[Dead Corpse]

We vote for Candidate A, who promised to "fix" things. They don't. We vote for Candidate B, who promises to "fix" the things Candidate A failed to do. They don't. So we go searching for Candidate C, who is "unelectable" because of all the Party reptiles who are playing "my Team right or wrong" games.

But it's the voters fault?

So all those elected a$$holes who promise one thing and yet never seem to deliver are not culpable at all? They aren't committing fraud after all?

It isn't the voting that is the problem. It's a lack of a mechanism like the old Greek Ostracism that allows unprincipled, back-stabbing, anti-Freedom, Constitution ignoring sh*tbags in BOTH Parties to continue to safely ignore the electorate.

After all, with no real recourse to removing a bad legislator... what are you going to do? Yell about it online? Try and "vote them out" next time?

Until people are ready to FORCIBLY remove these people, there is very little that will actually change.

[Dahoser]

Yes, it's the voters' fault for not paying attention to what the candidates are doing that they vote for. Take the Cape Cod Orca. He was reelected in 2006 with almost 70% of the vote. How many of those same 70% in Massachusetts are complaining to high heaven about the price of gas? Now, how many of those who are complaining have bothered to pay one bit of attention to Kennedy being a staunch opponent of drilling in ANWR and elsewhere? Here in the People's Republic of New York, the same holds for the 70% who voted for Chuckie Cheese Schumer. I know I have to be hearing Schumer voters muttering when I'm gassing up at the Sunoco in Cohoes. I further wonder how many of the people around me who don't like the smoking ban in bars have any idea that the RAT assemblyman they support voted for the ban. That's what I'm talking about. People voting and voting again for these clymers while complaining about what the clymers are doing.

So yes, to answer your question, I do advocate voting out the bums. What I really advocate, though, is knowing what the bums are doing and how it conflicts with what you want them to do. Broken campaign promises are the not problem, it's the one they keep! The Cape Cod Orca, Chucky Cheese Schumer and the like all promise to block drilling, nuclear, coal. They don't hide it and their voting records aren't hidden. Yet, they get reelected by the people who are unhappy with the results of what they're doing.

I have a lot of contempt for the criminal class, but the voting class deserves its share and maybe more.