The 2016 United States Presidential Election

This is underway. Thousands have stepped up to run for office. Committing election fraud by changing or purging voter registrations and the like is not 'politics as usual' but criminal felony. Shrugging it off as 'politics as usual' by the press and talking heads is condoning fraud.Voting for Hillary is voting to condone fraud and election tampering. Do we need UN oversight for our elections now? Public Face Hillary promises to enforce regulations against bankers while Private Face Hillary tells the bankers that the ones who know best how to regulate the industry are the bankers.Public Face Hillary switched to oppose TPP, Private Face Hillary will approve it, likely as part of some "deal" with republicans, as she pulls back to incremental changes instead of actual fixes to things like healthcare and minimum wage.Public Face Hillary has big words on her website about protecting Native American rights and helping to solve problems they have. Private Face Hillary is notably silent about the North Dakota Pipeline protests and issues. She also claims that Russians are behind environmental protests ... (funny how it is Russians behind all her problems this time around, not the vast right wing conspiracy).Enjoy

So those opinions are based on made up reality ... right. Again, I won't waste my time trying to convince you of something obvious. Take a breath, relax. Ditto. Do you mean capitulate or do you mean continue the revolution through promoting progressive 'Berniecrat' candidates up and down the ticket -- because that is what I have been doing. It is also why I WILL vote for Jill. Making that decision was very liberating. Who is burning it down? Electing progressive 'Berniecrat' candidates is not burning it down, fighting to regain the senate is not burning it down. When is? Are you a member of your local Democrat party committee? I am, as well as a slew of new progressives here in RI, so that we can implement change at the local level, from party issues to how the primary is run to what role superdelegates should have.

Wrong. DO some research, please. This is DNC propaganda. You have to be blind or willingly ignorant not to see the several times she has responded to these assertions. Or you just take the articles that appeal to your opinion. I have watched many Hillary fans do this kind of thing this year. Cognitive dissonance is alive and well this election year (do I need to mention Trump supporters?My reasons for voting for Stein are purely strategic. I know she will not win, I know that Hillary will win RI, and I cannot vote for her (warmonger, paranoid, two-faced, doesn't have a position that cannot be bought, ... imho of course). But I can support third party growth and a progressive coalition that crosses party lines (see Working Families Party, of which I am also a member, see especially their issues). LOL. What was that you were complaining I was doing? you are funny.You really like to make mountains out of molehills.btw, my psychologist mom always said "just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean you are not being followed."Enjoy

I've lived in Mississippi, where the democrats were to the right of Massachusetts republicans ... and still lost. And I've lived in Indiana and Michigan (west coast evangelical michigan). Now I am in RI and am constantly amazed at the level of democrat control ... but we have a lot of DINOs and republicans that ran as democrats to get elected (after all the state chose to adopt the ALEC voter ID law), but the political battles are now fought in the primaries, not the general. I would say "be careful what you wish for" ... my fear is that she will embrace militarization of police and the NSA and Homeland Security to advance the corporate police state.Certainly if she cannot help win a simple majority in the Senate (4 seats needed) then the DNC will have picked a loser, and we can expect another 4 years of do nothing politics embroiled in one investigation after another.If her coattails do help win a simple majority in the Senate then she better get cracking on appointment approvals, because she will likely lose it in 2018. Again, the DNC would have made a bad decision and will likely fail again to back issues that would bring voters to the polls, just like they did in 2014. Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.IF by some miracle (Donald Trump sinks the GOP across the ballot) dems take the house and get a supermajority in the senate, then she better work on reinstating the Voter Rights Act as priority #1.The problem is that she is SO HATED by republicans that they will vote against her, downticket, even if they don't vote for Trump. They will come out of the woodwork to do this. Those who are comfortable with this election are free to feel so, I have no more energy (in whatever form) to spend on it, but I think it is a new low for the US regardless. Hillary is a 'Nixon Republican' (she has said she considers herself an 'Eisenhower Republican' but got the wrong administration ), she is not a democrat and I don't vote for republicans.Enjoy

So you need a metric that structures people by similar interests. One that would be hard to tamper with and that would be easy to determine.What about using population density to define 'districts' rather than specific areas?What about using income level?Enjoy

Pick representatives by lottery. Everyone that files income tax and is not in jail is eligible. We call those "senators" - they represent their state. Use instant runoff voting eliminating candidates with the least votes until you have two winners.Enjoy

I would argue that they may have short term effect on personal economics, but that they would fuel economic growth that would more than offset this short term sacrifice -- a higher tax on a higher income so that disposable income is still greater.Give that homeless person a job and a place to live and he will be adding to the economy rather than taking from it.I would also argue that we pay one way or another and the choice is how we want to pay for it -- higher wages for low income earners or food stamps to provide them with a living income?enjoy

I think we need to be careful not to accept the media portrayal of Trump supporters. The reason he kept surprising them in the primaries was because they got it wrong from the start and have not reevaluated their position.An interesting read is: How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind :

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It's Not About Red And Blue States -- It's About The Country Vs. The City

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... a "blue" state -- Illinois -- but the state isn't blue. Freaking Chicago is blue. ...

