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(32,139 posts)Lying through campaigns has become routine, as has avoiding the most important issues altogether. Maybe we can't address the former, but we can fight the latter, at least.
IMO that's one of the sickest, most disturbing aspects of our current politics: the detaching of party loyalty from issues and the removal of some of the most important issues from public debate and the election narratives altogether.
If this election is going to be about populism...about wresting the country back from these oligarchs and returning it to the people, then this is the time to point out this sick trend in our "representative" elections.
We need to make the avoidance of issues an issue and demand that the candidates speak clearly and in detail about the TPP, the TISA, the NSA, the Patriot Act, the wars, whistleblowing, civil liberties....
At least get the lies on record.