Kasich breaks pledge and votes for John McCain

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(11-06-2016, 01:58 PM)fredtoast Wrote: A Democracy involves people electing who they want to govern without the government telling them that some people can not get elected because of their last name.

You really need to go back to school if you think electing the son of a former President is the same as a "monarchy".

A Democracy shouldn't be decided by the two people who are capable of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a campaign, and have enough favors and friends high up in order to get them to campaign for you or endorse you.

Oh? You don't have the money to afford a private jet, or the connections to get the President to use Air Force One to fly around the country campaigning? Can't flood the television with ads?

Good luck getting elected then.

In the 2012 Presidential elections, Democrats spent $919.3m and the Republicans spent $885.6m. The government might not tell people they can not get elected because of their last name, but two groups of very powerful and wealthy people make sure you only ever get two choices. That's an Oligarchy.

Sanders tried to challenge it (not even a Sanders supporter) and we saw how that ended. The previous DNC head Kaine became Hillary's VP, the then DNC head (and former Clinton campaign chair) had to resign for rigging to make Clinton win over Sanders (and got a job in less than 24 hours with Clinton again). Then the new DNC head pretty much immediately loses her media job because she was abusing it to help rig for Clinton to win.

Sanders never stood a chance because money and a small circle of powerful people decided he couldn't. That's not Democracy.