That 99.5% of the voters reject their ideology is no indictment against the enfranchisement of the public, but against their ideology. Anyone who claims it's too late to work from within the system has no business calling themselves conservatives, period. And I would like to know what business anyone has at FreeRepublic who believes that voting is passe. There are militia nutcase websites they could go haunt instead.
That 99.5% of the voters reject their ideology is no indictment against the enfranchisement of the public, but against their ideology. Anyone who claims it's too late to work from within the system has no business calling themselves conservatives, period. And I would like to know what business anyone has at FreeRepublic who believes that voting is passe. There are militia nutcase websites they could go haunt instead. Well, I didn't know that Clair Wolfe was on FreeRepublic. Take the argument up with her. Did I say that I agreed with her or was I instead correcting someone who misrepresented her point of view?
If I thought voting was passe, I wouldn't be running for Republican Party Precinct Committeeman nor working on a campaign for a Republican running for Congress. Instead, I would be heading for the hills with provisions and ammunition and logging in to the "militia nutcase" websites you speak of.
That doesn't mean, however, that Clair Wolfe has no valid points. Heck, she may be 100% right and you and I just haven't fully realized it yet. As for me, I will just keep working within the system, however futile it might actually be, because I'm not prepared to accept the alternative.