How the System Works

I just have to tell you - I am continually underwhelmed, in this particular election, with how many people are trying to "rise up" without knowing how things work. How can you accomplish anything if you don't even know how the system works?

And the reason many people don't know how the system works is because they have NEVER EDUCATED THEMSELVES on it before now. Yet they see stuff and they're just outraged again and again. 

I was done being outraged when the Supreme Court gave Bush the presidency over Gore. DONE. Nothing surprises me now. And it is with that albeit jaded clarity that I am looking at this entire Presidential situation. 

I just have one thing to say to people who are continually outraged by the system - it's your fault. 

It is ALL YOUR FAULT if you only just now decided to participate in the system. It is ALL YOUR FAULT if you only now decide you want to help do stuff to encourage change. WHERE WERE YOU when the Senate and House were overrun by Republicans in 2014, 2012, 2010? Where were you then? 

Don't come around on presidential years not knowing how stuff works and shouting about "listening to the people" if you did not vote in those past 3 years. (If you were too young to vote then that's one thing, but most people will have been able to vote at least once before now - but did they? Usually that answer is no.)

I'm disgusted with the system, but I have at least been standing up for YEARS, doing what I can, casting my vote, trying to make it count. 

I completely applaud those who attempt to educate and inform people. Not enough people take that responsibility onto themselves. But you have to also level with every single one of them that this is how things are, and if they're just showing up now, they helped keep alive the crappy system we have currently. If you don't participate when you can, you don't get a say, period, and you certainly don't get a say when you find out how stuff works and go "that's bullshit". Yeah we already know that. You're new here. Those are the rules. 

Well guess what? You have to work within the system in order to change the system. It's the paradox of politics. Or you could just stage a coup, but not even the Tea Party has been that radical. 

If you don't like how your delegates or superdelegates work, then VOTE THEM OUT. Simple as that. Participate. But you're not going to petition superdelegates into changing their minds. If you were a superdelegate, I'm sure you would vote what you feel is the best for the country. 

Yes, maybe the "people" are for Sanders in NH, but crowds are wrong just as often as they are right. Let's not forget that "people", when they had the chance to do the right thing, voted YES on Prop 8 and denied marriage equality to gays and lesbians in the State of California. The "people" were dead wrong, there. And it finally had to be decided by the courts. 

That kinda sucks, right? The "people" SHOULD have their say - oh, wait, unless the "people" are amazingly discriminatory and voting to strip civil rights from other people. It's never as simple a situation as people think. Nothing ever is. Otherwise, it would be fixed already. Welcome to the rest of the world. wink emoticon