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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGamed or Functional?
Do you think our system of government is functional or do you think the system is gamed?
If gamed, can it be ungamed?
In it can be ungamed, how?
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Gamed or Functional? (Original Post)
Stinky The Clown
Jul 2013
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handmade34
(22,758 posts)1. as is?... functional?
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)2. Of course it's gamed.
Look at who is getting every thing but fucked and look who is getting nothing but fucked.
It's very obvious.
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)3. Congress will never pass the laws that would ungame the system n/t
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)4. Thoroughly, hopelessly gamed.
The power to change it is completely controlled by the only people in America that don't want it changed.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)7. actually, we the people have the power to change it.
To date, we have not been willing to do what it takes.
The people always have the ultimate power.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)8. Not from within the system we don't.
We have a two-headed guardian of the system that's primary purpose is to exclude people that might not do as they are told.
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grasswire
(50,130 posts)6. George Carlin covered this pretty well.
It's a club, and we ain't in it.