Election Thread 2016

[Yoshi]

[Doc Holliday]

Why is Cruz running ads to make you like Clinton?

[Diff-chan]

If Clinton did this she is awesome.

[Doc Holliday]

But she didn't, 'cus she's not. Cruz is running A+ marketing. He almost has my vote, the sick fuck.

[Andrew]

I despise Cruz, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't warming up to him. It's also a sad commentary on what the parties are offering this year that he might actually warrant a second look.

[Andrew]

Yes, Drew said "we should limit campaign financing like these countries" and Andrew's response to Drew was "but those countries have immigration and 'cultural' problems" as if there were a correlation there.

Sorry it took me so long to get back to this. This is what happens when you live on the wrong side of the planet. The board is most active when I'm either asleep or in a morning meeting or something. Anyways.

I wanted to talk about the cultural crises in Europe not because there is a direct correlation, but because I find it interesting and worthwhile to discuss. But if you want to stick to campaign finance, that's cool. The reason we have Citizens United and Super PACs is to counterbalance the hefty influence of labor unions. If you want to throw out the bath water, you have to throw out the baby, too. It's a poison pill for both sides, and it exposes the reality that Sanders is just as bought and paid for as the rest.

Granted, this is all coming from that frothing right-winger Howard Dean, so take it with a grain of salt...

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...democrats-like

[FirstBlood]

All I think is "Wow, Cruz is paying someone a whole lot of money to do some weird stuff with very little oversight."

[Diff-chan]

The reason we have Citizens United and Super PACs is to counterbalance the hefty influence of labor unions.

LOL

[Andrew]

LOL

Interesting point. Thanks for bringing that to the conversation.

[A Robot Bit Me]

Fwiw I would have bought the countervailing union influence argument in the 1950s. But we've since gone from about a third of private workers being unionized to fewer than 7%.

I don't get how anyone can say "but unions" in light of this. Collective bargaining isn't really a thing anymore. Y'all fought for our right to stagnant wages, longer work weeks, and shrinking benefits and won!