Buffalo Boy's Blog

Freddie P wrote a post on his blog the other day about the state of our primary/election system here in the US, and I can say that I agreed with every word of it. The system is broken on so many levels, at the very least as Fred states in his post, the length of the primaries needs to be cut down.

His main point was that the primaries for both parties carry on way too long. Why can't the whole country have one primary day and stop dragging it all out? All dragging it out does is gives the dumb ass mainstream media too much time to dig stupid and meaningless shit up, talk about things that have nothing to do with whether or not the candidates will be any good as president and it ends up boring the American public with the whole process in general. These candidates get more dirt turned up on them, some fair and some of it not fair, some true and some a big fat lie. Of course, if you did shorten it then some of these asshole media guys might not have jobs which, wouldn't be such a bad thing in some cases. 

Also, you shorten the primary season and you reduce the cost of campaigning. You hold all this stuff on the same day and guess what, it doesn't matter that Obama and Clinton and McCain all have licenses to basically print money during a campaign. They won't have to spend as much because they won't have to criss cross the country 500 times over the 6 month process it is now. Think of how much money would be saved by all parties. It might actually level the playing field so that Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich and Bill Richardson, three guys who I thought all had great ideas that deserved more attention than they got.   

Did anyone particularly care that Wyoming's primary was today? I didn't know until I saw it on CNN. Why can't we do all 50 states and Puerto Rico on a Tuesday in say June. 6 months into the election year. They can still go out and do their thing until June but at a more comfortable pace.  

On top of that, one point that Freddie didn;t make is this whole delegate/electoral college system. Ditch it. Popular vote should reign supreme. By using the delegate system and more importantly this often talked about "super" delegate system, all it does is takes the choice away from hard working Americans who have earned a right to be heard.

In the current system the average American isn't heard, the average American is hardly acknowledged in the whole process. We vote, our votes only decide how many delegates from each state choose which candidate, then the super delegates don't care what the popular vote says, they go with who they want to and that decides who will be the nominee?

Meanwhile, my vote and every other vote in this country has lost their voice in the perverbial ballot box. We can only hope that eventually the system will be fixed by someone with some balls. Someone who recognizes that our contitution is a big lie, "We the people" do not get heard, when we eliminate the delegates/super delegates and electoral college and implement a popular voting system, then and only then will "We the people" be heard with equal voices.

I could go on and on about how the system is broken and needs to be fixed. What do you all think?