How come the Republicans and Democrats get to use the taxpayer’s buildings, utilities and voting machinery. To hold Political PARTY activities i.e. PARTY Primaries? Are the duopoly PARTIES a creation of or part of established elected government worthy of milking the taxpayer’s dime to bolster, support and embellish the PARTY royalty? Why don’t the duopoly PARTY hacks have to finance and supply their own PARTY operations? Where are the taxpayer financed, supported and embellished PARTY operations in the United States like primaries for the other several Political PARTIES?
The Republican and Democrat Parties are over a century old each. They have enormous grass roots organization throughout the country.
Is this so hard to understand?
They control Congress. They are lobbied by special interests, who pony up millions in campaign contributions in return for favors. Is that so difficult for you to grasp? It's the most perfect example of human nature you'll ever find.
Because they do not desire to lose that enormous power, they make it almost impossible for a third party to gain a foothold. Why would they deliberately give such power away? And why would they EVER agree to term limits when they are able to make so much money and have so much power as long as they are in office?
These are human beings. They are as fallible and corrupt as anyone.
They want to make a lot of money. They vote themselves raises. Do you think they will some day vote for less money for themselves? Do you think they'll agree to a bill called upon by a conservative President for a pay cut? What if a President signed an executive order cutting Congress's salaries by even one tenth? Think they won't find a way and a court to bring a lawsuit to overturn such a thing? Hell, THEY ARE MOSTLY LAWYERS. Think they don't know how to do that?
We have to pay taxes whether we like it or not. We have no control over what the political class does regardless of who we send to Washington.
I hate to sound like a buzz kill, but that's the way it is set up.
It's unfair. It's VERY corrupt.
But it existed long before any of us were even born.
Put yourself in their place. Would YOU give up such power and such money?