Random thoughts

I sure hope they regret it. I keep wondering why they backed him in the first place.

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shadowycat.livejournal.com

They didn't want the Democrat to run unopposed.

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amokk

It says they tried to run a last-minute candidate at the convention but they didn't get enough votes for the other guy.

So they do regret it.

Next cycle if this is the situation again, I'm so going to run as a Republican.

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What the fuck is the matter with his brains?

If he had properly followed his own thinking, he should not have been born! Idiot!

How the heck can he be running? How could someone vote for a guy like that? Makes me even more sure that American politics is mad!

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For some reason, people like that never apply their views to their own person.
Like many Nazi leaders were not tall, blond and blue-eyed at all, and I think Goebbels was part Jewish, but it didn't stop them from saying how the good people look like and that the Jews are evil.

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amokk

You mean like Hitler with black hair? His grandmother was Jewish, and since that's a matrilineal thing...

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Yeah, I know! Hitler himself was "dark" and short...

It's also rather weird, 'cause Jews are not a race, it's a religious group. Anyone can be a jew, even an Aryan, but that just explains how sick Hitlers theories were...

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Well, I think if you convert to Judaism, you don't really become a Jew. You're still somewhat different. But I can't really tell you exactly.

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amokk

Anyone can run, that's the beauty and horror of American politics. Anyone can think whatever they want, as well.

However, I honestly don't see how he connects his son's suicide with promoting Eugenics as a solution. Wouldn't the fact he was weak and commited suicide mean he wasn't fit? I just don't see the logic.

People will vote for the same reason he didn't win the last time: they just see that little R and don't want to vote for a Democrat. Like the article said, he slid in under radar and no one knew his politics really, they just saw that R.

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I can see that it can be good that everybody can run (essentially, they can in Germany, they just need a certain number of support signatures beforehand). What I don't understand is that the party allows him to use their name.

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amokk

Not much they can really do about it. He could have run as a Libertarian, a Green, or whatever other party name he wanted to make up. There's no rules or laws saying you can only run for the party you're a part of, nor that the party has any real say in the matter.

What are they going to do, anyway? How do you say someone isn't really a member of X political party? People don't have to pay dues to say they're a Republican or Democrat or whatever.

Germany has stricter laws about politics. I'm sure the Americans wrote those in as they were rebuilding it after we broke it. ;)

American politics is much more Wild West than any other country, I think.

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American politics is much more Wild West than any other country, I think.

*nods* The american election makes Norway's look like a friendly competition between kids... :p

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Is there an election going on in Norway right now??

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It's in part because the parties on a national scale are not all powerfull. Each state has its own parties because the national candidate needs to get on the ballet of each state. Not to mention that the individual states have to elect their representitives to the House and to the Senete. There is also lots of political apathy. As a result someone who joins one of the local or state level parties can, if they have enough backers get themselves to be the candidate if the timing is right.

In my opinion much of the problems in the political system, (electoral college is a good example) are issues regarding the balance of states rights and federal power.

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I guess it's okay with the thinking part of it, some weird theories (not this one) might even seem okay in theory, but still, if you're actually trying to get you sick therories into the society... that's just madness!

Yeah, that's another problem with the politics in the USA, - only two parties. If you hate the democrats enough, you'll vote for the republicans just to stop the others from winning...

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I'm so proud to live in the USA right now :-/ Part of me things that during our Civil War, we in the north should have just let the southern states leave the union.

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I meant to say "thinks" not "things." I have no idea why I always mistype thinks as things.

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I do the same thing, so don't worry.
But there are enough morons in the Union, too. It's not all Confederates.

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And I think that a good percentage of the morons come to my library. :-)

Actually, a part of my family came over here in 1644 from Holland, I know for fact that one or two, of my really distant ancestors had some slaves and I'm sure they played part in oppressing the Native Americans (as I suppose did everyone back then) so I really shouldn't make fun of the South.

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Ah, the difficult question of whether or not we are allowed to say something about things we perceive as wrong today, if our ancestors did the same, or worse things. Personally, if in the South somebody like this person can run for an office, there is no reason not to make fun of the south. It is of course a generalization, but we know it is.

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amokk

Nah, then I would have had to have a passport and get new citizenship when I moved down here. ;)

It's not like the guy has a real chance, he's running against the incumbent, who the last cycle had no opposition at all until this guy ran as Independant. The only reason he will get more votes is people who just automatically vote Republican when they're unsure of a race.

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