I believe In The People.....politicians are just people....if they don't represent your views and values, then vote them out (more importantly don't vote them in in the first place). We have more similarities than differences, so don't let THEM divide us with gimmicks and slogans!
When did someone show up to find out they had already voted? If that really happened was the person who voted first penalized? Was the ballot pulled? (They assign ballot numbers to voters when they check in). We definitely need secure elections and there are a lot of safeguards in place to assure that. If you don’t believe it then I encourage you to work an election and see first hand all the security in place. The one thing I do agree with is that we need paper ballots so they can be double checked if anyone questions the tabulator machine
It was my family. It was in another state. The notification occurred when my family members showed up at the polls. About SD — Thank you for working the polls. I have worked elections here for many years. It is a great experience. While there are issues here in SD, the non-partisan election group and legislature has been doing a good job of getting necessary things addressed.
I distinguish between real citizen concern and politically manufactured outrage.
There's a lot outrage manufactured by the elites, various political groups and some foreign countries to divide people. They try to gin up outrage to test out which political issues move certain people into one camp or another. Then the money boys take over with endless dollar begging mailings or digital donation drives. This has been the case with the immigration issue for decades. More recently we've seen the manufactured outrage over critical race theory and DEI, which were concocted by national groups and marketed to local people to make it look like an uprising. Of course, the church ladies can always be counted on to generate a lot of misdirected outrage on certain issues that deal with controlling other people's morality or bodies, or reading materials. Unfortunately, elected leaders often see quite a lot of this kind of fake "revolt" that they have difficulty responding when real issues pop up.
Real concern can be distringuished pretty easily. Anything dealing specifically in South Dakota regarding taxess, spending, land use, water quantity or water quality, eminent domain, education issues would be less likely to be ginned up by outside interests. I'm sure their are other local issues that would generate citizen concern.
Here's the problem: if you are complaining about everything you get labelled a crank very quickly.
Michael, I don’t know what district you’re in, but I hope you and others who don’t want your district, and by the consequences, your town, county, or state falling to this overtake, are out door knocking for candidates.
No. The power structure is pretty much the same as has always been---arrogant, lying, and cheating bastards. But they have some good qualities, too, which explains how they keep hanging on. You can beat them from time to time on some issues when they get too far over their skis, but people have to learn how to be effective.
Truth will win out! Here's a case example in Utah where the CEO foreign propagandist of hyperscale data ceter accused two caring, intelligent Utah women of being "Chinese proxies" - he's lying!
I believe In The People.....politicians are just people....if they don't represent your views and values, then vote them out (more importantly don't vote them in in the first place). We have more similarities than differences, so don't let THEM divide us with gimmicks and slogans!
Excellent point about division and similarities.
When did someone show up to find out they had already voted? If that really happened was the person who voted first penalized? Was the ballot pulled? (They assign ballot numbers to voters when they check in). We definitely need secure elections and there are a lot of safeguards in place to assure that. If you don’t believe it then I encourage you to work an election and see first hand all the security in place. The one thing I do agree with is that we need paper ballots so they can be double checked if anyone questions the tabulator machine
It was my family. It was in another state. The notification occurred when my family members showed up at the polls. About SD — Thank you for working the polls. I have worked elections here for many years. It is a great experience. While there are issues here in SD, the non-partisan election group and legislature has been doing a good job of getting necessary things addressed.
I distinguish between real citizen concern and politically manufactured outrage.
There's a lot outrage manufactured by the elites, various political groups and some foreign countries to divide people. They try to gin up outrage to test out which political issues move certain people into one camp or another. Then the money boys take over with endless dollar begging mailings or digital donation drives. This has been the case with the immigration issue for decades. More recently we've seen the manufactured outrage over critical race theory and DEI, which were concocted by national groups and marketed to local people to make it look like an uprising. Of course, the church ladies can always be counted on to generate a lot of misdirected outrage on certain issues that deal with controlling other people's morality or bodies, or reading materials. Unfortunately, elected leaders often see quite a lot of this kind of fake "revolt" that they have difficulty responding when real issues pop up.
Real concern can be distringuished pretty easily. Anything dealing specifically in South Dakota regarding taxess, spending, land use, water quantity or water quality, eminent domain, education issues would be less likely to be ginned up by outside interests. I'm sure their are other local issues that would generate citizen concern.
Here's the problem: if you are complaining about everything you get labelled a crank very quickly.
We'll see what happens in the primaries. In my district, the money is clearly behind the "Corporate Republicans."
Does money win an election?
I hope not, and there are plenty of examples where it hasn't, including in the recent Louisiana Senate primary.
But clearly, the establishment is pushing hard to get its favored candidates elected.
Nothing in politics could make me happier than to see the non-establishment candidates win.
Michael, I don’t know what district you’re in, but I hope you and others who don’t want your district, and by the consequences, your town, county, or state falling to this overtake, are out door knocking for candidates.
I think we will!
You ask: "Are they changing the power structure?"
No. The power structure is pretty much the same as has always been---arrogant, lying, and cheating bastards. But they have some good qualities, too, which explains how they keep hanging on. You can beat them from time to time on some issues when they get too far over their skis, but people have to learn how to be effective.
Truth will win out! Here's a case example in Utah where the CEO foreign propagandist of hyperscale data ceter accused two caring, intelligent Utah women of being "Chinese proxies" - he's lying!
https://ksltv.com/consumer/utahn-responds-to-chinese-proxy-label-by-data-center-investor/909411/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAR2wV1jbGNrBHbA9GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHil1jat8gfYmTAEiPnuJvpWTdBTnA9bM7KwlzXbfW050l0wCQK5VeAhzvUR7_aem_pUrR_I31uk7X25ld85qdgQ