Tennessee Congressional Candidate Arrested for Shooting Flock Safety Cameras

Did you guys know that when you vote for state primaries you have to choose which political party to get the choices for and you don’t see any other choices?

So this guy being independent, you would only ever get to vote for him if you picked the independent ballot and then you couldn’t vote for any of the democrats who are the only real chances to actually win against republicans and unseat them.

Whole thing’s fucking rigged man.

I mean that’s kind of how it works. A primary is simply a primary between that particular party’s candidates. So you’re not going to be choosing this guy for Democrat ballot if you’re an independent. I’m an independent and I’m not voting in the Democrat or Republican primaries. However in the general election I can then choose whatever candidate I want to select. I’ve never heard of an independent primary but then again most Independence are not listed as a specific political party. Because independent is not a political party it is a non-affiliation.

I mean that’s kind of how it works

And since you didn’t immediately follow that with “and that’s why the entire worthless system needs to be dismantled with prejudice” I stopped reading.

That being “how it works” is a part of the problem.

What an idiotic statement. Yeah the system sucks it needs to be fixed it’s fucking broken. We need more than two actual parties in this system. However it’s the system we have and it’s the system we have to work in so immediately stopping reading is the stupidest fucking thing you can do. Get registered fucking vote quit bitching and whining unless you’re part of the system and trying to change it.

The system can’t be fixed, it’s working exactly as intended. All of what you’ve said in multiple comments now seems to be repeating platitudes created to obfuscate that fact. I’ve been “part of the system”. I spent a decade as first a volunteer then a paid campaign staffer, I know whereof I speak when I say that voting will never change anything that matters, because the choices you get to vote for are filtered for loyalty to the ruling class before you ever get to hear their names.

The system must be completely torn down, and the people who the current system serves will absolutely unleash all the violence the Empire can muster to prevent that. Any milquetoast “solution” that depends on voting for the candidates put forward by either of the parties that serve that ruling class is not a solution, it’s a trap to get you to waste your time and energy while ensuring you keep enough faith in the system to prevent you from revolting or doing anything that might actually affect the status quo.

Oh no the system can’t be fixed everything’s going to waste! oh no what are we going to do! fucking complain some more Jesus Christ you little bitch

Very persuasive. You’ve convinced me. Doing more of what got into this point over the last 40 years will definitely fix it. Just vote Blue No Matter Who! Surely one of these times Lucy won’t snatch the football away, right?