Baby Possum

What would you think your day was going to end up like if it started with your dog cornering a baby possum in the back yard and then the baby pooping on the floor?

Low Informed Voter

So I have spent the last 12 hours arguing with some whack job over the definition of low informed voter in addition to fables of election law both nationally and on a state level. I am going to make my definition of low informed voter because I thing mine is more comprehensive and accurate than most.

"Low Informed Voter" = a single issues voter. The pundits group low informed as low income or depending on the pundit minority voters and thus they say that they vote for their freebies that the government gives out to them. Fine if a low informed voter only votes to get something then pro-choice, pro-life, pro-gun, anti-gun voters are also low informed voters. If a single issue blind your whole vote the. You are low informed. The difference being that these voters, in the eyes of the pundits, are white and educated. So they are "single issue" voters which is smart talk for low informed voter.

A union member who votes for someone who raids his pension fund only because that person will support conceal carry is a low informed voter. The same with a pro-choice voter who will vote for someone who will turn around and cut funds to education or the department of corrections or will raise their taxes.

I am lumping the extremes of all of these together. Not all pro-gun, pro-choice or pro-anything voters a like that but enough are to make you wonder. We already have abysmal voter turnout in this country and the 30% of eligible voters who are actually turning out have a significant number of my defined "low informed voters."

We need more information and more motivation to get people involved.

I'm BACK!

I have been gone too long. I will now return with vengeance and fury!

More soon!

Things that drive me nuts!

Maybe I have done politics too long.  Even people I support annoy me with their lack of knowledge of how to get things done.  A few things that drive me nuts and that I suggest:
#1 know your audience -- don't talk jobs to the wealthy
#2 if someone says they don't support them then stop communicating with them
#3 once someone supports you leave them alone until it is time to remind them to vote

Anonymous!!!

Are you Anonymous ??????

The question remains to be seen but the gist of the argument is this.  Is working together as one unknown face to try and accomplish change the right way to go about it or is the best way to voice and rally people to your cause with what you as an individual have to say?

I tend to wear my politics on my sleeve.  I lived and worked it for years so i really had no choice.  It paid the bills.  But even in that environment you had to conform in certain comments and your public discourse.  I must admit I threatened to fire people who held personal blogs and expressed non-party speak while being paid by the group collective.

That being said i am now doing this site under the face of Anonymous so as not to deter from what I do in my day to day employment and to not bring problems to my family.  I can free flow without the constant critical editing of my employers.

What do you do?  Are you Anonymous or do you live your life in the sunlight trying to change thing as an individual.  Both have their merits and their place in the world and in history.

I am by no means a hacker who can live without the constraints and controls put in place in the computer world to guide me along.  But in the political world I can do both.  I slip in and out of the sunlight depending on how best I can help who i want to help.  Sometimes publicly and sometimes behind the scenes.