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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Nothing has changed. When you can point to the someone doing the egregious, illegal, and unconstitutional #### the Trump admin was doing, I'll let you hurl that in my face. When the Democrats start stripping away people's right to vote, make it almost impossible for groups of people to vote, and entrench laws that benefit ONLY the rich, I'll let you circle back and I'll fall on my sword. Until then this is just rubecube hurling his feces in every direction because his personal agenda is not be addressed and he wants the whole system to burn to the ground as a result. There's a little bit of Steve Bannon there.
As it is, Biden is maintaining status quo in many regards, which is exactly what Obama was forced to do during his first two years in office. Change didn't really start until after the mid-terms in his first term in office, so that is the same expectation I have for the Biden admin. Trust me, I'm ready to nail this mother####er to the wall as well, because he has not followed through on a couple significant promises of change, and not protecting the poor/weak as aggressively as he should. The unfortunate thing the current mechanism allows for limited action other than voting them out, and the alternative is a million times worse because it is a return to mayhem.
As far as changing the system, I'm currently dedicating some of my time on getting Ms. Sinema out of office. The challenge is finding a good candidate to replace her. The Arizona Dems want to run a guy that I think will be just as bad, and two other candidates seem open to outside influence. We need a good candidate, and they are really hard to find. The biggest problem we face is money in politics, and unfortunately money in politics is how candidates are selected. Until we can break the power of money in Washington, and the trickledown effect that has in the system, we're stuck fighting this larger problem of politicians working for themselves.
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I agree wholeheartedly with your first paragraph.
But the money conversation is interesting. I know nothing of Arizona politics, but most Republican primary contests lately have gone to the no-money Tea Party guys against the wishes of where the party money was funneling. They were the most horrible and deplorable candidates around. Biden's campaign was broke when they turned things around. I don't know that money is even the be all end all, it once was.
If it's not money or any kind of establishment support that rules, does that mean we're left with populism? Count me out if we're relying on populism to produce good government, as I don't have any faith in what comes out of those movements on either end of the political spectrum, and they do seem to mostly live at those ends.