I mean- you can't look at or listen to damn near ANYTHING for all the political ads.
The budget these politicians raise to get elected to get their hands on MORE money (and power) is unreal.
It's all over television and radio- in newspapers- even the public "opinion" page. You can't even answer your phone- unless you have caller ID for all the political robo-calls.
It sucks and Americans just keep voting the same 2 parties in with the same results time after time.
I say restrict any and all political ads on electronic media to the week before the election. Citizens also SHOULD be able to opt out of idiotic robo-calls on their PRIVATE phone lines too.
The bottom line is: there is just TOO much money spent in these political campaigns and simple sheep-bleating won't stop it.
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For many years, my position has been that anyone who has the hubris to actually want to be president bad enough to go through what you have to go through in order to get elected is, by definition, unhinged, and should be prohibited from holding the office.
What we need is a lottery made up of a pool of qualified candidates, all of whom would be elites. Because elites don't just think they are bettter than us...they really ARE better than us. That's what makes them "elite". Because I sure as heck don't want anyone as poorly qualified as me and people I know running this country!
The President and Vice President would be chosen at random by drawing names out of a bucket.
Ideally, we would get an executive who, once in the White House, would do as good a job as they are capable of so that they could be released after 4 years and not required to serve ANOTHER 4 years fixing what they broke.
I like to think that this is what the Founding Father's had in mind, they just didn't articulate it very well.
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