{"id":32471,"date":"2016-02-27T15:48:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32471"},"modified":"2016-02-27T18:29:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T22:29:24","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-your-vote-doesnt-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32471","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell: Your Vote Doesn&#8217;t Count!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Windsor, CA<br \/>\nFebruary 27, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Mitch McConnell for reminding everyone that<br \/>\ntheir votes don&#8217;t count!<\/p>\n<p>Like George Carlin said years ago, if voting mattered,<br \/>\n&#8220;they&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t let you do it.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I were as funny as the late, great comedian.<br \/>\nBut there is nothing humorous about this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/02\/mitch-mcconnell-republicans-will-drop-trump-like-a-hot-rock-if-he-wins-the-nomination\/\">http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/02\/mitch-mcconnell-republicans-will-drop-trump-like-a-hot-rock-if-he-wins-the-nomination\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McConnell is announcing to the entire world that he<br \/>\nis willing to subvert the democratic process and reject<br \/>\nthe nomination of Donald Trump should the flamboyant<br \/>\nNew York realtor capture enough delegates to earn<br \/>\nthat position.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the Senate Majority leader is confirming\u00a0everything that is true about how citizens feel about the\u00a0RINOs and DINOs in Washington whom they have come\u00a0to distrust so deeply.<\/p>\n<p>The very reason Trump as well as his potential Democratic\u00a0rival is so popular is that they represent the rejection by the\u00a0electorate of the established leadership of both major parties.<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who have long promoted the viability and<br \/>\npropriety of a new political party, this a wonderful moment<br \/>\nsince both the existing parties are close to self-destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone witnessing the recent circus of Republican<br \/>\nhopefuls supposedly debating the issues of the day<br \/>\nwere privy to the equivalent of a food fight by those<br \/>\nseeking to be entrusted with the nuclear football.<\/p>\n<p>And with coin flips and super delegates posing a<br \/>\nthreat to the legitimacy of the Democratic primary fight,<br \/>\nthey, too, are seeing the revolt against the establishment<br \/>\nat risk of being thwarted by powerful insiders.<\/p>\n<p>The present situation constitutes the continuation of<br \/>\nthe long simmering rebellion first seen in 1992 with<br \/>\nthe candidacy of Ross Perot who garnered an amazing<br \/>\n20% of the vote despite entering the race only 9 months<br \/>\nprior to election day and after having mysteriously dropped<br \/>\nout for 3 months before returning for the debates with<br \/>\nClinton and Daddy Bush. Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>Then we saw the Ron Paul Liberty Movement that was<br \/>\nstymied by establishment party rules when the Texas<br \/>\nCongressman chose to run as a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>What we have now are two third parties vying to capture<br \/>\nthe existing parties because it is so convoluted to begin<br \/>\na new one. Trump is not a Republican: he is essentially<br \/>\na Populist\/Libertarian. And Bernie Sanders is a Socialist,<br \/>\nnot a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>So the &#8220;Occupy Wall Street&#8221; Socialists are squaring off<br \/>\nagainst &#8220;The Tea Party Populists under cover of the<br \/>\ntraditional party structures. Interesting but very divisive!<\/p>\n<p>What we need today is a new party that unites these two<br \/>\nanti-establishment groups based on a shared, limited<br \/>\nagenda such as the proposed American Peace Party.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32281<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nAn excellent example of what APP would prevent is the wasteful<br \/>\nexpenditure of a TRILLION DOLLARS of our precious tax money<br \/>\non new nukes. That is an issue that could unite millions on the<br \/>\nleft and right.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/02\/23\/obamas-new-rationale-for-1-trillion-nuclear-program-augurs-a-new-arms-race-with-russia\/\">http:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/02\/23\/obamas-new-rationale-for-1-trillion-nuclear-program-augurs-a-new-arms-race-with-russia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, once again, a big thank you to Mitch McConnell for<br \/>\ngraphically demonstrating the bankruptcy of our current<br \/>\nsystem and the urgent need for a replacement such as<br \/>\nThe American Peace Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32264\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32264<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-republican-party.html?_r=0\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-republican-party.html?_r=0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31282\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31282<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32168\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32168<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/breaking-insider-leaks-koch-bros-rubio-plan-to-stop-trump\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/breaking-insider-leaks-koch-bros-rubio-plan-to-stop-trump\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=122816\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=122816<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}