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brndnmtthws | 8 years ago

Time to think about a new system of governing.

discuss

order

sctb|8 years ago

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ztjio|8 years ago

How about we actually participate in this one first.

FilterSweep|8 years ago

We haven't had a say in this one for a very long time. We sound like broken records.

TausAmmer|8 years ago

You can voice your opinion, write a blog, write a petition, complain on twitter, create thread on reddit. There is hundreds of platforms where you can participate in political erm, participation. And you will find plenty of people that are in same boat, all of them will participate in participation. And day will be great!

neolefty|8 years ago

We are. And we'll continue to. But it's not working.

awalton|8 years ago

Doesn't work when Russians manipulate our elections (as eye-witnessed by the Dutch: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/report-dutch-spie...) and receive zero punishment for doing so (as almost unanimously sanctioned by both houses of Congress which the President has actively refused to enact sanctions on, defeating the rule of law in this country: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-refuses-impose-new-sanctions-r...). Also doesn't work when the ruling party does everything in its power to dismantle fair elections like gerrymandering, disenrolling voters and passing anti-voter laws.

System's broken, agents at the helm don't want it fixed. And people refusing to act on the actual facts in front of them are what continues to break the system down.

craftyguy|8 years ago

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

brndnmtthws|8 years ago

There are only 100 seats in the US senate. How can 'we' participate in that? There are somewhere around 330 million people in the US, represented by just 100 people, who mostly act in their own self interest. How can one person properly represent on average ~3.3 million people?

What a sham.