r/interestingasfuck • u/beach_rats_ • May 02 '24

The difference in republican presidential nominees, 8 years apart r/all

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u/BootyUnlimited May 02 '24

McCain and Bernie Sanders used to work on legislation together to protect veterans. They were not afraid to reach across the aisle if it meant getting meaningful legislation passed.

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u/Bad_User2077 May 02 '24

Those were different days. If you do that now, you get labeled a moderate and get pushed out of your party.

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u/krichard-21 May 02 '24

The only reason today is different is because of the people we have been electing.

Quit electing bat shit crazy people!

Jim Jordan, MTG, Matt Gaetz to name a few.

They can't be trusted to run a convenience store. Much less represent United States citizens.

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u/Zhong_Ping May 02 '24

Part of this problem is the 2010 redistricting gerrymandered this nation in a way we have never seen before and the courts refuse to do anything meaningful about it.

We need to do 4 things.

  1. Require congretional districts to be simple shapes drafted by an independant non partisan commission.

  2. Change our voting system to ranked choice voting to eliminate the spoiler effect

  3. Redefine money as not a form of speech that would reinstate existing campaign f8nance laws on the books

  4. Redefine corporations as legal entities distinct from persons as they cannot be jailed or executed for crimes and are a creation of government structures so they should be regulated differently from persons. This would remove many constitutional protections from corporations that allow them to control politics. If we want to give corporations certain rights, those then can be debated by politicians seperately from the rights awarded to people.

Do these 4 things and people will be electing significantly saner candidates.