Haha..who knows the information could be interesting to others. I'd love to be able to visit Spain sometime in my life. Is Barcelona as interesting of a city as it looks in pictures? have you been?
New here, I didn't realize I had limited space on the title/description of the poll here's the Gist of the poll "With the increase in campaign costs. I believe that this only pushes our representatives further into the pockets of those who pay for their victories. With this in mind, would you support publicly funded campaigns, and equality in media exposure/advertising?
We're a highly polled society and because of that we can easily find out what it is people want from government in the form of policies and decisions. If you measure current policies with public opinion polls you'll see that there is a huge disconnect between what people want and what they are getting on a wide range of topics and issues, whether foreign policy or many social issues. Public opinion or the will of the people does not influence policy in a real sense. I think its pretty unfair to blame the problems in this country on voters who get to decide between all of a few people who are real choices only because they're backed by the same capital intense corporations or financial institutions...that went to the same elite universities...basically the same backgrounds wealth political influence etc...its literally unthinkable that we could elect someone in this country from our own ranks who have different policies...Its not the voters fault...its the nature of our political system...its nothing new either...you can see it in the ideals of our founders...so take a couple of the most influential john jay at the constitutional convention said "those who own the country ought to govern it" or james Madison who said "the role of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority" I believe theres a real lack of democracy and that is a main problem we face in this country...
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Haha..who knows the information could be interesting to others. I'd love to be able to visit Spain sometime in my life. Is Barcelona as interesting of a city as it looks in pictures? have you been?