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      Elections are over. The US is cooked.

      The current regime will enact Russia-style “elections”.

      Without violent revolution, the US is over.

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      oh no. this guy is Ron Paul’s son. Senator from Kentucky like Mitch Mccooonnel, oops

      Ron Paul, oh I liked him when I was into hating the DEA the FED and etc.

      remember when “audting the fed” was controversial. Elon Musk thought that meant deranged bullshit please, unto me

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      hes actually from the same state as mcconnel. hes not as smart, or craven as mitch though.

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    Man if only he could like vote to get rid of them or something. too bad he’s literally powerless and can’t do a thing to stop this. /s

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    Hopefully the republicans can go the way of the whigs, the democratic party can become the conservative party they so desperately want to be, and we can create an actual party on the left.

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      I’ve wanted this for ages. And it’s represented so well in Republicans having only one platform: “Oppose Democrats. If it makes a Democrat angry, do it.”

      Cleanse - and I mean CLEANSE - the opposition party. No one here can claim the Democrats never have good ideas. And yet, we can definitely do better than them. A better party means having better ideas - not just “Stop them libruls”. Bernie just toured the States with a message of exactly what that would look like.

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    It would be too soon, if we got rid of them and these Corpo Dems. We could remove citizens United and few other worthless pieces of legislation. That and stop this fucking election tampering in the name “stopping fraud” fucking clowns making voting a single day during the work week and these Red hatted goons cheer for this shit like the mouth breathing inbred ghouls they are because they hate everyone else is beyond annoying.

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      Citizens United wasn’t legislation, it was a Supreme Court decision. The only way to fix it following the current rules is to ask the court again or to change the Constitution. Of course, if you are willing to just ignore laws then you have many options (see current Presidential administration for examples).

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        Hawaii was recently successful in enacting state laws to limit campaign contributions. I’d hope that other states willing to tackle the fight could do the same. The biggest chance would be if it could be done in battleground states.

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        Not sure why you were downvoted for stating facts, guess they hurt someone’s feelings as a certain annoying little gremlin loved to say

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        Considering the rampant gerrymandering, the fucked system that’s the electoral college, this past election having widespread voter intimidation, destruction of mail-in ballot collection boxes…was the last one a legit election? How long has it been since there was one?

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          Dont forget the swing state statistical anomalies. No, the last one wants fair and none going forward will be either.

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          Yesterday we voted and kept wi supreme Court leaning Dem despite being outspent 10:1 for the second time in 4 years. You need to keep voting and spread the word. I convinced a co worker to vote that also thought it was useless. Every vote matters

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          was the last one a legit election?

          No. And there may also have been hacking of voting machines.

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    So they get power and do a bunch of shitty things. Then no one wants them in power anymore. Seems the country was doing quite well without them at the helm. Now…not so much.