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Election 2016
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Republicans Democrats Election 2016 Office of the President (POTUS) Politics
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Get rid of those who have made a career out of this. We need new blood and new ideas!
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LTJG (Join to see)
I agree. I also think that every seat in government should have term limits - or it should be like Jury Duty and you are required to be a part of the government, getting paid a decent salary, but completely randomized. A system draws SS numbers at RANDOM, not based on gender or demographic, and those people fill the government seats for X amount of months.. Just a thought. I am so sick of these lazy, old, and out of touch politicians serving for 30 or 40 years getting paid 3 or 4 times my salary to make decisions no one agrees with - decisions that only benefit themselves and their views.
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LTJG (Join to see) 2 party system is in name only, not action. They both talk a big game, but not in representing their constituents. Nobel class of America, only interested in personal wealth and re-election.
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No, we don't need to abolish the two party system; we just need to take their power away and return to electing Senators and Representatives the way the Constitution proscribes!
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LTC Stephen B.
We need to take power away from the Federal Government and give it back to the States, so a national-level seat will not be so lucrative.
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Maj Rob Drury
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - I realize that. I was just mentioning it as another aspect of our electoral system that has often drawn criticism.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
MSG John Repischak - Correct. Ref; 2000. Gore got the majority popular vote, but Bush won the EC.
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Maj Rob Drury
MSG Stan Hutchison - Well, Gore MAY have won the popular vote; we don't know for sure. They only discovered the widespread fraud in Florida. There was plenty of suspicion of it in many more places.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas LTC Kevin B. CAPT Kevin B. Kanika Misra PO1 Andrew Gardiner
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Rather than abolish the D's and R's outright, get a constitutional amendment, that requires one of several routes to allow voting:
Veteran
Home owner
Employed/self-employed
Business owner (not a board but actual ownership in a small business)
Retired over 60
As qualifications for the right to vote, any of those paths show a stake in our country, which equates to ensuring that special interests become limited in their political clout as the numbers of unemployed, welfare recipients and those who do not hold a stake in our government will have no say in how our government is ran.
I know its a stretch and will probably garner me a lot of rebukes but lets face it, those people who are on hand outs (not Social Security) play to those who give them their money.
Veteran
Home owner
Employed/self-employed
Business owner (not a board but actual ownership in a small business)
Retired over 60
As qualifications for the right to vote, any of those paths show a stake in our country, which equates to ensuring that special interests become limited in their political clout as the numbers of unemployed, welfare recipients and those who do not hold a stake in our government will have no say in how our government is ran.
I know its a stretch and will probably garner me a lot of rebukes but lets face it, those people who are on hand outs (not Social Security) play to those who give them their money.
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"WE THE PEOPLE" need to wake up and take charge. In theory there may be two major parties, but they both are the same. People need to revolt and vote in others. But as usual, it's all about the money, where the money comes from, from whom, and what "their" agenda really is.
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I can't help but wonder what would happen if political parties were outlawed altogether. Every candidates voting record and stance on the issues should be public knowledge and when it comes election time, news media should publish the incumbents record as well as statements from a challenger explaining what they would have done differently and why. No buying politicians with campaign money, no politicians focusing on getting reelected instead of doing their job.
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SHOULD THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM BE ABOLISHED? A good question ….JUST REMEMBER – POLITICS IS PERSONAL.
When I lived in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (now more accurately called "Socialist State of") Tip O'Neal was my Congressman and Speaker of the House. His favorite saying was "All Politics is local." But I would go even further...Politics is Personal. Many of you just might be scratching you head on that one...just let it sink in...because it has a profound effect on how you look at this election. Before I answer there are some points that need to be considered.
Ask yourself this simple question, “Who best represents YOU?” Or as Bill O’Reilly asks, “How is looking out for you?” When you step into that voting booth (as I have for over 40 years of elections) you are selecting the man or woman who will be representing you on issues of governance at the local, state and federal levels. You are in effect giving your consent for them to make rules, regulations and laws as well as take actions on your behalf which have consequences in your life.
You want that elected representative, senator, governor, president or whomever to be responsive to and sensitive of your needs and desires. You want them to be loyal and beholding to you the voter who put them into office and who in theory vote them out. But often your needs are secondary to those of party and even some pressure/special-interest group. So we have a situation where the past few election cycles you have the RINOs talking like conservatives and then cynically acting like elitists after we give them another term. On the liberal Democrat side, they just keep lying about not being socialists (at least until Bernie Sanders).
Are you comfortable with the corruption and reality of the current political situation? With the way the two party system has evolved into the “elitist establishment” vs. the rest of us, it scares the hell out of me. I am not and now realize I have no voice in the way the nation is going. From a personal freedom and economic point of view, I am seeing “We the people” slowly being ground down into serfs (peasants with no freedoms). So yes…the two party system should be abolished and I think we are witnesses of that systems destruction.
When I lived in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (now more accurately called "Socialist State of") Tip O'Neal was my Congressman and Speaker of the House. His favorite saying was "All Politics is local." But I would go even further...Politics is Personal. Many of you just might be scratching you head on that one...just let it sink in...because it has a profound effect on how you look at this election. Before I answer there are some points that need to be considered.
Ask yourself this simple question, “Who best represents YOU?” Or as Bill O’Reilly asks, “How is looking out for you?” When you step into that voting booth (as I have for over 40 years of elections) you are selecting the man or woman who will be representing you on issues of governance at the local, state and federal levels. You are in effect giving your consent for them to make rules, regulations and laws as well as take actions on your behalf which have consequences in your life.
You want that elected representative, senator, governor, president or whomever to be responsive to and sensitive of your needs and desires. You want them to be loyal and beholding to you the voter who put them into office and who in theory vote them out. But often your needs are secondary to those of party and even some pressure/special-interest group. So we have a situation where the past few election cycles you have the RINOs talking like conservatives and then cynically acting like elitists after we give them another term. On the liberal Democrat side, they just keep lying about not being socialists (at least until Bernie Sanders).
Are you comfortable with the corruption and reality of the current political situation? With the way the two party system has evolved into the “elitist establishment” vs. the rest of us, it scares the hell out of me. I am not and now realize I have no voice in the way the nation is going. From a personal freedom and economic point of view, I am seeing “We the people” slowly being ground down into serfs (peasants with no freedoms). So yes…the two party system should be abolished and I think we are witnesses of that systems destruction.
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MCPO Roger Collins
The following quote attributed to Scottish history professor Alexander Tyler in 1787, seems to portray an accurate reflection of what has occurred during our 200+ years of existence as a democracy.…
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