9th May 2016, 7:57 PM
From the days when Donald Trump was just an obnoxious real-estate owner and reality TV star, not a neofascist xenophobe playing up race hatred to win nomination...
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Personally, I believe both parties need to go away forever so we're forced, as a nation, to really think about who and how we select candidates. Look at what we've got here, two dynasties in a supposedly electoral process. If people were really voting, the odds that the son of a previous president would end up being the next president, or that the wife of a previous president would end up being the next president, would be ridiculously low. There would just be too many other candidates for such a remarkable coincidence to happen. However, here we are. I'm not saying Hillary isn't qualified independently of being married to Bill, but seriously, what are the odds she'd be the number one, if it weren't for that dynastic connection? Same with George Bush II: The Revenge (and, for that matter, the nomination of a Jeb, two individuals who seem to have been "born into" their political careers). I mean, look at that, people are RAISED by politicians to be the NEXT politicians, and it works! How is it they can get away with this if the old message we were taught as kid (You could even grow up to be president!) was actually in any way true?Huh? But having a name and family connection to a popular politician of the recent past is a proven way to get an edge, politically. What do you mean by "if people were really voting"? People have been voting, all year. I wish we had more primaries and fewer caucuses, caucuses are undemocratic and suppress turnout, but people certainly have been voting.