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The depressing "leadership" offered by the US Sec of Defense

Under the odious "leadership" of the US Secretary of Defense

The "leadership" offered by the US Secretary of Defense

Hegseth is distinguishing himself just not in the way he thinks

Under the "leadership" of the US Sec of Defense

He chose this mental giant to be the Sec of Defense

What a time to be alive

Australia has compulsory voting + preferential voting, where voters rank their preferred choices: the votes of the candidate with the lowest number of votes are reallocated to those voters' second choice, with this process repeating until one candidate reaches more than 50% of all preferenced votes

Expecting to get truth out of a person like that is futile

Brilliant. States - do this!!

Yes! This.
Australia smoothes out much of the radical fringes by fining anyone who does not at least turn up at each election to get their name crossed off as having participated. The less passionate centre of the electorate usually carries the day, without extremes gaining significant power.

Couldn't any individual state get rid of Citizens United by passing a law stating that the powers of any corporation doing business in their state excludes any power to contribute to any election or donate to any political activities? (I saw Robert Reich write about this, that states set powers)