and how was the issue dealt with in the days in the founding of the republic?yep, the republican party is the far-right party and the democratic party is the new moderate right.
we desperately need to stop the super pacs and billionaires from funding candidates.
perhaps this would allow a few regular people to get elected. there is something inherently wrong with being a "career" politician.
a career politician is not guided by his or her moral code but rather some idealized image of what the public expects. they are too slick, too aware of the microphone and cameras. so careful that what they say doesn't damage their career.
shapeshifting chameleons morphing into whatever they think the public wants at the moment.
and then they want credibility!
liars and whores, all of them!
voting was a bit of a privilege, property owners could vote and other qualifications were used
that did tend to exclude poor and uneducated
Trump world would find little air there