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If this is what you think about allowing every citizen vote for any candidate in office — thus — wanting to *restrict* it to only people who pay taxes — I don’t think you’re going to get anywhere with that idea.

We had it. ...21, and a property owner. were part of voting requirements when the Republic was yet young.

Of course not now, we already have enough people wanting that 'pie' to outvote anyone who would propose such a thing. Further, there is absolutely nothing in the Constitution which empowers the Government to be handing out all that 'pie', Incumbents were not supposed to be able to buy votes with the taxpayers' money.

Since we can't vote the gimme class off the teat, and as a result, they will continue voting for more and more teat, maybe corporations should just leave.

Oh, they did that--at least the ones who are not lined up for a big suck off of the employers of the Government, the taxpayers.

So, on your planet, how do you keep that scheme going?

You don't, at least not for any great length of time. You can talk about *reality* all you want, but when the bankruptcy of this country by socialists and sponges (corporate and individual) reaches critical mass, I suspect we'll all get a lesson in *reality*.

As to how a president gets to be president, all formalities aside, it appears the ticket is to promise the moon and stars to as many people as possible, have some really heavy backing, foreign and domestic, and work with people who have spent generations trying their level best to make sure the average person is too stupid to pour water put of a boot.

If no one knows or cares how it is supposed to work, you can get away with most anything.

While the messianic trip is optional, it is an absolute must that the purveyors of public opinion, the media, be in your pocket, or at least bought and paid for by whatever means necessary, and it does not hurt to have all manner of thugs and thuglets in the wings to attack, verbally or otherwise, anyone who questions the beatification of the 'one'.

A far cry from the days of someone who turned down the Crown, and only served two terms as President instead.

So, in all your ballyhoo about *reality*, are you arguing *for* the mess we have? Sure seems that way.

*it doesn’t work that way*... LOL...

Laughing out loud?