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CrispyQ

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5. How do we get our government back when the electoral process is as corrupt as ours is?

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Apr 19, 2014, 10:07 AM

Apr 2014

Big money, electronic voting, a compromised media, and an apathetic population. Sadly, the people who can change the process benefit from the current process. I still vote, but I do so with less & less enthusiasm each cycle & very little feeling that my vote makes a difference.

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Study: Popular movements strangled by influence of the wealthy elite in Congress [View all] unhappycamper Apr 2014 OP

Get the Moola Out of Congress, Permanently Demeter Apr 2014 #1

Anyone involved with Wall St is working & investing against us. And yeah, it's "disturbing". raouldukelives Apr 2014 #2

Page said. “If you like the idea of democracy, it’s got to be a little disturbing.” tecelote Apr 2014 #3

Most of us knew that already. zeemike Apr 2014 #4

How do we get our government back when the electoral process is as corrupt as ours is? CrispyQ Apr 2014 #5

By marching in the streets for months and months and..... fasttense Apr 2014 #6

we needed a study to figure this out? Doctor_J Apr 2014 #7

it plays out over and over and over barbtries Apr 2014 #8

Apparently we need to wave checks, not signs. DirkGently Apr 2014 #9

I think it's scary... NoMoSTi May 2014 #10