The Party is Always Right

How typically Republican. Unfortunately, the Democrats are themselves not immune to the loyalty oath urge. This from Florida.

This two-party thing we've got going has gone beyond circus to simply illusion. There are not two parties anymore and there haven't been for some time, although the functionaries are desperately trying to maintain the fiction with loyalty oaths and other nonsense. What we have in the Democrats and Republicans are two factions of one party and this party has one goal: corporate domination. The disagreement between the factions lies in how best to make this happen and that is what elections are about.​

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/...ill-require-loyalty-oath-in-presi-ar-1573870/​

http://myfloridalegal.com/ago.nsf/Opinions/F0CE6E2DDB7809CD85256584006261EB

 

If I was handed something like that, I'd draw a fist with it's middle-finger raised on it, hand it in, and if they gave me any reason to I'd flip 'em off... maybe even a double if they pissed me off enough. But then again, I don't vote in Primaries lol

 

This would be my reaction too. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but I think it shows a growing fear in both factions that people are thinking more and more about leaving the reservation.

 

*meh* I'd demand my right to vote. As a tax-paying citizen no party has a right to withhold that right. I'd sue them and you'd all be living under the reign of Jo the First--accompanied by her evil minion, Christmas Bayou the Unforgiving (points at "sweet" little dog at the left).

 

Actually the right of parties to behave like this has been upheld in court. If you're a registered party member who won't pledge apparently the apparatchiks can tell you to take a hike.
I'm not quite sure what it would be like living as a subject of Queen Jo, but if that's your enforcer I think it would be probably quite tolerable

 

You would think so, judging by my avatar . . . but meet . . .

Christmas Bayou the Enforcer!​

 

The rat.

 

I've never registered myself to a political party.
Anyone that does is an idiot in my opinion.
It just shows me you can't or won't even attempt to think for yourself.

 

Or it shows that you want to have some effect by being able to vote in a primary. I'm sorry that you can't help but be judgmental--maybe learning how to fix that can be one of your New Year's resolutions.

 

"you can't help but be judgmental"? Isn't that a judgement? It's the kettle thing again. I know, I know... "Why do you have to say mean things to me!" ...Well, why do you call people stuff when you're just as guilty of the crime? It's hypocritical.

 

IQless, bless your heart.

 

I was registered as a Republican for a while. It was fascinating all the fake surveys and alarmist political crap they sent me in the hope of getting into my wallet. I finally sent them a dollar and then the begging really kicked in. And I got an "autographed" glossy of GB for being such a loyal supporter. What a bunch of maroons. I suppose the Dems do the same thing though.

 

I almost fell back in my chair when this popped up. Your majesty.

 

Yyyyyyyyep!

 

I studied Washington's views of political parites in years past and posted below to summarize what I remember about the First President's views regarding political parties.

Political parties

Washington continues to advance his idea of the dangers of sectionalism and expands his warning to include the dangers of political parties to the government and country as a whole. His warnings took on added significance with the recent creation of the Democratic-Republican Party by Jefferson, to oppose Hamilton's Federalist Party, which had been created a year earlier in 1791, which in many ways promoted the interest of certain regions and groups of Americans over others

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington's_Farewell_Address

 

I vote in primaries without having to register to a parry every time. That's how it works here. I can declare myself an R or D. Therefore why would I register with a party? It's idiotic.

I like you HM but telling me I'm judgmental is an insult. To me folks that register to a party are beyond judgmental.
Maybe learning how to fix that can be one of your New Year's resolutions?

 

Obviously you don't have to register to a party every time in order to vote in a primary(at least in any of the areas in which I've lived). Typically, if you are registered to a party in a particular area, then you are registered in that party as long as you are an active voter (you may be dropped from the rolls if you fail to vote in a certain number of elections, at least in some areas I'm familiar with) or until you declare a party change. If you don't have to register, then more power to you, but that's not how it works everywhere.

I'm sorry if I sounded judgmental to you, but you called me and everyone who registers with a party "idiotic." If you don't expect someone to respond to that judgmental and insulting statement, then I'm not sure what to say. Just adding the words, "in my opinion" does not inoculate you against a response.

 

Being from the South, I know exactly what this means....and I concur!

 

I have to ask this but why register with any party at all? if you happen to agree with a candidate then vote for him/her regardless of party affiliation I am at heart a conservative but have voted Con/Lib/Lab depandant on the candidate were I was registerd to vote at any given time
For me it is who I think will do the best job for the people who live in the area that I do, if they fail then they dont get my vote next time round and now we too have been given the right of recall if a MP fails to live up to there promises to a constituancy

 

I register with a party to vote in the primaries. I vote my conscience, regardless of party affiliation, in any other election. If I can't bring myself to vote for the candidate from the opposing/third party, then I don't vote for any candidate in that position at all.