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The Rural Areas Have Been Beaten To Shit

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I know the changes were for the best.

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Try telling that to anybody who lives in Trump country.

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Hard to be thrilled about Clinton when your Trump sign is the most valuable thing you own.

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They're getting the shit kicked out of them. I know, I was there. Step outside of the city, and the suicide rate among young people fucking doubles. The recession pounded rural communities, but all the recovery went to the cities. The rate of new businesses opening in rural areas has utterly collapsed.

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If you don't live in one of these small towns, you can't understand the hopelessness. The vast majority of possible careers involve moving to the city, and around every city is now a hundred-foot wall called "Cost of Living." Let's say you're a smart kid making $8 an hour at Walgreen's and aspire to greater things. Fine, get ready to move yourself and your new baby into a 700-square-foot apartment for $1,200 a month, and to then pay double what you're paying now for utilities, groceries, and babysitters. ...

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Assholes Are Heroes

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You've never rooted for somebody like that? Someone powerful who gives your enemies the insults they deserve? Somebody with big fun appetites who screws up just enough to make them relatable? Like Dr. House or Walter White? Or any of the several million renegade cop characters who can break all the rules because they get shit done? Who only get shit done because they don't care about the rules?

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It feels good to dismiss people, to mock them, to write them off as deplorables. But you might as well take time to try to understand them, because I'm telling you, they'll still be around long after Trump is gone.

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Hit hard by the recession and the bank mortgage collapse, never saw a dime of the bail-out or the recovery, all the recovery and job growth was in the cities. They are the left out and the let down -- by both parties.A number of Bernie supporters also came from this group of people, and this article explains how someone can switch from Bernie to Trump, because the democrats are to busy becoming the new republican party to pay attention to the people. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the democrat party is not going to help these people -- they blame Obama for the last 8 years, where all they got was having to pay more for insurance - in their opinion.Enjoy

What disturbs me is that many people don't think atom bombs are that big a deal, they are just bombs, they blow up a large area and that is it.There are long term effects that would create Chernobyl zones around the blasts making them uninhabitable, and with several hundred bombs in the 5 minutes of such a war (with existing warheads primed and ready to launch) you could "win" the war and lose civilization.The ad does not go far enough to discuss the consequences of such a war.

I always find it fascinating to see people grab on to some aspect of an argument and ignore the message, using that aspect as an excuse to dismiss the information. I think you nailed it Percy. Many times in the article he dismisses his portrayals as knowingly wrong, but that it is emblematic of how urban america seems to rural america.The media portrayal of Trump supporters is KKK supremacists and toothless NRA hillbillies, all educationally challenged. Talk about stereotypes.Hillary dismisses them as "the deplorables" rather that trying to actually understand them or to feel their pain. This is comparable to Romney's 47% comment that showed he was out of touch with the electorate.Those stereotypes are wrong and basing your actions and\or proposed solutions on them are doomed to failure.Enjoy

You are so funny. You haven't yet actually discussed the message of the article, just find excuses to dismiss it.

Whatever you think of the way the article was written, there are points made that need our attention to understand fellow Americans. For me it helped explain how a person could be for Bernie and then switch to Trump when the candidates are so antithetical.Enjoy

... "providing safe zones for civilians." -- the next big lie of the warmongers.

Just when you thought the election couldn't get weirder ... The Libertarian Party Just Gave Up On Winning, Tacitly Endorsed Hillary Over Trump

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The Libertarian vice-presidential nominee, Bill Weld, has accepted that his ticket’s longshot bid for the presidency is doomed, and indirectly demanded that voters give their votes to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton instead. He will remain on the ticket but will solely work towards stopping Trump for the remainder of the election cycle.

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The Libertarian ticket, usually popular with a small margin of voters with a particularly poor understanding of basic economics and the Constitution, were looking like they were going to put up a surprisingly strong performance as Republican nominee Donald Trump dragged the GOP brand into the mud, until a series of inexcusable gaffes by presidential nominee Gary Johnson destroyed what little credibility they had.

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