The entrenched interests are too well dug in and financed, and I guess people aren't hurting enough to take a good hard look at the two card monte scam the politicians of both parties are running on them.
I'm not quite sure how much more it will take to wake people up. Maybe they can't be.
There’s virtually zero chance of beating a sitting Speaker in primary. It would be nice in this case, but I would guess it’s never happened.
I do agree with you. It looks like this primary season is going to be mostly a bust. The money interests are dumping major money into primaries to protect the favored ones. We should pick up a good one in Nebraska with Sasse, who’s a really good quality candidate. We have not seen very many super high quality candidates this round, and too few who raised the funds needed. Bannon looked like a possibility in NC, but he never got into the needed groove. I was hopeful there with the open seat. Bevin is a great candidate, but is up against too much this cycle against a sitting party leader.
Nothing is going to be fixed at the ballot box and people need to realize that. There are way too many voters who go into the booth ‘uneducated’. Most people do not live and breathe politics like FR members.
“The entrenched interests are too well dug in and financed.”
This is an important point. It’s pretty simple. The people in power are IN POWER. They have the power to stay in power, the link being in power. Why would we think they’d allow themselves to be removed from power? They’re doing quite well the way things are, why would they change the way things are? For the good of the country?
When Jeb Bush becomes the Republican nominee, will we finally give up on reform through policy?