-evil" rationale for the charade of any scintilla of intelligence or morality it ever may have enjoyed.
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One wants desperately to believe there is still a (just one more?) chance in 2016 for recovery of a republic that actually represents the best interests of the People.  That chance may be wasted, perhaps destroyed if we revert to family hierarchy:  Bush, then Bush...Clinton, then Clinton.  Shades of the Divine Right of Kings!  And all wretched by dint of performance and blatantly excessive ambition.
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It is indeed up to us -- those to be governed -- to summon the determination to examine the actual qualifications, the true record, the character and the credibility of those who propose to lead us.  The guide of partisanship having been discredited by thirty years of mal-leadership, we must reject further such misdirection by either Republican or Democrat persuasion, most especially such nebulous mantra bullpucky as "Hope and Change," and further to take a hard view at a candidate's actual performance record, such as a Secretary of State (of all positions!) leaving a trail of slaughter in the Middle East in the wake of her tenure.
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Yes, 2016 may be our last chance for decent governance by the election route.  We must not squander it to the wretched partisanship and lesser-evilism we have largely unconsciously allowed imposed upon us for the past thirty years.

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