And you've hit the nail on the head for my point, Socata. As long as people remain entrenched in the mindset that one is wasting their vote if they're not voting for an obvious winner, it will remain the truth. The MOMENT one frees themselves from that and votes
according to conscience, integrity, and uses past behavior as an indicator of future behavior, then the "dogma" begins to change. If all the people who say, "Oh, I like Ron Paul, but he hasn't got a chance of winning so I'm voting for someone who has a chance" changed their tune then politicians like him WOULD have a chance.
But, they don't, maybe they can't. I think it actually speaks to this American mindset of "winning is everything". "I want to know that I voted in the winner, I helped vote in that winner!"
Not, "I voted for a dog who lost his pants."
Most people want to vote for the winner, to have those bragging rights.
Most Americans are amazingly, incredibly, depressingly ignorant. Not stupid, IGNORANT. And stupid can't be helped, ignorant CAN. Problem is, they fucking can't be arsed.
Most Americans are not interested in pulling for the losing team (Saints, anyone?) unless they're winning, and are often "bandwagoners", those who wait to jump the train until they can determine which train is pulling into the best stop. Thing is, it's not necessarily the best stop for them, is it? Not when you get what you "wanted".
Millions WILL vote for RP. Likely won't be enough, but we
will vote.
