Crap! Looks like the "wrong" people sat it out. Sorry Pablo, no lack of effort on your part. I wonder how much of the fed-up-with-politics (and especially fed up with Pubbies!) sentiment played into this? It could be yet another indicator that most people are already thinking beyond politics and know that all our institutions are fatally compromised.
Sorry Pablo, I know you put a lot of effort into this, and your candidate seemed a good man.. but I think Libertas fingered the problem.. a lot of people ( say me for instance) just don't care about the elections
1) The Dems are cheating. Illegal immigrant Votes. Dead Votes. Kicking Judges out of Halls. Stuffing Ballots. And the GOP is LEGALLY FORBIDDEN TO CONTEST election results, and the Media covers up any wrong doing by the Dems.
2) Most politicians are Statists - or they wouldn't be politicians, and they lie a lot. GOP more than Dems because they are Big Govt States who have to lie about it to their base as well as to the "middle"
3) Power Corrupts- Even if you get a good man (or woman) in, they will be pressured by the incumbent class to "play ball" and if they don't, the NSA information will be used to dig up dirt on them, or on loved ones to blackmail them with. If that doesn't work they will get threats of violence. At some point protecting your own becomes paramount - especially if they are also dangling the carrot of the lavish lifestyle of corruption. Very few people ( and even fewer who can get themselves elected) have the sort of bed rock principles that would allow them to stay on course under those pressures
4) There is nothing that can be done at this point to fix it anyway. Letting it Burn is actually our fastest way to the other side, and out best chance to turn up the heat enough something beneficial MIGHT happen before the Despots have the full police state in place. The entire govt apparatus would mutiny against a congress that actually wanted to call them to account. I think that much has become clear as every congressional inquiry into the govt apparatus, from the Gun running ATF to the CIA /embassy to the IRS to the EPA to the VA - all simply stonewall and disobey . As long as the General Attorney refuses to prosecute no one will care. Obama has issued a default blanket pardon to all members of Govt advancing his agenda - by making it know he has no intention of letting anyone go to jail. Not illegal immigrants. Not John Corzine. Even if you were able to fix/dismantle these rogue agencies and separate them from their crony corporations, the financial situation is such that we can no longer avoid the loss of the reserve currency. The Depression will get worse and worse. Stop Fed govt spending completely and at least 25% of GDP goes away overnight. Stop borrowing and 5% goes away. Not to mention the Civil unrest from reducing the Entitlement payouts. Keep going and eventually the dollar becomes irrelevant. The nation is addicted to Crack Cocaine - can't get off, can't keep taking.)
Given that list, what is the point in voting?
Update: I submit as further evidence, this instapundit post:
SPYING: EFF Tells Court That The NSA Knowingly And Illegally Destroyed Evidence In Key Case Over Bulk Surveillance.
They told me if I voted for Mitt Romney, we’d see . . . oh, hell, what difference, at this point, does it make?
Posted at 7:41 am by Glenn Reynolds
We are beyond lawlessness, recording each breach now is also pointless. Just get the leftists you know out of your life, find a way to produce what you need, and get ready to endure a lot of pain, because there is nothing now that can be done to lessen it.
