- When historians look back at the 2016 presidential elections in the United State and ask the important question: “When did the whole thing turn into an uncontrolled dumpster fire?” the consensus answer will almost certainly be the third weekend of July 2015.
Open mic night for the unelectable seems more appropriate for the Republicans. There's so many of them no one can speak above the rabble so a reality TV star/unrepentant asshole/pathological narcissist is polling at or near the top. Dumpster fire is good, I like mine though. The Dems are kinda like the opening theme of Gilligan's Island. Hiliary... and the rest! Here on campaign '16! That works a lot better in my mind than in practicality. I'm sorry. I'm bored and I don't want to do anything remotely taxing.
You may be interested: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-gilligans-island-creator-sherwood-schwartz-was-saying-about-democracy/2011/07/14/gIQAVVrXGI_story.html Gilligan is the perfect democratic hero because he has no claims to superiority. The Professor has wisdom; the Millionaire has money and social status; the Skipper has a kind of military authority as captain. Gilligan is the pure common man. And, of course, the only time the castaways hold an election, he is chosen as president. Throughout the series, Gilligan represents the triumph of the ordinary over the extraordinary.I wrote that “Gilligan’s Island” reflected the political confidence of 1960s America in the midst of the Cold War. A representative group of Americans could be dropped anywhere on the planet and they would rule, creating a small-scale model of U.S. democracy and fending off a sampling of its enemies, from Soviet cosmonauts to a Japanese soldierstill fighting World War II to a Latin American dictator.
I love it. I am pretty sure I am a vampire who feeds on terrible, terrible politics. Like I'm such a politics nerd. I am a propper fan of politics.
I love reading this because the election in sweden last year was a shitshow. And now it's your turn! But then I get sad because 20% of people were I live are legit neo-facists. But then I think about the time when the neo-facist became 3rd speaker of the house and said that sami people. (The original people of sweden. We put them in reform schools and shit) Aren't Swedish. And people from diffrent parties for days greeted him in our miniority languages.
In Sweden all of the other parties did the cutest thing ever and aeound Christmas had something called the December agreement which was made to limit neo-facist influences. They basically said "we will do everything to stop fascism, it is what we are fighting for. We are a democracy and we will do everything to keep it that way" So no. Sweden/The nordics being multi party has nothing to do with our right wing issues. We have been dealing with them for a long time.
Steig Larsson worked at Expo which is an organisation against racism. Google it, He was unable to marry the woman he loved, because if he did he would have to state his address - and then she might die. She almost couldn't get any money from his books because of it.
I don't know actually. Probably not since another book is being written. Also, I should have known that you would be well aware.
Trump is leading among republicans. I feel like this is cause for concern. Money is influence in American elections, and Trump is willing to burn it all for his legacy. His name has been in American pop culture for decades, and if he wins he'll stamp it on everything like so much urine.
Oh god. Svt (swedish public service) is writing horrified articles about Trump and Jeb and (effing) Walker. (I went to a Madison public school around 2010/2011) Also unions are omni-present in Sweden so Swedish people quite dislike Walker and the Koch brothers.
That's why you see so many initiatives on the ballot during election years. Bush was largely re-elected by people who came to make gay marriage illegal but stuck around to vote Shrub into office.
This is why, if I was elected god by mistake, I'd make the primaries not more than 90 days in advance of an election. I'd also use a constitutional amendment to limit campaign money to only those who are eligible to vote in the primary for the current election. Ban all campaign ads not run and produced by the candidates, but allow parties to advertise. Hell, if we are going full force on this, I'd make us a Mixed party representation system. CGP Grey explains it here. This solves the Gerrymander issues as well. My hope with this election is that the clowns all blow themselves out in a big puff of wind and hot air allowing the adults in the R and D party step in and put someone not insane in the running. I keep thinking about Clinton in 1992; he was a nobody who came out of left field as far as the public was concerned. He did not even announce he was running until October. Hillary will never be president; at this point she is nothing but baggage, she is too old (IMO) and if she wins the nomination, every right wing nut, every conservative, every "not Hillary" person is going to shovel cash at the R who runs against her. Meanwhile I am going to sit over here and not give money to anyone this year. This will be the first presidential run since adulthood that I don't write a check.
Bartcop came up with the most ingeniously simple idea I've yet heard - if you want federal matching funds or run ads on the public airwaves, you have to give 33% of your donations to your opponent (or opponents - a general fund would be easy to set up). If you had to give one million of your three million to the other guy, you'd still have an advantage... but not a massive one like you have now. He's in the same boat. Of course, this was before the Koch brothers really became a thing, but I've always thought there was a brutal simplicity to it...
I am genuinely pumped for election season. Like not even bring ironics. I love politics.
Our election season is getting longer n' better year by year. And political comedy is huge in Sweden so for a comedy and politics nerd our election season is heaven.