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Honestly the progressive Tea Party could just be the 'Voter Turnout Party' and get most of what they want
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# ? Sep 11, 2015 21:57 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 11:22 |
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vote-by-mail and no awful ID laws in every state would be a drat good start
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# ? Sep 11, 2015 22:02 |
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re-gerrymander all districts to be identical squares
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# ? Sep 11, 2015 23:16 |
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reorganize the states using baseball
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# ? Sep 11, 2015 23:17 |
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EugeneJ posted:Remove the nonprofit status of churches. Tax them as businesses. Along with mosques & synagogues, sure.
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# ? Sep 11, 2015 23:19 |
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Implementing any non-first past the post system on a local level would help immensely. Before that we'd have to start unseating Dems in places with little GOP presence. The Socialist Alternative got a seat with the latter strategy in Seattle, although they're up for re-election this year. Independent civic groups (unions, BLM groups, for example) to force politicians to act on specific issues dodge the election issue entirely but would have substantially less power. why does full communism have to be so hard
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# ? Sep 12, 2015 04:38 |
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Abner Cadaver II posted:vote-by-mail and no awful ID laws in every state would be a drat good start Glenn Zimmerman posted:Implementing any non-first past the post system on a local level would help immensely. Before that we'd have to start unseating Dems in places with little GOP presence. The Socialist Alternative got a seat with the latter strategy in Seattle, although they're up for re-election this year. if the massive teacher protests that are happening now end well, those socialists are definitely getting re-elected. if not they might get re-elected more
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# ? Sep 12, 2015 08:45 |
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# ? Sep 21, 2015 18:17 |
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copy posted:i think the biggest thing to change is how we as a society engage in the political process. for example i think that we need to figure out a way to eliminate the overbearing sense of despair people have wrt voting in america. following that we need to turn that into increased voter turnout. also like you said we need to be concerned with all levels of government, not just the presidency. Why do people think it's despair and not just plain old apathy and not giving a poo poo. Seems to be wishful thinking rather than actual reality. Most people don't even think about politics ever- I think that's something wonks on the 'net often forget.
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# ? Sep 21, 2015 19:35 |
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:Why do people think it's despair and not just plain old apathy and not giving a poo poo. Seems to be wishful thinking rather than actual reality. because I've registered people to vote as a job. The most common refusal response was "I don't trust politicians" or "they're all corrupt", and I only rarely heard "I don't care about politics". And in those cases I think they would care about politics if they thought it could have any positive impact on their lives.
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# ? Sep 21, 2015 19:39 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 11:22 |
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:Why do people think it's despair and not just plain old apathy and not giving a poo poo. Seems to be wishful thinking rather than actual reality. Most people don't even think about politics ever- I think that's something wonks on the 'net often forget. There's a big difference between not caring about elections and not caring about politics.
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# ? Sep 21, 2015 23:05 |