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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station
It's not just that. There are actually a bunch of legal and social barriers set up to make it difficult for parties other than Republicans and Democrats to run viable campaigns for major offices.
Back in the late 80s and through part of the 90s, I was actively involved with the Libertarian party, including involvement with both gubernatorial and a couple presidential campaigns, and the legal folks were constantly railing about all of the obstacles set up (unfortunately I can't recall the legal details very well; that's not my field) to make it difficult to even get ballot access for example. Maybe things have changed a bit since then--I haven't been actively involved politically for over 15 years now, but when they explained it to me at the time, it seemed ridiculous. Republicans and Democrats had basically stacked the deck to make it very difficult for anyone outside of those parties to have a chance. It wasn't just a matter of money.
I no longer consider myself "just a libertarian" any longer, by the way. I call myself a "libertarian socialist" now, but my views are very idiosyncratic.
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It's also money, if they had the money they would be able to break through those barriers that you are talking about that are legally holding them back. Sure there might be more to the process but money would cure that. They aren't backed by big companies or even little companies. They aren't getting fundraising dollars from voters. They are just in a hard spot monetarily. They don't have the same type of money from Super Pacs to be running efficient ads.
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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station
The only reason I'm defending Trump is that people are attacking him with stupid $h|t. I would and have done the same for anyone, including Hillary.
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You are defending Trump from people that are attacking him with stupid s
hit. The same stupid s
hit that flows out of his mouth every single ****ing day. Good Job. You are just being an a
sshole.
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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station
You could see it as attacking people who are attacking people with stupid $h|t. That's often a theme I follow. I do the same thing frequently with people criticizing music, too.
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that's a dumb trolling thing to be doing.
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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station
(see, this is why you need to vote for Trump, Ki. It would be comedy gold for four years. If Hillary is elected, I'll just be tuning out again.)
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No thanks we don't need comedy gold and there is plenty to make fun of Hillary for. Just tune out starting from today because Hillary will be elected.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
See this is the petty bull**** we're talking about. I'm assuming Donald Trump is not going to wake up on November 9th wondering why everybody's acting like they already voted. People mispeak. It's not necessarily newsworthy, especially when it only involves an extra 2.
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This isn't just an issue of misspeaking one time. He misspeaks all the ****ing time then.
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Originally Posted by Goofle
Nice video detailing many of my issues with Hillary. But f*ck her lame ass thread. #Trump4Prez baby.
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You don't have to live here if Trump was ever to become president so you shouldn't get a damn say about anything related to this.