Posted on 04/14/2016 5:36:44 PM PDT by Beave Meister
“Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. senators and congress members.” — Former President Jimmy Carter
(ANTIMEDIA) Denver, CO — The 2016 election has been a wild ride, with two insurgent grassroots campaigns literally giving the political establishment a run for its money. But as the events of this presidential primary season play out, it’s becoming clear the U.S. election — and even more so, the presidential race — is a big scam being perpetrated on the American people.
Events from the last week have exposed the system as an illusion of choice and a farce. They have reinforced at least one study showing the U.S. is an oligarchy rather than a democratic republic.
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The RNC/GOP has been nominating only amnesty candidates since the last amnesty.
It was not accidental.
Does anyone really believe McAmnesty was the choice of Republican voters after TWO amnesty attempts?
Romney? The only guy who could not credibly run against Obamacare because he invented it.
How many times does this need to be posted?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3420720/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3420674/posts
Parties get federal funding for the elections. They are dependent on big government. It is a subsidy of speech with my tax money against my freedom of speech. It is no wonder we cannot find arguments to stop funding Planned Parenthood and other party speech and ideologies to brainwash the young.
Teump is not a savior and probably would not help in that direction, but it is an interesting mechanism that could lead in that direction. Not sure if they will let it happen. An assassination colusion between all parties, terrorists and what not could very well happen
Thanks for posting this article. I didn’t see it before.
Sorry, I posted the title and nothing came up.
Don’t search the whole title; just search on a single word, like “rigged”.
A noble entrepreneur and activist, he finds interest in civil liberties, the drug war, economic justice, foreign policy, geopolitics, government corruption, the police state, politics, propaganda, and social justice. Just to name a few. …Gotta love that Bernabe fellow.
2DV has a point.
But it also shows that 2DV spends a big amount of time on here to know this. I am getting worried about you 2.
Cruz, Rince and the ENTIRE Republican Party promised in 2014 before the election that IF we would give the GOP the Senate, they would repeal Obamacare. They didn’t say maybe. They promised they would repeal it if they took control of the Senate.
Globalism won’t work if people realize and accept this. So globalists must do all they can to keep such speculation and accusations from the eyes of the masses. That’s the reason 2ndD objected.
Ah, but think about the money spent and profits made on building and sustaining the illusion? It’s staggering.
I am convinced that is the only reason to import Islam into your western culture.
(Yes, there are FEC rules for party primaries)
Under regulations established in the 1980s, delegates cannot take money from corporations, labor unions, federal contractors or foreign nationals. But an individual donor is permitted to give a delegate unlimited sums to support his or her efforts to get selected to go to the convention , including money to defray the costs of travel and lodging.
But the influx only proves their perfidy.
I have never seen so much dishonesty at this level. No more caucuses or other shenanigans. Let the people vote for ALL the delegates not 17 out of 71 as in Pennsylvania as an example.
Neither have I.
Seems it goes much deeper that that.
AMERICA FOR SALE?
Let me see if I have this right!
Early American elections have been about competing ideas on how best to guide the country toward the Founders Constitutionally articulated goals and principles . Sadly, more recent electoral contests have become battles between those who wish to more closely adhere to those early goals and those advancing increasingly alien systems of government, some of which seek the outright abandonment of the Founders’ vision.
Both the early and more recent elections have always been about persuading enough fellow citizens to support a candidate’s or party’s position. It’s why there’re called “elections”.
The modern electronic media driven campaigns have raised the cost of getting out the competing messages to a level where only those who have or have access to large sums need apply. And, although we began as a “republic” (the rule of law, i.e., the Constitution), elections are the unavoidable and potentially troublesome democratic aspect of the process for which no one wishing to maintain the remaining freedoms we still enjoy has found a substitute.
With the recent controversy involving “delegate” selection by local and state party elites comes a new and rather frightening development.
Probably due to Trump having upset the “established order”, it seems that campaigns are no longer buying persuasive media to get the word out to the general election voters, THEY’RE BUYING DELEGATES in an effort to stack the deck at the nominating conventions. Since they only have to persuade a few thousand citizens as opposed to trying to reach millions in the general population later, it’s cheaper and they can effectively dictate and limit the choices the general voters will have on election day!
Question: Can someone explain why this isn’t the same thing as bribing members of a jury to secure a desired verdict?
But I’m far less troubled by some miscreant bribing jurors than I am by what’s going on right now as you read this. While the verdict in a rigged jury situation hurts or damages the entity or entities who were the victims of the tampering, the eventual victim of what can only be called delegate tampering is the entire nation and, if an agent of one of those alien systems is the beneficiary of the tampering, will be the very futures of your children and grandchildren!
Have we really become the philosophical eunuchs the Founders feared? Have we really sunk this low?
Please tell me where I’ve got this wrong. I really DO want to be wrong on this one!
D.Bachert 4/14/2016
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