Let's Ban Political Parties From the Political Process

From the Associated Press:

Obama floated the idea of mandatory voting in the U.S. while speaking to a civic group in Cleveland on Wednesday. Asked about the corrosive influence of money in U.S. elections, Obama digressed into the related topic of voting rights and said the U.S. should be making it easier — not harder— for people to vote.

"If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country," Obama said, calling it potentially transformative. Not only that, Obama said, but universal voting would "counteract money more than anything."

"Universal voting would counteract money more than anything," makes as much sense as anything else Obama has said.

The idea that people utilizing their freedom of association to pool resources in order to influence politics is somehow corruptive of the political process stems from the unspoken idea that the country is one big commons owned collectively by us all and the government's purpose is to decide how to fairly allocate the commons. In an actual free country there is no such problem. The country isn't one big socialized commons. But in a socialized country where the presumption is that everything in the country is one big commons creates a lot of interests vying for control.

Though it is aberrant to the sensibilities of honest people let's take Obama at his word. He wants to end the corruption of the commons. In that case the most corrupting influence on the fairness of the use of the national socialized commons is the political parties themselves. In a free country,(as America at one time was) the two Party system was a very positive thing in political life. In this age of socialization and nationalization the political parties have, and do, act as conspiracies against the good governance of the commons, our socialized country.

Historically, political parties in socialized countries have always worked against the people of the countries - the political parties becoming little more than organized criminal conspiracies whose purpose is always at odds with the good fair distribution of the commons.

For this reason let us agree with Obama and demand good government uncorrupted by special interests and demand the complete ban of political parties from politics.
 

How dare you impugne the good name of our beloved Party? Amen Brother!
 

This will make everything more efficient.
 

I am confused by the differences between political party and political potty.
Help is encouraged because you will be punished.
 

If everyone were dragged to the polls by the Government Election Police, and forced at gunpoint to cast a ballot, it would indeed change the political map in this country. We can expect such an effort to be just as successful as Obamacare at improving the lives of citizens.

Side note: If one Government Election Police Officer can force 100 people to vote in an election, around 3 million such will be required ... or 1% of the U.S. population.
 

Lev Termen

If everyone were dragged to the polls by the Government Election Police, and forced at gunpoint to cast a ballot, it would indeed change the political map in this country. We can expect such an effort to be just as successful as Obamacare at improving the lives of citizens.

Side note: If one Government Election Police Officer can force 100 people to vote in an election, around 3 million such will be required ... or 1% of the U.S. population.
Are you volunteering for the job Comrade Lev? It gives a whole new perspective to the "1%". Perhaps that's why we need so many Americans in Waiting™, to do the dirty job that 1% of Americans just won't do. Hint: Americans get very squeamish when it comes to holding one another at gunpoint.
 

Konservative_Punk made me chuckle when he

Americans get very squeamish when it comes to holding one another at gunpoint.

God-King Obama has stockpiled some 3 billion rounds of hollow-point ammo. Use of this ammo is forbidden in armed conflict by international agreement, so the only possible use is "domestic disturbance control" and policy enforcement.
 

Many years ago, I was stationed in a country (hints to follow about its identity) where such a voting system worked very efficiently. If it was determined that certain residents of a community hadn't voted by a certain time on election day, the local constabulary would visit their homes and "escort" them to the polls. At that time, the "voters" would be handed pre-marked ballots and instructed to drop these ballots in the designated ballot boxes. (I should note that most non-escorted voters also received pre-marked ballots.) They were then escorted home again. The deterrent effect was almost as important as the actual rounding up, in that the people who had been "escorted" once wouldn't risk ever being "escorted" again, and their neighbors who'd seen them being "escorted" would be afraid to risk it themselves. So ... one hundred percent turnout, and less and less need for escorts as people got the idea that they'd better vote or else. (Hint about this country: It wasn't in Europe or the Americas, the time frame was the early to mid 1970s, the country was under martial law, and the President's wife really, really, really liked shoes.)
 

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Kitty, I too was assigned to hardship duties in Kansas for a time...I still have the nightmares.
 

 

I know I am not paid my beet and vodka ration to think... but. I believe the two party system with mandatory vote in a socialised communised country is not only necessary but a stroke of Machiavellian genius. Whilst the majority of re-educated voters become ever more politically benign, there are still conservative agitators who stir up resistance in the social Millpond of App-athy. Being prone to traditional virtues like honesty, respect for law, these 20th century throwbacks are made less militant by the promise of Hope and Change at the Next Election. Guffaw!
It's an inexpensive system of containment and control, comrades. And they still work and pay taxes! No costly gulags necessary, which means more vodka at the Party conventions for us. It works a treat down here, Down Under. As long as the masses believe they are getting stuff for nothing, the majority will be ours, the minority will Hope for Change. Oh, I think its so funny, I'm crying.
 

RedDiaperette

....If it was determined that certain residents of a community hadn't voted by a certain time on election day, the local constabulary would visit their homes and "escort" them to the polls. At that time, the "voters" would be handed pre-marked ballots and instructed to drop these ballots in the designated ballot boxes. (I should note that most non-escorted voters also received pre-marked ballots.) They were then escorted home again. ....

This is a klassik "kommon sense approach" that must be forced upon Amerika. I am sure Komrade Glorious Leader is right now incorporating this same procedure in his mandatory voting eksekutive order. As komrad Termen stated, those hollow point bullets were acquired for a reason. Those who insist on not voting will be handed shovels, told to dig their own graves, and then each will receive a hollow point bullet at the base of the skull. May the FORCE be with us!

BTW, there will be a proviso in the eksekutive order to ensure that the money kontinues to flow to the Demokrat Party from labor union money laundering operations, DOE grant recipient kickbacks, agents of the PRC, the race industry, useful idiots, etc.
 

Who would have thought that one sitting Glorious Leader could take Amerika from Lone International Superpower to an overgrown Banana Republik is such short order? I suppose the kondtions were made ripe by his predecessors, so they deserve some of the kredit, however I never envisioned in my wildest dreams, so much Forward Progress in just a shade over one five-year plan. At this rate, Dear Leader could very well achieve what so many Soviet leaders strived for: Global Unification between the Soviets and and the People's Banana Republik of Amerika. We must add Dear Leader's name to the list of Most Equal Leaders: Lenin, Stalin, Kruschev, Brezhnev, and Now: Obama.
 

Konservative_Punk

Who would have thought that one sitting Glorious Leader could take Amerika from Lone International Superpower to an overgrown Banana Republik is such short order? I suppose the kondtions were made ripe by his predecessors....

We now live in an overgrown, over-ripe Banana Republik, thanks largely to Komrade Glorious Leader and other Demokrat establishment members. The RINO establishment should receive some thanks as well for providing their support. FORWARD!
 

Karl Marx Treatment Center

In that case the most corrupting influence on the fairness of the use of the national socialized commons is the political parties themselves. In a free country,(as America at one time was) the two Party system was a very positive thing in political life. In this age of socialization and nationalization the political parties have, and do, act as conspiracies against the good governance of the commons, our socialized country.
You are Korrect comrade!

What we need is one big National Socialist Party for Worker's paradise.

And as Comrade Hillary suggests, those who disagree should be sent of to Fun camps to concentrate their patriotic fervor!