Or maybe better titled, why I am no longer a straight party line v**er. Those days are long gone. Both parties seek to pick the extreme oposite view as a way to appease the radical left or right minority instead of finding middle ground that is ultimately based on common sense. I too did not believe the rhetoric of the war mongering republicans at the time just as I don't believe the fiscal spinnings of "there's no spending problem" of the liberals today.
Elected officials are more and more trying to appease the loud minority while ignoring the vast majority in hopes of separating themselves in the pack of challengers to their precious senate or house seat. Maybe if those seats were not so lucrative, (volunteer, minimum reimbursements), people who really wanted change would be the ones to fill those seats.
This is why we need to change the primary system, to one:
That has all v**ers v**e in one primary, and the two winners, even if both from the same party run against each other.
Crossing primary party lines has already been tried and was a dismal failure, because partisans organize primary v**es for the least qualified opponent. Not that there are many Republicans or pseudo-Demorcrats who are qualified.
I think it's a new law in California
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