Ron Paul Supporters Magical Disappearing Act!, page 1

This is just more of the same from our government and our electoral process. I am always baffled by people who are so passionate about politics while under the impression that the whole system is fair and gives the citizens a way to control the direction of the country. Anyone with a brain, and who doesn't feed from the main steam news trough, should not have much trouble seeing that things are not right.

How in the world can anyone actually believe that the whole electoral college and delegate system is fair? I mean seriously, any time that votes are cast by proxy there is opportunity for misrepresentation, manipulation, and corruption. Why do we need the electoral college anyway? What happened to the idea that when I cast my vote, it directly affects the outcome of the election?

To make things worse, however, there is the fact that presidents do very little in terms of living up to the promises they make when they are campaigning. Just the other day I heard a piece from McCain's speech at the GOP convention. He was going on and on about creating jobs and drilling for oil and stopping jobs from being outsourced. But come 4 years from now, if he wins, what are the chances that those things will have been accomplished. I'm betting that his list of promises fulfilled will be very short. In other words, we're voting whomever can concoct the best bag of hot air. Yeah, some people look for stuff like stances on abortion or religion, but in the end those things won't matter much because anything candidates promise pre-election are almost always nothing but hogwash meant to get votes.

And lastly there is the matter of how the president is supposed to be a servant of the people. Tell me, does George W. Bush and his administration do anything that the majority of Americans support? His dismal ratings indicate that very few people appreciate what GWB is doing. Isn't that a sign that he is NOT doing his job?

Our election process is junk. Pure junk. Our votes do not count, our elections are vulnerable to manipulation, and our candidates do not represent us as they should. Voters are nothing but statistics that candidates will say anything to in order to have their poll numbers improve.

The worst part is that it seems like there is nothing we can do apart from full fledged revolution of the type spoken of as though they are legendary in nature.

The point I am getting at is that it's these little yet blatant actions, such as what happened with the omission of speaking Ron Paul's name at the convention, that will slowly get the attention of more and more people. Maybe it won't matter. Or maybe as more people observe that the system is clearly unfair, the gears of revolt will begin to turn.

I sure as hell hope things change. I don't know how it'll happen, and I can't think of a way that such a huge change could actually take place in our current government, but I want it so bad! I would love to be able to go to the voting booth and know for sure that when I am watching the election results that the final, deciding vote numbers will include my vote! And that those results, not the decision of some delegate or electoral college representative, will be what decides who is elected. That is what we do not have right now. That is democracy.