9th May 2016, 8:49 PM
That's my point exactly. Having a family connection may be a "proven way to get an edge", but it SHOULDN'T be! It's a stupid way to pick someone, and it's one the US supposedly abandoned when they rebelled against the British Crown!
It's not the "voting" part that's in doubt, it's the "people" part. The two big companies (sorry, "parties") currently in charge of US politics always end up deciding exactly who we get to pick from, and how we go about picking from them. These primaries are unique in that they've gone on for about a thousand years now and let far more states than usual actually get a say, but that say is "tainted". Way too many are picking the candidate they think will "win" the primary instead of the one they actually WANT to win the primary. It's insanity.
Regardless of whatever else happens, I'm very much convinced that the system is broken and in dire need of repair. A start would be flushing the two parties away and starting fresh. It'd force us as citizens to take a much more active role. Sometimes, you need destruction of something before something new can be built.
P.S. That photo is a big example of the problem. There's "the elites" and then there's us. When was the last time someone born into poverty actually won one of these things?
It's not the "voting" part that's in doubt, it's the "people" part. The two big companies (sorry, "parties") currently in charge of US politics always end up deciding exactly who we get to pick from, and how we go about picking from them. These primaries are unique in that they've gone on for about a thousand years now and let far more states than usual actually get a say, but that say is "tainted". Way too many are picking the candidate they think will "win" the primary instead of the one they actually WANT to win the primary. It's insanity.
Regardless of whatever else happens, I'm very much convinced that the system is broken and in dire need of repair. A start would be flushing the two parties away and starting fresh. It'd force us as citizens to take a much more active role. Sometimes, you need destruction of something before something new can be built.
P.S. That photo is a big example of the problem. There's "the elites" and then there's us. When was the last time someone born into poverty actually won one of these things?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)