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None of the Above?

Posted by j_IR1776wg 10 months ago to Ask the Gulch
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Would a None of the Above choice be a blessing or a curse?

If a none of the above vote won a majority of the votes, it would clearly show the People's disgust with whom they are forced to vote for.

But then what would happen? A revolution? A new election?


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  • Posted by term2 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    no wonder the usa government was so insistent to kill off the mafia. It was competition !!!
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  • Posted by 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Infuriating!!! You work for it, you should have total control over 100% of what you earn.

    Al Capone and John Gotti would have loved to write the 16th Amendment "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.".

    The Federal Government became a mobster in 1913 and its only gotten worse since.
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  • Posted by term2 9 months, 2 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    It bothers me now to actually pay any more taxes. Its hard NOT to pay them, as most of them are collected automatically. BUT, I can cut my expenses and standard of living by 10-20% and thereby reduce some of the taxes.
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  • Posted by 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes.Historically government only stops taking after it no longer is a government.

    The people need to Shrug or Revolt.
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  • Posted by 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    How many ways are there to take away "...the ability of the government to take from one and give to another..." ? without bloodshed?
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  • Posted by term2 9 months, 3 weeks ago
    that would be like a tie in sports- you keep on have elections until the people are satisfied.

    If we just took away the ability of the government to take from one and give to another, it would simplify the process of democratic elections. That way, the vote would be for an administrator to run the powers of the government most efficiently. No more lobbyists, since the government people couldn't redistribute citizens' money to the preferred classes
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  • Posted by mccannon01 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I started listening to him in the early '90s. His radio skits and jingles mocking the left had me laughing over and over. I stuck with him from then on for the entertainment and also picked up a lot of knowledge along the way.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    On a side note: I first became aware of Rush during the Clinton era. I never really liked him very much, and when his time was up and Bush was elected, I was SO NAIVE that I told my husband "Well, Rush's days are done. He won't have anything to talk about now." We still laugh about that one.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I believe Rush Limbaugh referred to Senator Reid as the cadaver and the moniker has been applied to other cognitively impaired politicians along the way. I miss Rush, LOL!
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  • Posted by mhubb 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    in 2020 i voted

    that vote was clearly stolen from me (and millions of others)
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  • Posted by mhubb 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    the issue is that now very few understand the founding of this nation.

    too many now vote themselves stuff at the expense of others, 100% unconstitutional, but it seems that ship sailed long ago.

    welfare
    medicare
    medicaid
    minimum wage (that being tied to government worker wages)
    could be a long list
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  • Posted by GrandpaCute 9 months, 3 weeks ago
    I once aspired to be a school teacher. If I had older pupils, I was tempted to try a semester / school year project to get "None of the Above" as a choice for all state elections involving people. If NotA won, then there would be another election scheduled as if there were a runoff and NONE of the original ballot's candidates would be eligible to run.
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  • Posted by 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I, like millions of other citizens are sick and tired of having candidates who do not, or cannot, understand that America was founded to uphold Individual Rights, Limited Government, and Laissez-faire Capitalism!!!!!

    A "none of the above" would be the last peaceful attempt to force the fools running the Federal Government to come to their senses before the bloodshed of a second bloody Revolution becomes necessary to bring them to their senses!!!
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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 9 months, 3 weeks ago
    "None of the above" is the same as not voting.
    If you don't vote, you have no say (one way or the other) in the outcome.

    Apathy has it's cost.
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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    There is only one dog that is up for the fight, that thinks of his country before himself.
    Yes, Trump isn't perfect, but his four years in office have proven one thing clearly, very clearly, he's the best man in the oval office in the 50 years I've been voting.
    That's really all that should matter to us at this late hour.
    If you have a better choice, man or woman, put their name forth.
    But understand, the hour is getting late to field a new horse in this race.
    The DemonRats have bet all their chips on a broken back mule. Great.
    And to think, all their alternatives poll even worse!
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  • Posted by $ splumb 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I'll take Trump, warts and all, except for one thing.
    He trusts all the wrong people.
    Just look at how many people he trusted and put in his cabinet, only for them to turn around and stab him in the back.
    I hope he's learned to be more discerning.
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  • Posted by mhubb 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    i agree, not a good place for us

    but i cheated, i read the end of the Bible

    if and when something bad happens, the parasite among us are screwed

    those that saw problems coming and prepared will weather the storm
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    My mother got stark raving with Alzheimer's until a stroke took her out of her misery.
    Then my father became so senile he could not recognize me his eldest along with the rest of my brothers. He died one day before his 99th birthday.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Bozo Biden has Jill to talk to him like a child.
    I'm divorced. Listening to what I had to turned very bad. Now I don't have to.
    Why am I thinking of that "Born Free" song?
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm only 57, and even I have occasional moments when I struggle to remember something for a second or two. Both my dad and grandfather died after four years of Alzheimer's in their eighties. This is part of why my research switched in the direction that it did.
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