Process Problems
Well, I’ve been floating around reading the reactions to the process J has been involved in for replacing Tom DeLay on the ballot. One of the things that amuses me the most is the people who are complaining about the process being shrouded in secrecy and undemocratic. A handy little hint from the resident YPS third-party advocate: if you are a fervent supporter of either major party, you need to have a nice hot cup of STFU right about now. The donks and the efenants rigged this game long ago to the exclusion of everybody else.
The party gets to pick Tom DeLay’s replacement because both parties got together and set it up that way. Don’t like it? Boo fucking hoo. Your people wrote the rules to privilege themselves and make it more difficult for anyone else to gain access to the process. If you were fine with it when the state made Kinky and Carol go out and get signatures, don’t bitch now. If you think it’s just peachy that the state assists the parties in determining their candidates by helping with the primaries, don’t complain. It’s all well and good when the system produces a result you prefer, but once you don’t like it, you whine. The way this is playing out is the way it’s set out in the election code. Don’t like the election code, get it changed. Let me be the first to say good luck with your efforts. Call me when you’re successful. I won’t be hanging out by the phone waiting.
The party gets to pick Tom DeLay’s replacement because both parties got together and set it up that way. Don’t like it? Boo fucking hoo. Your people wrote the rules to privilege themselves and make it more difficult for anyone else to gain access to the process. If you were fine with it when the state made Kinky and Carol go out and get signatures, don’t bitch now. If you think it’s just peachy that the state assists the parties in determining their candidates by helping with the primaries, don’t complain. It’s all well and good when the system produces a result you prefer, but once you don’t like it, you whine. The way this is playing out is the way it’s set out in the election code. Don’t like the election code, get it changed. Let me be the first to say good luck with your efforts. Call me when you’re successful. I won’t be hanging out by the phone waiting.
posted by T at 5:05 PM
1 Comments:
If you read your post again, I think you'll agree that you haven't presented your point very effectively. Much of it reads like a juvenile outburst (too many f-bombs).
And I honestly don't follow the logic that if a person was silent about Kinky's barriers to the ballot that he has lost his privilege to comment on the opaque selection process to select DeLay's replacement. Could you please try to restate that?
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