Odd_so_Star_so_Odd

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Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

It's why big business donates to both parties. Even democrats can be fooled by the corporate propaganda and they all got fundraising targets to meet if they want to keep their seat.

Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

With the naming schemes going on for GOP legislation, that would only tell you that they do everything to hide the actual effects under some nice boilerplate names just to help sell it to their constituents, like if people they elect would never lie to them.

Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

Isn't this why you have the VP running mates? You vote for them just as much.

Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

It's hard to convince people to bother and to care or participate when a bunch of rich aristocrats run the circus, everything from the news to the courts have been corrupted to the point where money and power have practically become synonymous words and now democracy is on the line - so if they want things to change now's the last chance to make a difference.

Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

Every 4 years is really a choice between conquest or making the economy go brrr.

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Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

Scared into submission while getting squeezed out of every cent.

Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

We should be asking why the machine only has two buttons, starting from a low bar and only going lower.

A result of FPTP-voting and the way campaigns are financed. What you get is exactly what the old roman aristocrats intended, when they designed this system over 2 millenia ago to maintain influence: keeping money where the power is and vice versa.

Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

Indeed, get a vaporizer!

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