• anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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    24 hours ago

    The way that the parties used to control nominations helped keep ideologues out, and deal makers who knew how to play along in.

    Then the tea party and money in politics went insane and now we have the dumbest Congress people and a somehow even dumber President.

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      People thought the smoke filled rooms that gave us Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Goldwater were the most corrupt thing and what we needed was more democracy.

      And 2 generations later we got trump.