Failing Without Honor

[babylonsister]

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Failing Without Honor
October 2, 2012
by James Schlarmann


Sometimes people who died centuries before we were born get it so incredibly right.

“I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.” -Sophocles

The Republicans are failing without honor.

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Ultimately, the right to vote is the most important right that was given to us by the men who founded this nation. Our vote is our voice in this system of ours. I’m not cynical, and I still believe in our system. No, the Electoral College does not negate the validity of our votes. If you’re a Red voter in a Blue state, sure it’s tough to feel like your vote counts in the Presidential election, but it does. The irony is that feeling like your vote doesn’t count and therefore not casting one is the only way to make sure your voice isn’t heard. The efforts by the GOP to rob legitimate voters of their chance to have their voice heard didn’t just impact the Presidential race either; it’d impact the state level races too.

It’s easy to kill unions, rape the environment and give unfair tax incentives to the rich and corporations in your state if you rig the voting process to disqualify a lot of the people who would oppose all those things.

The Republicans are floundering. In this election they’ve tried spending their way into the White House and they’ve tried cheating their way into the White House. What does it say about a political ideology if you have to flood the airwaves with lies and disenfranchise millions of people to win? A couple of weeks ago I wrote that the Republican Party was on the brink of utter collapse, and that within five years the party as we know it will die, giving rise to potentially two new parties made up the Tea Party faction and the Old Guard Republicans. In the piece I also said that the argument is almost moot because what we’re seeing from the GOP now are not the actions of the party of Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt. These are the actions of a scared and desperate political movement that has been so exclusionary as to who was welcome within their ranks that they’re now forced to try to bar all those people they alienated from the polling places to even have a shot to win.

[monmouth]

1. I find the modern-day GOP to be rather immature. Like children who have usually always gotten their

way. Much like Mitt Romney. As children they found their tantrums brought results and they've carried this behavior on into adulthood."I want it and I want it now" is the cry from those who feel entitled. As adults they have no second thoughts regarding cheating. It has always worked before, why don't people understand that?

[porphyrian]

2. . n/t