Heather’s Comments (group member since Sep 08, 2010)

Heather’s comments from the Conservatives and Libertarians in Redmond group.

I've always been politically active. I know who the candidates are, what they say, what they've done....I even have good instincts for sincerity and feel certain that some very honest-hearted people have made it into the big time political arena.

But cycle after cycle, candidates continue to under-deliver on their promises. They tax when they say they won't. They bow to to special interests when they say they don't.

I felt as if they personally let me down and that next cycle I'd just have to be more careful about the person who would earn my vote....but now I'm realizing the problem isn't the players. It's the game.

Many a bright-eyed, fix the system type, young politician has become every bit the wheelin dealin, filibustin, sell out that dominates the congresses of each U.S. State. Is it their inherent weakness of character?....their own underestimated resolve? Maybe somewhat, but theproblem is larger than any one person.

Somehow holes in the constitution...factors the founding fathers would have found confounding, allowed money to be the strongest governing force. Well meaning politicians are forced to make concessions to find the funds that could keep them in power long enough to actually do something good. If they can find the campaign money to get re-elected after 2 years they might have gotten to know the right folks by then to scratch their back.

The truly honest in politics....the one's who can't stand the fact that at best, they'll be the better of two evils, will get chewed up before they get very far, and we'll be left voting for bad and worse.

Since this system is the one generating our supposed choice of representation, does voting really matter? Would it be better to stop pretending we live in a free America? If we saw ourselves living in a corporate/union oligopoly, might we then be motivated to demand our true freedom?


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I used to be a resident of Redmond until I turned 17. I lived in Grousemont, English Hill, and later, Woodinville heights. I'm also an emerging libertarian. If any of you are familiar with the last name Duffin that's us. Anyway, my dad has just published a political thriller that is quite relevant to our countries current state of affairs and presents some intriguing libertarianish solutions. I think you'll love it and it's written by one of your own.