Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Feinstein Frustrates Klobuchar During Hearing" video.

Yes indeed. I mean we live in an industrial banana republic. No exaggeration. The gov from the metro city level to state to federal is for the elites and big business, and runs on open graft. These assholes can use euphemisms all they want, but let's call it what it is- it is bribery and GRAFT, plain and simple.
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@6789uiop well the big corps want total unfettered domination, and seeding every level of so-called govt with it's faithful shills is how they get there. They got the SCOTUS, the GOP and a good part of the corpDems and probably most of governorships and as many state assemblies- so for now they have most of the govt on their side. The SCOTUS with C.U. was just their crowning achievement. In time this can be undone but I think it's going to take a while.
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@jokerswank6082 I'm willing to go up to 70. But that's it. And yes this would disqualify good people like Bernie Sanders occasionally, but that's ok. As much as I would hate to lose one of the few genuine good sitting members when they still have a good mind and value system to offer, I could accept that if that's the price of getting the rest of these wrthless ultra-wealthy corrupt af harmful-status-quo loving ancient douchebags out of there.
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@kalaperr ikr?? It's such an oligarchy 🤮
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@Apostate1970 more people in the bottom half need to vote. It's that simple. Until they do- the wealthy will keep getting to pick the candidates.
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@JohnHoffman65 I live is San Diego and while CA has a lot of fantastic aspects we also have the same problems here as the rest of the country just more so. Poverty and evil mass incarceration which could change overnight were people of conscience to take over the Assembly. That's what I'm working on. I plan to go out for office by 2030. Course I can't do it alone so- I feel like I need a more comprehensive plan than that- which is what I'm working on now.
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@JohnHoffman65 yes I don't disagree with anything you state here.
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@JohnHoffman65 off-topic but you may like the new MLK podcast from iheartradio.
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Age limits and term limits. Period. And somehow ending the Mississippi River of pure graft that flows to both corporate parties at every level of gov from the city to the state to the federal. (If it's even possible. Maybe it's not. Maybe govt-for-hire is here to stay and it's just BS we're stuck with fir another 100 years)
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@The Majority Speaks indeed but when you have a tiny little cabal who's making major decisions for the whole country, and nobody on it (maybe sotormeyer) is halfway "progressive", where there a few weak kinda-liberals, and at least five big business shills, this is what we get. I'm ready for the SCOTUS to disappear too but I guess that's not readily forthcoming 😒
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@6789uiop I pretty much focus on only alternative sources now. CNN is fine to a point, but they have their own very pro-corp, pro-DNC, mostly pro-MIC spin which leaves out a lot of important information not to mention certain stories they refuse to cover, such as Assange (unless they did and I missed it).
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@AdamBladeTaylor srsly...
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@AdamBladeTaylor right. 100%
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@merbst right. So basically like a large scale death match and who knows how it will end?? WW3?? Eh I think we all hope not but I'm fully expecting it sometime in my lifetime.
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@mehoo8 I think most take campaign funding from the big interests to win their rep or Senate election and have already decided which side their bread is buttered on and go in knowing who they plan to put first and foremost over anyone or anything else. You know, the donors. Most of the Dems are controlled by their big money donors from at least the state level up (ofc the GOP are they have no principles so no point in even considering them) and of course that's why next to nothing positive for the common person ever gets done. But yeah I mean, some of them get corrupted after they get there but I think most show up with their bought and paid for agenda well in hand and ready to go the moment they show up.
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@JohnHoffman65 age limits are not a panacea and I'm not personally ageist at all. Experience is important. There are good people who are sharp until their last days and it's a shame to lose them (like Bernie) if a new rule was passed. But I see it as a good measure to help prevent entrenchment of corruption or outdated views in public management aka govt. All non-progessive Dems have done very limited measures for the environment or the common person. I don't trust nor want traditional Dems, I want hardcore socialists or in lieu of that the furthest Leftists I can find. If you think I've overlooked something btw tell me and I'll take a closer look, but in general that is what I see.
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@JohnHoffman65 Sure. I mean we're basically of similar values and that's what's important. I understand that its harder for the older generation to get around lifelong govt propaganda and the creating of knee-jerk trigger words by the special interests. That's why it's up to the rest of us who came after, and those of any age who have been deprogrammed, who have positive public agendas to contribute, to come forward and aggressively demonstrate why all of that was a not-so-clever long-term con job by the elites who would do and say anything to protect imperialistic corporate profit. The new social order can't be based on that kind of destructive ideology. Social welfare and ecological conservation are the humanistic values that our group believes in and that's what we'll be fighting for. The multinationals and the .01% (or 1% to be more general) can get in the back of the bus or go f___ themselves, their choice. I mean all they're bringing is ruin AND we're sick of it. I'm not saying they can or will magically up and disappear but a Leftist govt can and WILL strictly limit their expansion and conduct and hold them responsible for any fraud of environmental crimes they commit. Granted it will be hard to go from a govt of, by and FOR the big chain corps in the USA to anything remotely Leftist, but anything's possible and we have to try. Hey have you checked out Second Thought? It's another YT ch____. You might find it interesting and worthwhile if you haven't yet.
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@CitroTeam 250 give or take but yes. It's utterly ridiculous that pivotal aspects of the so-called Constitution haven't been expanded, replaced, or updated yet. I don't like the fact we still have a Senate period, but everyone can agree the EC is ludicrous and should have been ended a very long time ago. I would like to see the numbers of reps from all states increase, so each rep reps fewer people. Age and term limits for all positions for sure. Actual voting rights. PAPER BALLOTS NO EXCEPTIONS. National voting rules. Election day being a holiday. Early voting everywhere. An independent election commission to oversee national elections. RCV and multiple parties not this two-party nonsense. There's so much that needs to be done and you can expect these current people, or many of them, have no intention of doing it.
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@JohnHoffman65 you bet 👍
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I honestly don't know if any of this govt can be saved. Even at the state level it's nothing but a front group for big business aka Wall Street and the Pentagon and the PIC. Literally nothing else matters to these people bec they get paid for it not to (would be nice if most electiods didn't sell themselves to the highest bidder but I guess that's too much to ask for).
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I'm no fan of Klobuchar but we HAVE to get these gddm ultra-corrupt 900 year old fossils OUT of Congress. I would like to see the Senate be swept away entirely, but at a minimum we really need rational term limits. Almost all of Congress is corrupt to one degree or another, almost all of them are there for big money interests regardless of party affiliation; but these fossils really take it to another level. The only exception to this currently that I see is Bernie Sanders, but he's one in a million. The benefits to sensible term limits far outweigh the downsides IMO.
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