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CrispyQ

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4. Get money out of politics, NOW, then see what happens.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Tue Sep 19, 2017, 11:17 AM

Sep 2017

I would still like to get away from the two-party, winner-takes-all system we have, but first & foremost, we must demand publicly funded elections. And shorter campaign cycles. Our political process is a fucking business, right now, & it shouldn't be.

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