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No, I voted for Bernie Sanders and progressive down ballot candidates, champions of working class folks, not the donor class. You supported Trump and various puppets of the donor class and believe you are on their team in some twisted way as they get ready to serve Goldman Sachs and the big money donor class and stick it to the working class.
I voted for Sanders. He did not lose because of money. He lost because of corruption.
I have (or I helped). We had no money and ran a gay Libertarian in WV and still got more than 1%.
So you didnt even try to run in a D primary. If you ran in a general senate or congressional race and had won the libertarian primary, then you get votes simply as a result of having name recognition as the libertarian candidate! The donor class crushes the opposition regardless!
It doesn't matter unless it is 60 - and that assumes lockstep voting by Republican senators which is not a given. On the other hand, it might make sense to just let Republicans pass whatever they want: a national bathroom law, for example or repeal Obamacare with no workable replacement, or privatize social security and start a coupon discount program to replace medicare. Give them the rope they need to show the country what they truly stand for and they can hang themselves with it.
Oh it matters a great deal. The Democrats got rid of the filibuster requirement for all nominees except USSC nominees. That's going to come back to kick them in the face when Trump's nominees come up for confirmation as they're now virtually powerless to stop any of them except Mattis who needs a waiver of the 5-year-wait requirement to head up the DoD. That also means Trump can pack the lower courts with his nominees for at least the next 2 years -- probably 4 as the 2018 Senate race is looking like a difficult one for the Democrats. Finally, the reconciliation process which is filibuster-proof can be used to repeal key elements of Obamacare.
So you didnt even try to run in a D primary. If you ran in a general senate or congressional race and had won the libertarian primary, then you get votes simply as a result of having name recognition as the libertarian candidate! The donor class crushes the opposition regardless!
I voted for Sanders. He did not lose because of money. He lost because of corruption.
P.S. you didn't vote for Sanders in the general.
I did vote for Sanders in the general.
But all of this is meaningless. People are obsessed with the presidential spectacle which is not in any way representative of the political races around the country. Claiming that a celebrity billionaire winning the presidency is proof that money and name recognition is not crucial in politics and that we should eliminate the remaining restricitons on bribe money in politics is absurd.
Well, you want to see the corrupt system of campaign finance expanded further. Whats so great about that? Trump of course loves it, the GOP and their puppet masters love it.
But all of this is meaningless. People are obsessed with the presidential spectacle which is not in any way representative of the political races around the country. Claiming that a celebrity billionaire winning the presidency is proof that money and name recognition is not crucial in politics and that we should eliminate the remaining restricitons on bribe money in politics is absurd.
No one claimed named recognition wasn't important.
Well, you want to see the corrupt system of campaign finance expanded further. Whats so great about that? Trump of course loves it, the GOP and their puppet masters love it.
The (D)'s are taking in and spending as much if not more than the (R)'s.
No one claimed named recognition wasn't important.
Try to get state-wide name recognition without any money then.
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