What a tidy little setup they’ve got down in Arkansas – a tidy set up for the people in power, that is. It’s not such a great deal for the voters.
The Arkansas Republicans are conservative, but then on the other hand, the Arkansas Democrats are too. So, the Arkansas Democratic Party dominates, but with the kind of old Democratic Party ideology that favored slavery around the time of the Civil War. The Arkansas Republicans seem to be just fine with that.
There are five congressional races this year in Arkansas, and I can tell you exactly who’s going to win in each race. That’s not because I’m some kind of super genius. It’s because there isn’t any actual race in any of these races. Not one of the five members of Congress up for re-election in Arkansas this year has any candidate from the other major political party running against them.
Arkansas voters don’t have much of a choice. In three of the five campaigns, there is only one candidate running. In the other two races, incumbents Senator Mark Pryor and Representative John Boozman are opposed only by candidates from the Green Party of Arkansas. I am thankful to the Green Party candidates for running at all, but we all know what a record of electoral success the Green Party has accumulated.
In no congressional campaign is there any competition between a Democrat and a Republican. The Republican and Democratic parties of Arkansas seem to have come to a dirty little understanding: They won’t fight against each other, because they both promote the same corrupt right wing politics.
The best progressives in Arkansas can do is vote with their feet, and move the heck out of Arkansas.
CORRUPTION IN AR is NOT limited to the officials and the candidates.. We ran into a huge good ole boys cover up for lawyers and their golf buddy judges and former judges..and NO AR media will even investigate it nor is there ANY women’s advocates group in AR that will support. These folks are so arrogant and entrenched they do not even attempt to cover tracks and law, ethics rules and other such mundane things means little to them. Were AR only so fortunate as to have corruption and cover up only in elections…AR is rotted to the core and no one will do a thing about it… what we have turned is shocking.. anywhere but AR..