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    Overwhelming Majority of Americans Believe that Both Parties Are Too Corrupt to Chang

    Overwhelming Majority of Americans Believe that Both Parties Are Too Corrupt to Change Anything … “This, In Fact, Is A Revolution”

    Posted on February 8, 2016
    by WashingtonsBlog

    Why Americans Are Backing Trump and Sanders Over the Mainstream Candidates Backed By the Political Machines

    We’ve previously noted that polls show that Americans are in a “pre-revolutionary” mood, that less than 1 in 5 Americans think that the government has the “consent of the governed”, that government corruption tops the list of Americans’ fears (gee, we wonder why), and that 3 times as many Americanssupported King George during the Revolutionary War than support our OWN Congress today.

    You might assume that such statements are over-the-top … or that the results come from partisan pollsters.

    But a group of Republican and Democratic pollsters and political strategists reviewed polling data last week, and revealed some stunning results:


    • 84% of all Americans believe political leaders are more interested in protecting their power and privilege than doing what is right


    • 81% percent believe the power of ordinary people to control our country is getting weaker every day as politicians of both parties fight to protect their own power and privilege


    • 80% believe the federal government is its own special interest primarily looking out for itself


    • 79% of all voters believe we need to recruit and support more candidates for office, at all levels of government, who are ordinary citizens, rather than professional politicians and lawyers


    • 78% believe that the Democratic and Republican Parties are essentially useless in changing anything, because both political parties are too beholden to special interests to create any meaningful change


    • 76% of Americans agree with the statement that America cannot succeed unless we take on and defeat the corruption and crony capitalism in our government


    • 75% believe that the US government is NOT working for the people’s best interest


    • 75% believe that powerful interests have used campaign and lobbying money to rig the system for themselves


    • 74% see the biased and slanted coverage of the media as part of the problem


    • 72% of Americans believe the U.S. has a two-track economy, where most Americans struggle every day, where good jobs are hard to find, and where huge corporations get all the rewards


    • 72% believe that the reason families in our middle class have not seen their economic condition improve for decades and economic growth is stalled is because of corruption and crony capitalism in Washington


    • 71% believe our government is not only dysfunctional, it is collapsing right before our eyes


    • 70% believe the government in Washington does not govern with the consent of the people


    • The majority – 56% – say they wish there were a third party with a chance of success to fight for their interests


    • Only 15% say the “values and principals of my political party are so important that I strongly prefer to vote for the candidates of my party…”


    They concluded:
    The country [is] in a prerevolutionary moment.
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    This election could mark the beginning of the end of two-party duopoly in the United States.
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    The people believe the real struggle for America is not between Democrats and Republicans, but between mainstream America and the ruling political elites of incumbent politicians, lobbyists, big business, big unions, big banks, big special interests and the big media. [The people are correct.]
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    The power elite asks, “When will this be over?” Although this is seen as a chaotic and temporary situation by most of the political and media establishment, our research shows a strong, evolving tidal wave of discontent and growing pressure for real and dramatic change.
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    Real change is what that the establishment fears most and fights hardest against. It is ultimately a losing battle.
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    This, in fact, is a revolution.

    http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/...evolution.html

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    Our city, here on the West Coast is in utter crisis as well, although the politicians don't really acknowledge it. The current mayor will not seek re election, probably due to unpopularity. We have been on a building boom, but the land for individual homes is almost non existent or way overpriced so nearly everything now is rentals. Thousands and even tens of thousands, But the rents are sky high, so they are trying to bring in strict rent control and limit types of housing. Essentially socialism. But the new renters are very discontent and probably can only move to far out suburbs---where 'progressives' have fought off infill and transportation projects for decades. We have gridlock on the roads, but they will shoot down proposals to do anything about it. And if history repeats itself, unless the renters have some secret stash or trust fund, they may not even be able to save up for downpayments on homes,anyway.

    But even with the construction boom, the construction jobs have been snapped up by illegals, assisted by sanctuary type policies. The state helps them out, despite overwhelmingly popular measures passed by voters to restrict them. The homeless camps are everywhere, because the illegals have taken the odd jobs; and homeless people have moved in here, attracted by assistance programs from the government. Even in winter there are large camps; just wait until summer.
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    The problem is the "two party system". It is a parasite structure on government propped up by a voter registration system that asks for party affiliation for voter registration.

    The solution is to make it a federal crime to ask what your party affiliation is for purposes of voter registration. It really is none of government's business what your political party is. We are already seeing premonition of this possibility in the "decline to state" option for voter registration forms here in California.

    The consequence of this would be the end of the primary elections. If the government cannot keep records of party affiliation, then it cannot run party nomination elections for the political parties as it does now. We already seeing a trend towards this here in California in the so-called "open primaries", another legal and principle absurdity whereby the voters can vote for any of the political party candidates in the primaries.

    Once elections for party nominations are returned to the political parties, then political party members would begin to have a serious interest in who represents them in these nomination elections. In fact, it would not even be necessary for political parties to hold elections for nominees if the members of the political parties did not want to.

    Then we could go back to having real elections based on nominees from political parties and anyone else who wanted to run for the position who did not want to align themselves with any political party.

    The was Trump's problem, he surrendered his candidacy for president as an individual and signed up with the Republicans. Why? The two party system and the primaries.
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