Negative campaigns insult democracy !

Way over on the political Left myself, I am not likely

    ever to vote in a Republican primary. If you have any real democratic

    instinct, you can only feel sorry for incorrigible Republicans here

    in Rhode Island. Yes, it would be nice to have a viable third

    party, but right now in Rhode Island we don't even have a credible

    TWO party system !

                 The entrenched Democrats, I guess, just can't do

    enough for the working class, the small business class... while

    never seriously hurting those shadowy plutocrats. And they just

    LOVE the poor and homeless too !

                 The few Republicans that compete here for Election

    Day humiliation clearly hate one another.  The Republican candidates

    for governor are setting a new standard for negative campaigning.

               Most political campaigns here have nothing to do with

    issues and ideas. Again and again the proven formula for success

    is to suggest that  an opponent is a morally and intellectually

    inferior jackass. You would think that just about everybody running

    for office is hiding his or her criminal record !

            Isn't this an insult to democracy ? The inference one

    can make from mutually negative campaigns is that the incumbent

    is knave who fooled  the voters.  The challenger is a knight in

    shining  armor, of the highest character.

                By this way of thinking - the voters are always

    victims of masters of deceit.  Failure in the election is proof

    of virtue.

                   How can a viable democracy be founded on the

    assumption that the masses are hopelessly gullible ? The

    negative campaign principle suggests that  EVERY elected official

    in the country is a rogue.

               The public ought to know better ! Sometimes you can

    really feel sorry for EVERYBODY who wants to  get elected to

    anything.

                 I am sure that Dick Nixon went to heaven !