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[–]pointyball 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That is banana republic level thinking. You are saying that the California DNC gets to decide who they want in every position. They just have to remove everyone but their one person from the ballot. 20 years ago I would have said no way that would happen. Cuba is a great example. 98% voting participation for one candidate.

[–]IamRedBeard 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The people are demanding - Demanding - Transparency from politicians and you call that Banana Republic? I think this exerpt from an article sums up nicely why we are actually a Banana Republic now:

" Trump later declared that Article 2 of the constitution affords him carte blanche to "do whatever" he wants as president, without any legal repercussions at any time, from any quarter."

Demanding transparency from elected officials I think, is in fact the opposite of what you are trying to say. That's why it's called 'Public Office' and being a 'Servant Of the People'. Not yourself. You have no privacy as an elected official and you choose that when you choose power in America.

This is nothing but good for the future on the nation.

[–]James_Kuhn3rd 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't like trump. But people only really want accountability when it's the other teams guy. Trump says a lot of stuff, especially on Twitter, but most of the time it's merely fodder for his base and the other team. Very often he dies nothing at all..

The problem I have is the folks citing trump and this article 2 silliness were nowhere to be found when, on numerous occasions, Obama would actually state that he didn't think he had the legal authority to do some of the actions he enacted, a la affordable care act or dreamers act. But everyone fawned over his brave and bold stances.

[–]IamRedBeard 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it is only good if every politician form every party is made to be transparent - that is all. People act like it is a step back when in actuality it is a step forward and overdue.

It just took a fat belligerent corrupt traitorous Wall Street carpet bagging crook to make it passed into a law, that's all.