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Originally Posted by baddog
Any of you think that a Rand Paul / Jesse Ventura ticket would be something you could vote for? Are you even an American?
Besides, my question was not directed towards the vice-president. It does not work that way. Paul needs a Congress that would support him. Who should we vote into Congress that will assist him?
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That is precisely the problem with demagogues like Ron Paul and Ross Perot.
Honestly, I would rather see a parliamentary system - you know, the form of government that the US usually has defeated nations implement after a war (like Germany, Japan, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc). Then, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party, etc, could at least get some degree of proportional representation (and their members could gain experience at various levels of government), and they could negotiate as a minority party in forming a coalition government.
The way that money dominates politics in our current political system (made worse by the recent Supreme Court decision that ruled in effect that "corporations - even foreign/multinational corporations - are people", and as such are not subject to campaign spending limits, etc.) is undermining what is left of democracy in this country.
Unfortunately, our current system is mired in gridlock, and is likely to be so for the foreseeable future. The only clear winners are the oligarchy that profits immensely from the dysfunctional system that their political puppets help maintain, keeping the people of this country endlessly divided as they rape the riches from the earth.
ADG