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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Real 2016 Winning Factor: NAME RECOGNITION.
Bush.
Clinton.
Only two names that allowed the one presidetial aspirants who have the luck to wear those last names anything. Including thinking we dont have to bother with primaries, ideas debates, and challenger. Including walking on your parties fellows to make you look good.
Really 2016 will be a sad spoof of democratic electoral process...
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Currently there are at least two names that became recognized because of political positions...Warren and Sanders.
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)They just lack one thing.
A corporate machine behind them....
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)that says it all, don't it.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)That says much about how we view accoutrements of political power as more significant than the qualities of the characters.
That well fits the notion that politics is a mechanical rather than ideological process. That's quite contemporary for democratic politics in America.
It places emphasis on assembling attributes of power and allegiances to promote political personage rather than developing and expressing wisdom needed to guide power to help people.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)I'd eat a five pound box of glass before I'd vote for either of those.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Kardashian