Headbanging_Man said

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MillenialKingdom said	[orig][quote]
In fact, if anyone has a problem with the government, instead of joining domestic terrorist groups or starting protest events, run for office yourself. That's what I plan on doing some day down the road. Sure, I hate what the government does too and a lot of our elected officials are nothing but babbling baffoons. I can just as easily vote them out of office.

That's all fine and dandy, and indeed there is some wiggle room for local politics, but national electioneering is not a contest in democracy and policy, it's a matter of commerce. I'm sure if you adopt the right agenda, national office is possible, I just hope you support:

- Unimpeded Israeli expansion and war crimes
- Environmental and financial deregulation
- Corporate tax breaks
- Poorly regulated nuclear power
- Mountain-top coal mining
- Locking up millions of non-violent drug offenders
- More bases, more wars, more depleted uranium, more torture, wider and wider definitions of "terrorism" (to include peaceful political protest)
- Continued bailouts to industries ranging from banking to health insurance to airlines to energy production to telecommunications
- All PATRIOT Acts, current and future
- Prison-terms for whistleblowers
- Courts weighted strictly in favor of corporate/monetary power against civil/employee/environmental interests
- Death to Social Security, Medicare and public schools

As long as you're on board with this All-American agenda, you'll really go places!