Reply #12: Well, since an authentic political party would be built from the ground up, us. [View All]

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The leaders that we get are partly the result of campaign finance corruption and partly the result our own disengagement from the issues and the processes. Recall that only about 50% of eligible voters actually vote.

It's not just our leaders who won't say anything that might upset anyone, it's also most of us, or if some of us do say stuff, we say it in a way (personal insults and few if any facts) that makes it possible for our opposition to justify demonizing and ignoring "Those angry, rude, bitter people over there who want to take our money away from us."