Not only has the current Republican minority leader in the House once openly handed out tobacco company bribes on the House floor, but every Republican presidential contender but one is a paid employee of Fox News.
Wow. How the Democrats can lose to these guys is amazing. True, they have amazing writers who tell very seductive stories. And their discipline is amazing, and they have lots of funding to tell their story in lots of places.
But the amount of corporate funding corrupting them is shocking. Maybe the democrats are just as corrupt and I'm blind to it, but it seems like there's less poop in our food and lead in our toys when the liberals are in charge and willing to actually enforce the law.
Sigh. Publicly funded election campaigns seem like a flawed solution, but it's the only remedy I have heard of that might possibly fix things. A third party seems more and more inevitable and I welcome the shakeup, but I don't think it will solve the problems long term. Our country's history of third parties is of a temporary realignment followed by the death of one of the two parties. I don't know which current party will die in a realignment, but ten years later I don't think much will have changed unless we alter the mechanics of our political system.
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