Random Politics & Religion #13

And in other news....

Clinton Holds 11-Point National Lead Over Trump: NBC/WSJ Poll
NBC News


Poll: Clinton leads Trump by just 4 points despite lewd comments (ABC News/Washington Post national poll)
Politico

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As far as Italy is concerned, the news are all about how Hillary Clinton made Berlusconi cry and then mocked him during the Goldman Sachs speech!

Donations from American citizens who are lobbyists for foreign interest are NOT foreign donations.

The worst part of this is that some of you are think you are informed enough to vote.

It sucks that people pick their vote based on the color someone is representing. The two party system is almost as stupid as media political bias.

A group of Democrats came together Sunday to raise money to rebuild a Republican headquarters that was firebombed in North Carolina on Saturday night.

The GOP headquarters in Orange County, N.C., suffered major damage when an explosive device was thrown through a window on Saturday night, according to officials. The words “Nazi Republicans leave town or else” were spray-painted on a nearby building.

Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, denounced the attack, calling it “political terrorism.” He said all Americans “should be outraged by this hate-filled and violent attack against our democracy.”

On Sunday, David Weinberger began a GoFundMe page to raise $10,000 to rebuild the Hillsborough, N.C., headquarters.

“As Democrats, we are starting this campaign to enable the Orange County, N.C., Republican office to re-open as soon as possible,” the page said in the story section.

The group said that while it’s still unclear who attacked the office, or why, one thing is clear: “This is not how Americans resolve their differences.”

“We talk, we argue, sometimes we march, and most of all we vote. We do not resort to violence by individuals or by mobs,” the group said. “So, let's all pitch in, no matter what your party affiliation, and get that office open again quickly.”

Within forty minutes of posting, the group surpassed the goal and raised $13,117. Many of those who donated made comments about supporting people regardless of party affiliation.

"Not a Republican, but we all stand together against such anti-democratic violence," one person wrote, while another said, "This Democrat from Indiana hopes you're able to get your back to your office as soon as possible."

The group is no longer accepting donations but asked that those who want to contribute donate to a North Carolina school through Donors Choose.

We need more education

And in actual bipartisan good news:

Democrats raise $13K to reopen firebombed GOP headquarters
USA Today

We need to reconsider how we do our voting then and how we pick our candidates.

- We need more education on voting and politics in our schools
- Vote day needs to be a mandated paid holiday.
- Media reporting on political elections needs some sort of regulation.
- The RNC and DNC both need to die in a pit and burn away.

And how would you go about drafting some set of rules to silence the media? Which, by the way, is an awful idea and unconstitutional...

unfortunately that wont help until we get smarter educators...

Even if the US had more parties, how do you folk imagine them working out?

There is a world out here that has countries with multiple big and small parties all equally considered. There just is no desire for change in America because it's easier to win and to keep control of everything with two behemoths encompassing multiple ideologies at once.

I meant the parties themselves don't want change. Sure two oddballs popped out this year but both have been ostracized.

A lot of this has to do with how much we are paying our educators.

Medias being moderated by the government is the worst idea ever.

There is a world out here that has countries with multiple big and small parties all equally considered. There just is no desire for change in America because it's easier to win and to keep control of everything with two behemoths encompassing multiple ideologies at once.

well good luck busting the federal/state/local government workers unions, hiring/paying teachers based on performance, year round school, reforming the curriculum without selling the kid's souls to Microsoft or some other corporate monstrosity, rebuilding the family in the inner cities and then instilling in them the value of a good education and respect for authority figures including, but not limited to, teachers, crossing guards, police, firemen, the military, etc.

if you could go ahead and solve the vicious cycle of poverty while you are at it that would be great...

Government controlling the medias, what could possibly go wrong? That's getting closer and closer to dictatorship. You can't remove bias, people are biased and people are making the news. Here we have a law where the medias cannot knowingly lie or they get fined, it's far from efficient.

well good luck busting the federal/state/local government workers unions, hiring/paying teachers based on performance, year round school, reforming the curriculum without selling the kid's souls to Microsoft or some other corporate monstrosity, rebuilding the family in the inner cities and then instilling in them the value of a good education and respect for authority figures including, but not limited to, teachers, crossing guards, police, firemen, the military, etc.

if you could go ahead and solve the vicious cycle of poverty while you are at it that would be great...