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In reply to the discussion: Polls Show That America Has Lost Faith in America’s Rigged Elections [View all]Cary
(11,746 posts)66. So you get out that old retrospectoscope of yours and claim you could have done it better
Impressive.
You understate the enormity of the task and disrespect the hard, hard work done by the heroes who lived it and made it happen. You're an armchair quarterback and ironically you being that is the best proof of my point.
Talk is cheap. If your ideas are so great stop trash talking on the Internet and get to work. The radical right has all kinds of institutions, think tanks, propaganda arms, and local government initiatives. And where is the radical left? What does the radical left have, other than discord and discontent and contempt for the majority?
Pfeh.
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Polls Show That America Has Lost Faith in America’s Rigged Elections [View all]
GoLeft TV
Jun 2016
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left-wing, right-wing, and moderates must come together to reform our election and political systems
stillwaiting
Jun 2016
#7
I know that elected politicians would be EXTREMELY averse to reforming the system.
stillwaiting
Jun 2016
#23
I'd like to see a voting "holiday", as well as the other proposals listed in your sig line.
PWPippin
Jun 2016
#102
So you get out that old retrospectoscope of yours and claim you could have done it better
Cary
Jun 2016
#66
What about those legal voters that can't vote because of voter roll purges and party flipping?
-none
Jun 2016
#115
no, corporate media gave them choices, herding to the inevitable corp friendly candidates
larkrake
Jun 2016
#86
Bingo. Obama Derangement Syndrome morphs into Hillary Derangement Syndrome. (nt)
ehrnst
Jun 2016
#22
Well the candidate that didn't get the backing of the majority of white men didn't win.
ehrnst
Jun 2016
#21
The teams that lost are screaming rigged and so is the privilged white, male, hetero, rich, Christia
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#26
"Imagine a single open primary where (a la California) the top candidates advance to the General..."
kjones
Jun 2016
#29
They have lost faith with good reason. The cheating and voter suppression is rampant. nt
GoneFishin
Jun 2016
#30
Posting a photo of Clinton next to Trump with this headline suggest to me that...
Nitram
Jun 2016
#34
Probably. Bernie has been the victim of the preposterously lop-sided exit polls which favor
GoneFishin
Jun 2016
#65
I was a sore loser in 2000 too. I don't know anybody who likes being cheated.
GoneFishin
Jun 2016
#117
I have never, in my 66 years of life, felt less connected to this country than I do now.
floriduck
Jun 2016
#127
the problem is simple, a majoritarian system dominated by 2 parties is systemically
AntiBank
Jun 2016
#33
I have faith in rigged elections. I just don't have faith in fair elections. nt
valerief
Jun 2016
#85