"Independents Circumvent The Threshold"
The headline above is not one you would find on any American front page…but it very well could be if the American people would start facing realty.
From almost halfway around the world the story begins:
“The forces of history hit Turkey with two fists in yesterday's general elections: First the landslide Justice and Development Party (AKP) victory and then scores of “independent” candidates who managed to get into Parliament.”
The thing that struck me (besides the two fists mentioned above) was the “scores of independents who managed to get into Parliament.”
Taking a line from former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts, “Americans are being brainwashed.” He also said on a recent radio show, “We’re really not very bright.”
Combined those two quotes with the media controlled direction of the current election charade in America you can sum them up into one word, “turkey” (as in stupid as a turkey).
Yes, indeed, the American voters are stupid! If they were smart and could really face reality then we might see scores of independents managing to get into Washington.
As we continue with the story from the Turkish Daily News:
“This wave of independent candidates is a first in Turkish history and testifies to an undeniable fact: The 10 percent national threshold in the election system is unsustainable. Indeed, if the threshold was 5 percent – or less, as in many European countries – the Democrat Party (DP), which got 5.39 percent of the vote, or even the Young Party (GP) with 3 percent, would have been represented in Parliament. In a country with more than 42 million voters, the total votes for these two parties amount to nearly 1.9 million. And that amounts to a population almost exactly equal to Slovenia's that have been disenfranchised, left without parliamentary representation. That alone gives an idea on the limits of Turkish democracy. ”
Now if only American would wake up, the headlines of tomorrow would be a re-print from Turkey, “The Democratic Party got 5.39 percent of the vote!”
From almost halfway around the world the story begins:
“The forces of history hit Turkey with two fists in yesterday's general elections: First the landslide Justice and Development Party (AKP) victory and then scores of “independent” candidates who managed to get into Parliament.”
The thing that struck me (besides the two fists mentioned above) was the “scores of independents who managed to get into Parliament.”
Taking a line from former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts, “Americans are being brainwashed.” He also said on a recent radio show, “We’re really not very bright.”
Combined those two quotes with the media controlled direction of the current election charade in America you can sum them up into one word, “turkey” (as in stupid as a turkey).
Yes, indeed, the American voters are stupid! If they were smart and could really face reality then we might see scores of independents managing to get into Washington.
As we continue with the story from the Turkish Daily News:
“This wave of independent candidates is a first in Turkish history and testifies to an undeniable fact: The 10 percent national threshold in the election system is unsustainable. Indeed, if the threshold was 5 percent – or less, as in many European countries – the Democrat Party (DP), which got 5.39 percent of the vote, or even the Young Party (GP) with 3 percent, would have been represented in Parliament. In a country with more than 42 million voters, the total votes for these two parties amount to nearly 1.9 million. And that amounts to a population almost exactly equal to Slovenia's that have been disenfranchised, left without parliamentary representation. That alone gives an idea on the limits of Turkish democracy. ”
Now if only American would wake up, the headlines of tomorrow would be a re-print from Turkey, “The Democratic Party got 5.39 percent of the vote!”
EXCELLENT POST!!!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely agree with Spreezie. Excellent! Thanks for covering an important election that has gotten somewhat obscured by our own political turmoil. Very informative -- and not a little disturbing.
ReplyDeleteThank you sir.
It is going to take another 91101 before we Americans as a whole will even consider waking up.
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