Learning from crime

[FluffyMcDeath]

Watch this and then answer the question...

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how many competing parties are there in your political system?

 

[faethor]

Laws make actions illegal. There are no laws disallowing corporations from controlling our political system. Therefore, it's all legal and above board. See how easy this is.

 

[cecilia]

unfortunately the courts made it legal for corporations to control political parties

I hate those bastards

 

[Glaucus]

The irony is that the people elected Bush who appointed Roberts to the supreme court. If the people elected a Democrat the ruling would have gone the other way. However, this may be the last time you can blame it on the people.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

The irony is that the people elected Bush who appointed Roberts to the supreme court. If the people elected a Democrat the ruling would have gone the other way. However, this may be the last time you can blame it on the people.

The Supreme Court appointed Bush, who then appointed Roberts. "The People" played a role but not a decisive one.

 

[faethor]

The Supreme Court appointed Bush, who then appointed Roberts. "The People" played a role but not a decisive one.

The people elected Reagan. Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Conner. Sandra Day cast the deciding Bush election instead of rejecting it and sending it back to the State. Bush appointed Roberts.

It's actually interesting to see how well Reagan screwed up the system. There's turning the world's lead lending nation into the world's leading borrower. There tripling the borrowing of all previous presidents combined. There's the largest tax hike in US history. There's combing the Religious nutters with the conservative economic Republicans. There's the end of the FDR polices which brought us to the largest economic power evar. There's the start of the middle-class decline. Along with that there's 30 years of damage from a supply side economic policy.

Republicans and Tea Baggers are to the most part surprisinly quiet. Do they realize what their lip service to Judical Activism and States Rights has wrought?

 

[ltstanfo]

Republicans and Tea Baggers are to the most part surprisinly quiet. Do they realize what their lip service to Judical Activism and States Rights has wrought?

Well, if it makes you feel any better, Sandra Day O'Conner was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on CNN yesterday and one of the questions he asked about was in fact the BUSH/GORE decision. The former justice was quite solid in her response:

"It was a hard decision to make. But I do know that there were at least three separate recounts of the votes, the ballots, in the four (Florida) counties where it was counted," she said. "So I don't worry" about her vote in the case since she believes it would not have changed things. "The man who got the most votes" became president, she said flatly. "That's what it comes down to at the end of the day."

There now, don't you feel better? :wink:

Regards,
Ltstanfo

 

[Robert]

how many competing parties are there in your political system?

Only two that have a realistic chance of winning and you'd struggle to tell them apart.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

how many competing parties are there in your political system?

Only two that have a realistic chance of winning and you'd struggle to tell them apart.

Exactly. And it seems that a market of two isn't a market at all.

 

[Robert]

how many competing parties are there in your political system?

Only two that have a realistic chance of winning and you'd struggle to tell them apart.

Exactly. And it seems that a market of two isn't a market at all.

And this is one of the reasons I think Scotland would be better off leaving the UK.