• @Gradually_Adjusting
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    187 months ago

    I don’t think anybody actually wants our elections to be perpetual. I imagine it’d be easy to fix, except for the fact that longer elections cost more and this means the richest have more sway. I bet they’d resist.

    • @[email protected]
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      66 months ago

      That, plus like everything else in America, an entire business has sprung up around running federal elections. Longer campaigns require more staffers, strategists, pollsters, advertisers, etc. It’s a billion dollar industry unto itself.

    • @[email protected]
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      67 months ago

      Time to stop handing control of society to rich people who lack experience of being a normal human being.

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        36 months ago

        It was time for that fifty years ago, but today would be fine too

      • @Anticorp
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        6 months ago

        Nobody handed it to them, they took it thousands of years ago and have had it ever since.

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      Honestly, if it wasn’t one of the most powerful and influential countries of the world, it would be helluva entertainment. I’d invest in popcorn stocks.

      On the other hand, if it wasn’t one of the most powerful and influential countries in the world nobody would care.

    • @Anticorp
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      46 months ago

      I think the parties and the companies that own them want the elections to be perpetual, to keep us distracted and fighting each other. It also gives the companies a lot more time to bribe donate to candidates.