Dunno. Hard to comprehend that mindset. Just look at the last 8 years and who she worked for after putting aside her (and Bill's) personal hatred of the president ONLY for her own benefit -- to add SecState to her resume -- in order to move a step closer to where we area now and the Clintons' goals of the last 4-5 decades.

False. If we were a pure democracy, then yeah it would be throwing away your vote to vote third party. Unless you live in a hotly contested swing state, your vote will either be for the majority party (Republicans in AL), minority party, or third party protest vote. Either way you vote, unless you are in a swing state, it really doesn't matter. The winner is known way ahead of time and said winner is already counting the delegates without any thought of what they need to do to get you to the polls. Notice how many candidates will come to AL during the general election...

Third party votes are protest votes in states that the outcome is pre-determined by demographics. In swing states, a vote third party is more like abstaining from voting for one of two likely candidates to win. It is still not a vote for another person. Third parties pull from both sides. Still, if you vote for Hillary, that is the only way she gets a vote. Not if you don't vote for Trump or Hillary.

I can't believe all the worry warts out here. Come on guys quit with all the sky's falling rhetoric.

I'm not "worrying" just concerned for the future. If nothing mattered we could simply stand by and let whoever get elected and whatever small special interest group decide the path for our country...

My point with the original post and the link to the article was that it will be interesting to see how this plays out int he context of history.

Many republics throughout history have devolved into dictatorships and ruin...

Read the following quote and decide which stage we are in:

“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by dictatorship.

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1) From bondage to spiritual faith;

2) From spiritual faith to great courage;

3) From courage to liberty;

4) From liberty to abundance;

5) From abundance to complacency;

6) From complacency to apathy;

7) From apathy to dependence;

8) From dependence back to bondage ...”

Alexander Tyler, 1787

I feel the same way about the "gheys in Target!" reactions. It's not like there's a line of creepy man-women outside their bathrooms trying to get in so they can kidnap little girls or boys.

But, y'know, gotta fall with the sky when the sky is falling.

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That's kind of what I was thinking...

Simple mathematics. Slightly more than half do not pay into the system.

Most of those depend on money they get because they did not "win life's lottery".

Most of those do not realize that government has no money (our government anyway) other than that confiscated at the point of a gun. Without the simplest of knowledge, bondage is preordained.

Apathy came and went while I was still pretty much a youngster.

where u see clowns. the circus is coming

Because, the next president could possibly nominate 3 Supreme Court Justices. even one of those nominations could turn the course of this nations future. If a Democrat or liberal judge is nominated we will loose any hope of any SCOTUS decision going the way of conservative rulings. thus we as conservatives will loose two of the checks and balances(Judicial/executive) that have put been into place and the forced liberal agenda will be our future. That is why I am Worried!