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jeepers

(314 posts)
7. Not everything.
Fri Nov 14, 2014, 09:12 PM
Nov 2014

What I noticed in this last election beside the general consensus that the young stayed away from national and executive races and showed up for the issues was that voting on the issues was largely due to referendum and initiatives petitions, a direct democratic vote.

Maybe it was only the young but while the voter doesn't show any confidence in this plutocratic opera of ours to represent them they trust that their vote in a direct democracy does matter.

After Obamas now you see it now you don't campaign and presidency, even if you could sell a progressive plank to the Democratic party and get lip service from them, I doubt that an intelligent electorate will fall for a sales pitch coming from a corporate workhorse such as Hillary.

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