MisterVeritis (10-20-2018)
We are all brothers and sisters in humanity. We are all made from the same dust of stars. We cannot be separated because all life is interconnected.
CU helped turn government for sale into government OPENLY for sale. An amendment for public funding of elections for 5 or 6 parties at really low levels would level the playing field stop the two from cramming their propaganda down the public's throat. Forcing the voters top do actual research!
My point was how someone advocating democracy was excluding groups they didn't like.
CU did nothing of the sort. That happened during the Progressive Era when companies and corporations realized they could get things done by petitioning the government to pay for it with taxes. For example, before that, river levis were build by the companies that profited from them; then those companies said wait we're protecting the people so let's ask the government to pay for it. Road to perdition paved with good intentions.
The corruption problem isn't with money to fund campaigns, it lies with politicians in power selling favors to rent seekers. The idea that you can somehow control elections in such a way that good politicians will get elected is nonsense. In order to stop the corrupt you need to reduce the size and scope of the government.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Not true. Citizens United only removed the limit to free speech 60 days before a general election and 30 days before a primary.
SpeachNow.org vs. FEC removed in the DC court of appeals removed the spending limit.
Spending buckets of money certainly didn’t help Hillary.
When Donald Trump said to protest “peacefully”, he meant violence.
When he told protesters to “go home”, he meant stay for an insurrection.
And when he told Brad Raffensperger to implement “whatever the correct legal remedy is”, he meant fraud.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.