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eniwetok

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25. the problem with thinking change starts at the local level

Mon Jan 2, 2017, 10:24 AM

Jan 2017

Someone mentioned this before so this is a repost...

Sure this can't hurt for getting new talent into the pipeline and maybe having some agenda issues work their way up... but the idea this is the only way to rebuild the party is naive. It's right up there with those who believe the demographic trends will doom the GOP. What an nutty idea. In the US 45-65% of the voting age population doesn't vote. But they might if someone reaches out to them. Reagan brought in the religious right into the GOP coalition. Trump appealed to blue collar workers who believe they've been shafted by free trade. Nearly 25 years of free trade and finally Bernie and Trump bring it up as a major issue?

The missing variable here is the GOP has an edge the Dems lack... our very antidemocratic nature of the federal system has a GOP bias... as the Bush and Trump Juntas should prove. But it's also in the Senate.

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How are voters ever to learn to be good citizens in an antidemocratic system? [View all] eniwetok Dec 2016 OP

Let's start with going back to basics Retrograde Dec 2016 #1

Several years back? pangaia Dec 2016 #3

I know the argument... but it's deeply flawed eniwetok Jan 2017 #14

Because deist99 Dec 2016 #2

I have my facts straight... eniwetok Dec 2016 #5

Because otherwise we would have no country at all NobodyHere Dec 2016 #8

And the slave states wouldn't have signed on without provisions protecting slavery. n/t JustinL Dec 2016 #9

Sure... eniwetok Jan 2017 #13

so you agree that the Constitution set the politics of 1787 in cement? eniwetok Jan 2017 #10

You do know how this country was put together right? NobodyHere Dec 2016 #4

Exactly forthemiddle Dec 2016 #6

curious definition of "self-governed" eniwetok Jan 2017 #11

We The People... eniwetok Jan 2017 #12

but the Presidency is a national office JustinL Jan 2017 #17

state vs federal eniwetok Jan 2017 #23

we have to stop being victimized by the politics of 1787 eniwetok Dec 2016 #7

Yup, the popular vote was compromised away eniwetok Jan 2017 #15

Serious change starts at the local level. Initech Jan 2017 #16

the problem with thinking change starts at the local level eniwetok Jan 2017 #25

The vote is lost. For good. You won't get it back with voting. McCamy Taylor Jan 2017 #18

PS Democracy died in 2010 with Citizens United. Most folks just didn't realize it at the time. McCamy Taylor Jan 2017 #19

sorry.... CU may not have mattered eniwetok Jan 2017 #21

Forget democratic, is our government today even representative of the people? ck4829 Jan 2017 #20

the only way government can represent the people eniwetok Jan 2017 #26

teach civics...teach civics...teach civics annabanana Jan 2017 #22

what good is civics if the system is not responsive to the People? eniwetok Jan 2017 #24

The crappy electoral system is the core of the US' political failings: DetlefK Jan 2017 #27

our system can create contempt between natural allies. eniwetok Jan 2017 #28