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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy all the unreasonable demands? You can't really expect unicorns, rainbows or fair elections.
Now quit whining. Sheeeze.
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Why all the unreasonable demands? You can't really expect unicorns, rainbows or fair elections. (Original Post)
Scuba
Mar 2016
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astrophuss42
(290 posts)1. In fact, just quit
You lost last week!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,587 posts)4. F*ck that.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)10. Why don:t you knock it off?
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)2. I completely understand the upset in AZ
but a petition to the NY Gov to try & change election laws just prior to the primary, in a closed primary nonetheless, way after the cutoff to change affiliation is just nonsense.
JustAnotherGen
(31,780 posts)3. Is someone whining about the Republican Candidates?
We know they are awful - what is there to whine about? That's just fair analysis.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)6. don't know wanna ask John McCain
if he's Republican or Democrat. should be interesting if he shows up as a democrat
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)5. This is just the way things are done, get used to it...
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)7. yeah
say good bye to Democracy.
Orrex
(63,172 posts)11. This is the way things have always been done in the US.
And we've been used to it for over two centuries, alas.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)12. Losers gotta cheat. Liars gotta fib. Thieves gotta steal.
Orrex
(63,172 posts)13. I'm not sure that it qualifies as cheating...
They wrote the rules, after all.
It would be nice if the Founding Fathers had set up a democracy instead of this for-the-rich system that they put together.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)14. Aye-Yiy-Yiy-Yiy-Yiy.
Orrex
(63,172 posts)8. I'm only here so that I can have a foot in the door before the thread is locked.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)9. Fair elections are for other countries.
Here in America we are supposed to check the box the pundits tell us to and then shut the fuck up.