Bumper Sticker today - "Hillary for President 2016"

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23. Money needs to come out of the elections first,

or none of this speculation matters a whit.

This is not a matter of individual politicians and their whims and personalities. It is a SYSTEMIC problem. The system has been rigged and restructured so that nobody who is not in the back pocket of corporations has a chance. With their billions, the oligarchs will select the candidates they want for both parties and destroy anyone else who tries.

If you want real change, the corporate money must come out of the elections before the next campaign. Otherwise we will get more of the same....an election with two candidates who will offer slight variations on the very same agenda: the agenda of the one percent. And once again, Democrats will elect a corporatist and warmonger who will continue to escalate the policies that are impoverishing millions of us....because the only other option will be even worse.

This is the game now. It's reality. And if we care about real change, reform of the purchased system is where all our energies need to be focused.....because in the absence of it, we will continue to get more of the same.

All the hope and excited speculation in the world will not change that.