>>10719518

Yep. My kinda Catholic. Priests and Bishops in other times died defending the freedom of Faith or indeed the freedoms of ordinary people against political oppression - whether it was 'right' or 'left' oppression. They also died having willingly walked into areas of disease to assist people when all others deserted them.

Now they've just bowed readily in cowardice (either of the virus itself or in fear of State backlash). They are being used to sell the terror, and some of them are selling it well indeed.

In my area, the local Priest has not once prayed for all the people the world over supposedly dying from this terrible 'pandemic' and neither has he ever even suggested a prayer that might ask God to end the 'pandemic'. