Can We Give It A Rest For At Least A Little While.....

[global1]

Last edited Tue Feb 16, 2021, 01:36 PM - Edit history (1)

Can't the campaigning stop for a little while? We're only a little over a month into Biden's Administration and three months from the 2020 election and already the campaigning has begun about the 2022 and 2024 elections.

Why must this campaign talk go on 24/7 everyday until the next election? Can't we get on with business of governing instead of this constant bickering between the Parties?

The American People need a break here. We've had enough of this campaign talk for the last 4 years of Tr**p.

Stop it already.

[Botany]

1. "Stop it already."

Thank You!

This non stop campaign has to go.

3 things need to be done:

* Get rid of those electronic voting machines

* Get rid of the electoral college

* Presidential elections should be 6 months ... soup to nuts

[Tracer]

8. Thank you for saying "6 month" electioneering.

If I were in charge (lucky I'm not!) that would be the law. This constant electioneering is so overdone.

[Dustlawyer]

14. Get rid of campaign donations, Super Pacs... and pass Publicly Funded Elections.

Have a 4 month campaign window. Once the wealthy cannot legally bribe our politicians and influence the media with large ad buys for Super Pacs their control over our government will weaken dramatically.

Politicians will have more time to govern instead of fundraising.

[PatSeg]

2. I agree, it has gotten absurd

It is like this country is in constant campaign mode, but rarely governing mode. We've just begun a new administration and a new congress, I don't want to hear about 2022 and 2024.

[CrispyQ]

3. We desperately need election reform, & limiting the campaign period should be addressed.

It's partly why Americans are so apathetic, IMO. The campaigning never stops. Election season is never over. Reps, with their two year terms are in campaign mode constantly. Senatorial terms mean at least a third of them are in campaign mode at any given time. If we took money out of politics & had publicly funded elections, it would help. They wouldn't have to spend all of their time asking for money.

[empedocles]

6. Good point

[ProfessorGAC]

4. I'm In!

The perpetual campaign is tiresome.

[SlogginThroughIt]

5. Sadly until the game changes.....No. We cannot.

THe game is what it is. Either we play it or we lose.

[live love laugh]

7. +1 ... we don't have the luxury of ignorance. nt

[Salviati]

18. This.

Refusing to play the game just means you forfeit. We have to change the game first, then we can get a rest.

[uponit7771]

9. No, the Trump anti democracy party doesn't stop and dems can walk and chew gum at the same time.

We're dealing with some literal zombie / walking dead cult fuckers that don't want democracy any longer ... rest when they're gone.

[LakeArenal]

10. No. Not until we can get a handle on the non-stop insurrection that continues.

Trump promises to keep it alive.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Focusing on elections makes it possible to tamp down big changes in policy.

[inwiththenew]

12. Politicians who aren't termed limited and who are not retiring must constantly be campaigning

As soon as they are elected the reelection campaign starts. They need to rebuild the war chest for the next campaign so that's why you get all those letters and email pleas like "look what I did/am trying to do. Now send money please to help.".

Plus the fact that outside groups can dump a seemingly endless amount of money into races you can never have enough cash on hand. Until you completely reform our campaign donation regulations this will be the norm.

[Bev54]

13. As a Canadian I have said the same thing

I do not understand why everyone is not exhausted all the time from constant campaigning and campaigns. I like our 2 month campaigns prior to an election, works well and we move on to governing after, not the next campaign.

[Kaleva]

15. Where is this being done at? I haven't seen it.

I see an occasional post here about election in 2022 and 2024 but that's it and I usually just skip over them.

[SlogginThroughIt]

16. IMO if we aren't working towards 2022

IMO if we aren’t working towards 2022 we are already behind. I don’t want to ever... EVER... go back to 2016-2020.

[marmar]

17. It's the media-fueled never-ending election cycle....

.... US reps are perpetually running for office.

[Kaleva]

20. My sole news source is LBN. i can pick the subjects I have an interest in.

[OregonBlue]

19. Yes, limit campaigns and funding of campaigns to a few months like they do in many countries.

I am so sick of it.

[Chainfire]

21. For the amount of money that has to be raised to finance a campaign

the answer is no. I is a continuous campaign. Every move they make is with the campaign in mind.

Our representatives have to spend most of their time on the phones making deals for the money to get reelected. We will neve have good leadership until that metric changes.

[peggysue2]

22. It is what it is at this point

Does anyone think Republicans will slag off the continuous campaigning?

Until we set things right and install guard rails preventing a successful Trumpian clone from materializing, we campaign and raise money all day and night long. It's absolutely imperative to deny the GOP power and/or installing more Q crazies into the government. At any level. Not to do that would be irresponsible, national suicide and guarantee that President Biden and his agenda would be entirely stalled and jammed up.

The only thing Republicans understand is power. Think McConnell and his cohorts. We need and must rip away that power over several cycles with Democratic victories throughout the system. 2022 & 2024 are critical to that end.

Once this crazy phase is over, if and when Republicans come to their senses or fracture, then we can talk about limiting electioneering to a 3-6 month period. Because it is tiresome and ridiculous. And yes, our elected officials need time to actually govern.

But right now? We need to survive to fight that fight.

[MarcATL]

23. These are pipe dreams...

Not a popular opinion on here I'm sure, but it's the fact.

Capitalism has made it the way it is, and that's the way it'll be.

If anything, it'll only get worse, as it has been all these years.