20 sats \ 2 replies \ @032f088d51 OP 19 Sep \ parent \ on: RFK pens a great letter to The Economist on 'Bitcoin mining and energy' bitcoin
We have a political system controlled by two private organizations, DNC and RNC.
DNC set up a $1 billion Super PAC (funded by Reid Hoffman) specifically to remove RFK from ballots. They denied him Secret Service despite polling close to 25% at one point, which meant a third of campaign funds went toward security. They kept him in courts for 6 weeks from June to August in every state over ballot access lawsuits to prevent him from campaigning and drain resources after more than 1 million American voters petitioned to put him on every ballot, while DNC nominated a candidate without a single vote.
Anyone who polls above 5% as a third party/independent candidate should automatically qualify for all 50 state ballots and the debate. It used to be like that. After Ross Perot, DNC and RNC changed all the rules and gave themselves the ability to screw over independent candidates.
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It's not about influence. The two parties control who gets on the ballot. That's the corrupt system we have. Unless there's a massive movement, people march to DC and demand change, it's not going to happen. We live in an era when people are conditioned to short attention spans so that kind of sustained pressure to force change is unlikely. The last time it happened was Occupy Wall St. After that, the government passed certain laws to engage in domestic propaganda to control information and actions.
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