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Old 09-25-2011, 06:05 AM
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I don't know why we can not have at least one or two quality candidates.
What's on the ballot is what the parties present us.

We have two extremist parties which fight over control of the nation's future, and any candidate which strays too far from his party's position will usually be politically destroyed. The third parties are generally comprised of kooks or otherwise don't have a snowballs chance in hell of successfully fielding a candidate.

Politics is a nasty business, with all the character assassination and backstabbing that goes on and such. The guy who shakes your hand and convincingly assures you of his deep personal concern for you while kissing your baby as well as your ass usually isn't such a nice guy, he can't be and make it in politics.

I believe that to get more than lip service towards meaningfully enforcing immigration law means cleaning out the rat's nests which decide unwritten party policy - both of them.

It has to be negative experience for employers to hire illegals and public employees have to be punished for doling out public services to the illegally present, which mean that politicians have to feel some sort of pain for supporting employers and governmental hacks who do so. That means cleaning out the back room rats who give blessings and marching orders to politicians.

Everyone is focused on the national picture, but in reality it begins with city hall and the county seat, the most unobserved political units in America. Get the small ones, and the big ones fall with them. America was built on the township, and that's how America will be reclaimed by its citizens.
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