And electoral politics are to blame?
Did this actually happen OR it happened because you said so?
Would this have been different if a Republican was in charge? Cuomo is nothing more than a corporate Democrat. He works for the same people as Republicans.
Hey, I thought you werenāt gonna respond to me? Man, that didnāt take long.
And what has either party done to significantly change the lives of the public?
Wow so impressed by your argument.
Direct action makes more of a difference. The uptick in unionization wouldnāt have happened if the public waited on politicians.
Or a representative republic as the wealthy and highly successful corporations buy elections with their campaign contributions. That is who the politicians represent. Not the public.
GOOD! The public is composed of a bunch of morons.
You would only get heat from this because of itās sheer stupidity. Corporations have sent plenty of jobs overseas and to Mexico. Not out of survival, but so that those who already have more than enough can have more. Destroying family lives and the state tax base as a result. Then you complain that they arenāt paying taxes. What a rube!
The people we elected are entirely to blame. I donāt see why thatās not understood.
Have you not seen the electricity rates in california since the green energy mandate was signed?
This is irrelevant. The question is aimed at WHO we elect, not what party we elect. This happened in numerous states, but because we elect shitty people with no common sense - these are the outcomes.
And the corporations are made out of thieves dressed in suits. Figuring out another way to scam the public. All the while trying to get politicians to pass bills that puts them out of harms way when illegalities may arise.
You were asked above but didnāt answerā¦If electoral politics is a losing game, what is the winning game we would be playing if we were as smart as @castoli ?
You got me. I completely forgot you were the same troll I responded to earlier. Please forgive me, you all seem quite alike.
Please, continue to put your ideas on display, which are definitely not recycled Marxism at all, but something totally different.
What about their bosses who control them by campaign contributions?
No I havenāt seen this. Who was behind the price spike, if true?
No it isnāt irrelevant it IS the point. Both parties work for the 1%. It is the desired outcome for those who -profit from it.
Itās a simple fix, but impossible to implement.
It doesnāt take a very smart person to realize that the elected officials are more interested in getting re-elected than passing bills to benefit the public.
So, the simple fix is to remove the re-election of anyone in Congress. There would require Amendments to the Constitution. (Not easy)
The House would be an 8 year term. After the 8 years are over you can only run for the office of President.
Repeal the 17th Amendment. Governors would appoint their two Senators for only the length of their own term as Governor, with a maximum of 8 years. They can no longer serve on the Senate thereafter.
President remains the same.
Now there would not be a single Representative or Senator running for office.
In the last half century there has become way too much money in politics. The framers never saw this coming. Politics for profit breeds corruption
Companies exist for profit.
Donāt like how they are doing it?
Start your own.
All I hear is whining and poor me exactly what Iād expect from someone spouting your ideas. A loser mentality.
Well put.
I also donāt get the pushback on voter ID laws. I have to show my ID to buy certain cleaning chemicals at Walmart (gun solvent for one). Shouldnāt one have to prove you live in the precinct one is voting in?
Government gives free or nearly free IDs if one doesnāt have a drivers license.
You mean people only watch out for themselvesā¦ what a novel theory.
When push comes to shove, everyone is out for themselves only.
All about my family and mine - I think that is about everyone I agree.
True. But far too many are still only out for themselves when graze comes to nudge.
Buncha suburban softies, thinking theyāre frontiersman.
In one case, a North Dakota law required that people have street addresses on their IDs to vote. PO boxes wouldnāt count. There was pushback from tribes, not necessarily because they were requiring IDs, but because of what needed to be on the IDs. People who lived in the really rural places that didnāt have street names, house numbers, or even mail delivery service, couldnāt vote. That was pretty much out of their control - they used PO boxes because USPS didnāt come to their communities.
Anyway, Iām not against having an ID to vote, but sometimes the laws donāt quite match the reality of the citizensā circumstances.
That sounds like a poorly written law for sure.
Question because I am ignorant: can members of native tribes living on native land (sorry donāt know the right term) vote in US elections?