When did corporations became heavily involved in congress?
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If I'm the candidate for <insert name for some very small political party>, do I get the same amount as the D's and the R's?
Theoretically, yes. Realistically, I'll eat my hat if the theory ever happens
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Originally Posted by TheHurricaneKid
When you see that congressmen take more time to get to know their corporate sponsors rather than their constituents, something is wrong.
That's how I generally feel with the Democrats getting in bed with the anti-human, anti-science global warming lobby while claiming they stick up for the little guy
You'll have an avalanche of candidates, it will never work.
Not really. If you put up a minimum number of signatures, that will weed out the not so serious from the serious. I'd much prefer that than the corruption going on
Time to dissolve the US and go back to just being a colony, I guess
In a sense, you have a point. If we'd stayed "a colony", we'd probably have emerged with something like Canadian-style Dominion status and self-government in a generation or two, in which case the U.S. would likely have evolved with a Canadian-style Dominion (i.e. federal) parliament based on the British Westminster system.
Parliamentary constitutions are not immune from special-interest lobbying - far from it. But since the governing party by definition has a majority, it is less susceptible to external lobbying: backbench MPs are pledged to vote for their leadership, so lobbying individual congressmen has little point.
When you see that congressmen take more time to get to know their corporate sponsors rather than their constituents, something is wrong.
Since before there was the Congress... the Parliament, which led to the American Revolution to Shay Revolution and I doubt that would be the last of it.
If I'm the candidate for <insert name for some very small political party>, do I get the same amount as the D's and the R's?
Yes, sir. There would have to be some criteria to meet to receive the funds and there would have to be a formula so candidates in more expensive areas get more, but getting money out of politics from both the right-wing and the left-wing is what is needed to finally get DC to work again.
We should also redistrict every district to make them all competitive seats.
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