@Garban Saddly, no I don't. But it should focus our attention on maintaining our independent systems of checks and balances. It is unfortunate yhat we have pretty much lost two that we need to reclaim...Freedom of the Press, and the political independence of the Supreme Court.

@Garban Maybe the kid's trying to warn about Ice Nine?

@Garban

OK, let's put this in perspective. Trump never spoke in full sentences and often changed his sentence direction and meaning as he went along. He still does that and his handlers want him to avoid testimony in court on anything. Then we have those that told me from day one that Obama could not speak in full sentences.

Our current adhoc system is the Candidates play to the Voters until they are elected, then they pivot to represent the Plutocrats.

It will take a dozen years of focused and careful work to "fix" the d$A and make it something of value. That being said, we are better than the Red menaces of this world.

@Reignmond The sad thing is that most Americans never catch on to the bait and switch you describe above. And of the ones that do, most of them simply quit voting, once they realize it makes no difference with the two major parties. If only a majority of the voters would figure out the scam AND start voting for third party candidates who aren't already bought and can't be bought, then we could actually get our democracy back from the plutocrats. But even then, I fear, they would institute a military crackdown and a coup before they would allow the voters to regain control of the federal government instead of the plutocrats.

@TomMcGiverin It sure dies get frustrating. I find that in the last 15 years I simy can't vote for any Republicans, but I am also disatisfied with Democrats. I really want to totally change our entire election system.

@Reignmond If we had ranked choice voting, where third party candidates would not be taking away votes from major party candidates, and thus being labelled a spoiler, then people would freely vote third party and we could get rid of the duopoly. But the major parties would never allow this, even tho it would greatly increase participation in voting, since voters would no longer have to choose the lesser evil. They could vote their first choice, second choice, etc... As it stand, the only way we dump the duopoly is a majority of eligible voters getting over their demoralization, ignoring the corporate media and the propaganda of the major parties, and voting in a third party government in DC.

@TomMcGiverin It seems the only way we are able to vote anymore is Evil.

@dalefvictor Yup, a shit sandwich in which we only get a choice over the flavor of shit and how much is in the sandwich. Of course, the more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat, at least in our American system of capitalism.

@TomMcGiverin I like tomatoes, cheese, and lettuce on my shit sandwiches. Might as well dress them up.

@TomMcGiverin I have a suite of changes I want to our voting system. Very briefly; get rid of all campaign contributions and any "gifts" to candidates. Eliminate all political parties. Let every candidate run on their own policies, merits, and history. Voting to be through an elimination system (like sports playoffs). This way when we have a large number of candidates each round of voting would eliminate half the candidates, and the winners would then have another chance to plead their case to the American people. It is sort of like ranked voting, but gives voters more direct involvement and a change to reconsider their choices.

@Reignmond Good luck on eliminating campaign bribery and gifts to pols. Lots of legal precedents would have to be overturned and it would take a constitutional amendment.

@TomMcGiverin None theless it is what is needed. All forms of bribery need to be eliminated as much as possible.

I think Dems should switch tactics to outlawing militias. They were outdated the minute a standing Army was created so let's outlaw them.

@rainmanjr I do not know, it seems to me that by allowing militias we get the names of people who would stand against the government. Though standing against the government may be a good thing, standing against the people and the Constitution never is. If they stand against the Constitution then it is just a manner in which opposition to the COnstitution can get grouped together and dealt with once they decide to attempt a takeover.

I hope this does not make you sick, but wouldn't the people be better off if we could all carry miniguns and a million rounds of ammo around all the time. We could bear arms and shoot the shit out of everything. Once the ammo is gone the gov't should be responsible for providing more. Would that make these people feel better? Just think how safe we would all be.