2012-07-03, 11:44 | Link #5102 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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I'm really liking these guys (Montana governor (D) and lt. governor (R) )
http://veracitystew.com/2012/06/26/s...tizens-united/
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2012-07-03, 11:47 | Link #5103 | |
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2012-07-03, 12:18 | Link #5105 | |
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2012-07-03, 14:40 | Link #5106 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Now we're seeing millions of dollars being pumped into local elections from billionaires, corporations, and super-PACs, tripping one key election to flip an entire state for instance. Stopping the "$$=speech", "corp=people", and "unlimited $$" is pretty much the only way to keep grassroots from becoming extinct and to keep puppets-of-the-robber-baron from dominating the entire spectrum of elections in the US. Basically, we're looking at a couple of hundred people in the US spending *billions of dollars* to affect every single key election in the US to their "vision of plutocracy".
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2012-07-03, 15:36 | Link #5107 | |
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And an amendment to the constitution that would allow government to decide what is and isn't political speech would be a bad idea. http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech...k-constitution I don't really care how campaigns are financed when the winner is always predetermined: a Republican or a Democrat. I would rather see effort put into changing the constitution's electoral system. |
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2012-07-07, 14:11 | Link #5109 | |
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John Boehner: Voters Need Not Love Mitt Romney
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/58_1/...-215934-1.html Quote:
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2012-07-07, 14:58 | Link #5112 |
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since their priority is winning above all, there are some truths they cannot overlook and that was one of them, they long for the days of bush jr. who was dumb as a block, but knew how to make part of them vote for him and not just against the opposition.
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2012-07-07, 20:33 | Link #5113 |
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
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At this point, I am starting to think he thinks he is only saying what his supporters already believe.
This is sort of why I no longer care about the outcome of this election as much. I know I don't need to tell the GOP that they have a horrible candidate, because I know that THEY know. What is happening is that the GOP genuinely don't care that they are voting for a bad Presidential candidate. Since the GOP are making an informed choice, who am I to stop them? If more than 50% of the voters come election night genuinely WANT a bad president deliberately, then that's what they will get. Isn't democracy wonderful?
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2012-07-08, 02:02 | Link #5115 |
Logician and Romantic
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If you want to be picky, we can say "more than 50% of the Swing State voters". But at that point it would make people depressed because then you realised how far away from democratic the system is.
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2012-07-08, 05:51 | Link #5117 |
Logician and Romantic
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I am just so glad that in Australia I can vote 3rd party without wasting my vote. Preferential system for the win. And the two major parties can actually SEE how many people who voted them as 2nd choice, vote 3rd party as 1st choice. This means the major parties can determine how many votes are up for grabs if they actually change their stance to suit people like me. It entices them to notice us.
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2012-07-08, 10:39 | Link #5118 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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More corruption of the election process thanks to SCOTUS rulings on Citizens United, etc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/us...usinesses.html I wonder how many corporations bury their political bribery deep in their required financial reports to their stockholders? If my dividends from a company sucked and I found out the company had poured a billion dollars into political causes the CEO got horny over... the pitchforks and torches would come out. <sics the zombie undead Theodore Roosevelt on them>
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2012-07-08, 10:51 | Link #5119 | |
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2012-07-08, 11:08 | Link #5120 |
Juanita/Kiteless
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One day, this corrupt, convoluted, messed up "democracy" is going to come crashing down on us because fools cared more about power than actually working for the greater good of America. And then what? People are ruining America because instead of working out their differences the best they can, like intelligent, decent people, everybody thinks "Our way or no way. Period".
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