choomer
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But the electoral college is not the subject of this thread.<snip>
As I've tried to explain before, the Electoral College and Glass-Steagall, Smoot-Hawly, Bartles and Jaymes are not related and should not be used as comparative fodder. Debating the merits of Electoral College is what I'm after.
I would figure you'd know this if you read my original post. Why would you be the first to comment on a topic that you admit is not what you want to talk about?
Perhaps you should start a thread about the electoral college. Is that too much of a stretch?
That started off so good and then went straight into financial campaign contribution legislation and political parties.And I agree, media is a fucking sham, it's literally become yellow press governed by the bottom dollar. And it's a fucking shame. Just as politics has been a bottom dollar business for eons. It needs to stop.
And electing Republicans into office will most assuredly not help us with that cause, as they were the ones who passed Citizens United. And we are already seeing the absolute fleecing the Trump presidency is bringing to the American people.
As I said, and you seem to agree to, it's hard to talk about news and not bring politics into it.
I even laid the one of the major causes of my OP directly at the feet of a republican president for interference with the Fairness Doctrine formally adopted as an FCC rule in 1949 and repealed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan’s pro-broadcaster FCC.
Any political party can do extreme damage if the news won't warn us about it and that much informational control should never be in so few hands as it's been proven to both of us that it is not impartial.
If we worried about reinstating repealed legislation as well as repealing legislation it might do us both good.