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Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close? by slededit on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:50PM (#12869523)
Call me crazy, but the ability to chose who to marry or whether or not its permissible to end a life seems slightly more important than Comcast raising their prices again.

Your other issues are quite valid, but I thought that was a very poor lead example.

Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close? by branchless on Thursday November 03, 2016 @10:49PM (#12869998)
It's an example of something the establishment can concede having pretended they care, that has no effect on them. If you care they love it as you will fight harder and longer which keeps you away from things they know will destroy them, like land value tax and questioning how money works.

So it's the ideal example.

Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close? by uabstraction on Friday November 04, 2016 @04:35PM (#12875873)
I completely agree with you dude. I don't mean to imply that these issues are irrelevant. What I'm getting at is these issues are so aggrivatingly clear cut from a personal liberties perspective that they should have been resolved decades ago. Allowing people to marry who they want to, and giving people full autonomy over their bodies doesn't hurt anyone.

Yet we let these issues continue to decide our elections. For the top hat wearing monopolist, it's great because politicians/pundits are so busy campaigning for/against abortion that nobody points a finger at the soul sucking corporations who run this country.