6th June 2016, 9:53 AM
I don't recall any mention of "parties" in the constitution.
There's that contradiction again. You want to say parties aren't government bodies (they aren't) but that they should be a completely indispensable part of how the government functions. Is that it? Doesn't that sound like a bad idea? I mean, it really does feel like two secretive groups have been theatrically fooling us all into thinking we have a say and just picking our candidates behind the scenes. Too much of it all is being controlled by a bunch of corrupt officials. The more I see "behind the curtain", the more I hate how it works now. So tell me, in all honesty, if the democratic party died tonight and was replaced by a super-progressive party that more aligned with your own views, would you consider that a good change?
There's that contradiction again. You want to say parties aren't government bodies (they aren't) but that they should be a completely indispensable part of how the government functions. Is that it? Doesn't that sound like a bad idea? I mean, it really does feel like two secretive groups have been theatrically fooling us all into thinking we have a say and just picking our candidates behind the scenes. Too much of it all is being controlled by a bunch of corrupt officials. The more I see "behind the curtain", the more I hate how it works now. So tell me, in all honesty, if the democratic party died tonight and was replaced by a super-progressive party that more aligned with your own views, would you consider that a good change?
"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)