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Originally Posted by FlameOn
It's ok America, the government has been a sytem of bribery and cronyism so long that there is nothing to complain about. #DNC #RNC
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It's not that there's nothing to complain about--it's that both sides are equally guilty. We just aren't getting leaked emails from the RNC, which I'd imagine contain just as much damning information (and potentially more, given the documents found while investigating NC's attempt to suppress voting). It's a corrupt, ugly system and no one is denying that, but it's the system we're stuck functioning within, so why blame one party when the other does the same?
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Originally Posted by peter12
Move to Mexico? Profit?
I think that a party platform that successfully demonstrates how power can effectively be moved to the local level in a sustainable and equitable manner would be very successful.
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Until we can get money out of politics, this is never going to happen. A candidate like that wouldn't have the money to go head-to-head with the GOP/DNC and would stand no chance in a federal election.
1) Third party candidates need to rally votes in local elections first--at county and state levels. If independent politicians could get a foothold at the level of state legislatures and then in Congress/House, they would stand a better chance of changing politics in America. They can't keep waiting until Presidential election years to push someone forward, they need to work on lower levels for a long time before they can start any real attempt at gaining the White House.
2) The GOP wants to further hamstring campaign finance laws, which would take this problem and dig it deeper into the workings of American politics. At least Democrats pay lip service to wanting to limit the effects of Citizens United, etc. Whether they'll actually make changes is yet to be seen, but the GOP platform explicitly states that it wants to allow for more private, secret funding of campaigns, not less, which puts more power in the hands of lobbyists, corporations, and the ultra-wealthy, who don't need more of a voice in Washington.