Campaign of Fear: US Election Boils Down to 'Lesser of Two Evils'

[sysop]

To win the election, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will have to mobilize as many of their base voters as possible. At this stage in the race, political agendas are no longer as important to the candidates as badmouthing their opponent. The campaign is getting ugly.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-864086.html

I find the minority support for Republicans odd. I was doing a "lit-drop" for the Green Party in a neighborhood with many minorities, and was struck by a Mexican worker's truck that had a big Mitt Romney sign on the back. The white Americans where I live hate Mitt Romney. Nevertheless, I stuck numerous well printed fliers around their mailboxes advertising local green party candidates.

Reading this article, I was wondering what the billboard factor is in a vote. I live in one of the only states that outlaws billboard advertising. You simply don't see a billboard on the highway or in the city here. I know they have them in Florida. I wonder the effect of right wing billboard advertisements.

The state I live in is easily as controlling as Germany, with stores closing early in the evening and zero billboard advertisements.

Caffeine plays a big role in conservative elections. Caffeine causes cortisol to be released into the body, which causes the fight-or-flight reaction, which keeps you awake. Cortisol is released, because caffeine is a poison released by certain plants to kill predators. Republicans rely on American caffeine consumption to keep fear in them. The Republican tactic is always brow-beating, threats, and fear-mongering. Coffee especially is one of their main tools. It would be a real blow to the Republicans if there was an anti-caffeine campaign and Americans lost their sense of emergency.

Caffeine is a drink of the darker races in Asia and Arabia. Caffeine is not a native drink to the white, and tea and coffee do not grow where whites live. Originally white people drank herbal teas such as Catswort, before coffee was introduced by the Turks and the Dutch East India company brought tea from Asia.

I myself grow catswort in my window and only drink herbal teas in celebration of being a peaceful white, before monotheistic religion and caffeine were brought in from asia by crafty Jews who financed the Dutch East India company.

http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/chap8.htm

Jews are the most unpeaceful people and greatest liars ever to walk the earth. Rather than God's chosen race, they are undoubtedly the work of some lesser Demon.

I found something strange: Mitt Romney is a Mexican:

http://www.policymic.com/articles/15...mney-has-roots

Like many right wing Americans such as John McCain, there are ties to Latin American roots. It could be that Republicans are not white, and that minorities like Jews and Mexicans are more conservative and religious, due to having non-white ancestry. The real white Americans in New England for instance are all extremely liberal, whereas the conservatives are near Mexico.

[vinzclortho]

This is better than most European comments on the up coming election. Living here, I can see no fundamental difference between Obama and Romney. Europeans seem to see them as obviously different. In my opinion, Obama represents everything bad about current EU politics, the mania for secrecy, the reliance on experts, contempt for the both electorate and the constitution, and a sort of simplistic utilitarianism that makes it easy to rationalize the most awful policies. Maybe that is why Europeans like him so much, he seems very familiar to them.

Romney has far too many supporters who were also supporters of the spectacularly awful GW Bush for my taste but otherwise he is really just like Obama.

So as my friend r-f will be voting Green, I will be voting Libertarian and count it a victory if neither Obama nor Romney get a majority of the votes cast. Never again will I cast a ballot for the lesser of two evils.

Originally Posted by vinzclortho

This is better than most European comments on the up coming election. Living here, I can see no fundamental difference between Obama and Romney. Europeans seem to see them as obviously different. In my opinion, Obama represents everything bad about current EU politics, the mania for secrecy, the reliance on experts, contempt for the both electorate and the constitution, and a sort of simplistic utilitarianism that makes it easy to rationalize the most awful policies. Maybe that is why Europeans like him so much, he seems very familiar to them.

Romney has far too many supporters who were also supporters of the spectacularly awful GW Bush for my taste but otherwise he is really just like Obama.

So as my friend r-f will be voting Green, I will be voting Libertarian and count it a victory if neither Obama nor Romney get a majority of the votes cast. Never again will I cast a ballot for the lesser of two evils.

I support the Green Party all the way to the ballot. I was standing in front of city hall on a street corner last night with a green candidate's sign voluntarily, without getting paid, as voting was open late. Since the green party runs on clean elections, volunteering for them is one of the only ways they can succeed, as they cant have the financial backing of the major two-parties.

You are wise to not vote the lessor evil. I have done that in the past and it made me feel disgusted. When I voted for John Kerry to oust Bush, and Bush won, and then saw a man get tazered at a Kerry speech merely for asking questions, I voted for the Socialst Party. After I calmed down I took an interest in the Green Party.

I was handing out fliers for the green party today, and I saw a Democrat get a parking ticket. It was some rich woman in a shiny black car. In the car window were Obama/Biden placard. The Democrat yelled at the ticket-cop, called him a motherf##er, then I watched her drive off with her middle finger stuck out the window at the cop, unaware that she was making a farce out of the Democrat Party.

It's this hostility that really frightens me away from the Democrats. If they are slighted, given offense, then they can turn nasty. I had one guy brow-beat me, claiming I was within 150 yards of the door to the voting building, even though I was far enough away. Voting day is hostile.