White Beard
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It would be nice to see someone with the balls to run as an independent. Someone like Ross Perot. I did not agree with all of his policy ideas but at least they could be seen clearly without all the cloudy ambiguity enforced by Republicans and Democrats.
The process of nominee/candidate selection has become pathetic and is based more on out maneuvering, cash and behind the scenes back stabbing alliances than clear description of policy and values.
This is a deep one. The two parties have worked together over the years to adapt *everything* to suit TWO parties and ONLY two. They’ve only had a couple hundred years to work on it, but at this point, the structure prevents third-party access. Perot was only able to persist as long as he did because he put a ton of money into it, and cut his losses in the end.
This is the deck-stacking Gry mentions from time to time