Re:It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change
by pjc50 on Monday August 12, 2019 @08:22AM
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> OWS could not effect change because it was not created by the people, it was not grassroots. It was a funded operation of political operatives.
There is zero evidence for this and it's basically a smear of the "everything I don't like is funded by Soros" category.
> US politics cannot change until two party rule is not the only outcome
This on the other hand is very true.
Re:It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change
by zuuow on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:04AM
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>Soros
Strawman/10
Re:It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change
by willis936 on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:52AM
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People who make the rules aren’t going to want to change the status quo. Getting money out of politics is hard and I would argue it would be hard to treat it as the first step. Removing the two party system is an attainable goal prior to removing money from politics. Those in control could believe it is acceptable to have the will of the people more accurately represented through a majoritarian voting system.
The Tea Party however was grass roots but it took less than twenty years for the Republican party to co-opt it. Before then both they and the Democrats demonized it. Why? Because it took control from the two parties that run the show.
Now the Democrats have a very nascent uprising of their own that they are desperately trying to smother. hopefully it lasts a bit longer than an election cycle or two.
US politics cannot change until two party rule is not the only outcome and this can only come to fruition by having campaign finance reform that blocks incumbents from the gravy train they have and removing restrictions on those seeking to unseat them. As in, the rules have always been written backwards - they always have been written to maintain the status quo and that is the lie that needs to be ended.