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Originally Posted by Derwood
I don't entirely buy that. A politician can lie through his teeth to get elected, and then we're stuck with them for 2-6 years with no way to stop them. If you do your due diligence, vote with your brain, but then your candidate does the exact opposite of what you've elected them to do, you can't do a damn thing until the next election cycle.
Voting doesn't fix the massively corrupt core of Washington politics
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the people can indeed fix that, via state laws. If a US senator from (insert state here) is found to have deceived the people that voted for him/her, the people of that state can then implement recall laws. all politics is local.
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