flynn23 wrote:

Mike the Usurper wrote:
So yes, you do get some schmucks who run, but the folks I'm dealing with daily aren't, we're trying to get them out.

The problem is that the system wasn't designed to "check and balance" the corrosive influence of lobby money. In order for people to run campaigns, at any level, they have to raise money. The bigger the purse, the more special interests and peddled influence creeps into their platforms and the more constrained they get about what they can actually accomplish while in office. Even if you campaign on a "grass roots" effort of "change" and "reform", you're still competing with someone who is going to take the money and the structure behind it that wants to keep the status quo. I don't see how this can be changed or altered. As it is now, even at local political levels (and all politics is local, that's not just a saying) there's basically just a fleecing of the future going on.

As much as I hate to say it, I think you're pretty right with this one. I also think there's a second problem. To a huge level, the political system rewards the corrupt, and so we get people who aren't what we actually need, i.e. not corrupt. That's true in not just the major parties, but all of them. You also get members of the tinfoil hat brigade showing up with staggering regularity.

Frankly, I got sick of being lied to and screwed, and decided to step up to the plate.

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