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Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv... by whatshisface on Thursday January 11, 2018 @05:40PM (#16128750)
Both parties are the same in that in neither case should "party" be taken as sufficient evidence of someone being worthy of office. It would improve the quality of your votes if you ignored party entirely and forced yourself to find out what your representatives actually believed.
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Re:House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Priv... by philipov on Thursday January 11, 2018 @07:02PM (#16129254)
It doesn't matter what they believe. What matters is the power structure and incentives/disincentives to which they are subject once they have the job.

Regardless of what they believe, a politician's first priority is reelection, and it is partisan campaign committees that hold the reigns to the resources required for that. Even if you are independently wealthy and can finance your own campaign, you can't accomplish anything in office if you get ostracized by everyone who doesn't have that luxury.

Cooperate with the cartel leadership, or you'll be denied funding, voter data, and committee seats.

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