The Glade 4.0

Times article regarding a Department of Justice ruling about the attempts of a NC town to eliminate party affiliation for local elections.

OMFG! Even the NAACP is wondering WTF the government is thinking according to that article.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Wow.

So many things wrong in that situation...

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

What the hell? I don't know what to make of this, to be amused, offended, disgusted?

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Further proof of the bloated size and beuaracratic wastes our government is capable of.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Not sure it's really size and waste I'd point to there, so much as stomping on the founding principles.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

It is only with great size and resources at their disposal to waste that they might find the boredom and time to do such stomping.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

We're still trying to get rid of partisan elections in Tucson. We finally got rid of (well, next year's election anyway) city-wide elections for individual wards. This year, we still have a ward-specific primary but city-wide general. Democrats don't want this changed of course and fought it tooth and nail. It took our state government to step in and change that.

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The Dude abides.

Kinda hard to find any positive spin on this one. Unless you are a fanatic Dem in Kingston, I guess.

I think that is because they understand that their power wanes once someone reaches the age of reason. Republicans have that problem too.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

This is Orwellian.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

We can't get rid of parties! If we do that, how on earth will people know for whom to cast their vote?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

God forbid that voters have to educate themselves.

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The Dude abides.

Democrat! is the only way for anyone to know who carries the official black/gay/feminist seal of approval. It's not at all unlike the way Republican! was used to show the official Christian seal of approval during various administrations.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Apparently the rest of us just get the right to vote, but black voters get the right to actually elect the candidate they want. That's right, if you're black you have the right to have your guy win.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Re reading this, this is one of the most horribly racist condescending things not coming out from behind a Klan hood.

Unless I am wrong its essentially stating that Black voters need a D next to a candidates name to know how to vote. How patronizing could you get?

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Actually, I believe the position of the Department of Justice is that without the option to vote a party ballot, white voters who support the liberal parties, such as the Democrats, might be tempted to put aside that left leaning position and instead vote along racial lines and bypass the black candidate on the ballot in favor of the white conservative.

This could quite possibly be the first instance in which the government has achieved complete racial equality, as every identifiable group within this district has been equally insulted by this ruling.