dna said:
I wish i had someone i could support for president.
How did all our politicians get so bad?
Simple - no campaign spending limits, no donation limits and a incumbent re-election rate of almost 97%. Sorry America - your country is broken. There is no difference between dems and reps. Nearly every single person in the Senate or House is a millionaire or so beholden to them they no longer represent the average American. Corporate rule is now firmly in place. Some coin that fascism, but I don't think you are there yet. But unless you get control of who controls the reigns of power your country is on a one way ride like all empires before it - down.
I don't say that to be mean or cause a fight as when America falls so does Canada, because our countries are so inter-twined.
Get control of the money and you retake your representatives. In Canada we have firm set limits on how much a candidate can spend. It levels the playing field. We have viable third and fourth parties - and a fifth on the way. You essentially have a one party state because only those with money get elected. In Canada in most ridings(districts for you Americans) the max allowed to be spent is less than $80,000 dollars. At comparable sizes for each, think of what that would do to your elections! No longer could the one with the most money or the one willing to sell their soul for money be able to automatically win.
I've run for government myself - I got nearly 10% of the vote while spending less than $1000. American elections see that amount spent in less than half an hour. When 40% of Americans make less than $2000 take home each month how is the average joe/jane American supposed to get equal access as those donating hundreds of thousands of dollars per year? How could they possibly think of running themselves and competing?
The yahoo that just won as mayor of NY spent millions of his own dollars to get elected. You don't do that unless you expect a big payback if you catch my drift.
It doesn't matter who runs - you have no say no matter what lore tells you. The American system of government has great features, but also some huge flaws. You have no right to recall, and no way to force out a government between elections no matter what they do, or how much damage they cause - short of revolution of course.
Simple test for my American friends - quickly tell me the name of the leaders of the Green Party and Libertarian Party in the United States - without using google...
Rant off.
