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To: cosmicforce who wrote (6366)	2/3/2005 4:30:29 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361478

Thanks for coming. I like power. I love power. When I spot a person that I admire, and can get them to be here with us, and they come, I have power. I love it. It has been a very good day. Sioux

To: cosmicforce who wrote (6366)	2/3/2005 4:42:50 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 361478

Changing the system would take intense trauma, imo. 9/11 sure wasn't enough to do the trick. Our career politicians are too entrenched to risk their lives of privilege. I thought the term limits movement was a good idea, but nothing ever really came from that. Now I think prolonged, intense suffering is the only way things will change, something on the scale of the great depression.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (6366)	2/3/2005 5:10:24 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 361478

re: Does anyone have a different theory why the two party system has produced leaders who are largely cardboard cut-outs for the past 20 years or so? I don't see any end to it and I don't think that Jesse Jackson would have been a good President, nor do I feel that having such a thought in my head automatically makes me a racist. Watching the wimp Democrats straining to stand up to the Neocons, I'm beginning to think that the 2 party system is a failure. Imagine, if you will, 4 parties. The Neocons, the Traditional Republicans, the Traditional Democrats, and the Liberal/Labor parties. If nothing else, the debate would be more lively, and more honest. Getting from here to there is nigh impossible... too much vested power. John

To: cosmicforce who wrote (6366)	2/3/2005 6:53:25 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361478

Biggest problem: "The press is so weakened by being made a profit center of media giants" Press: sucks. Without a strong press, you can't have a democracy worth writing home about. Even now Bush is trying to shut down Al-Jazeera. It's absurd. Supposedly ' liberal' (ROTFLMAO) rags such as the NYTs and the WPost were outed as administration toadies. The Republicans know how important the 'press' is, they're buying it up via the FCC and sometimes even outright. Solutions: 1. VOTE BY MAIL. No tampering, no big lines, no intimidation, no confusion, plenty of time to think about the issues and plenty of time to vote in secret. It's a state-by-state thing, not a federal government thing. 2. 100% Publicly Funded Campaigns. If the US can figure out what 'indecency' is in speech, then it can figure out what a publicly funded campaign looks like. 3. Term Limits. Political mobility in this country sucks.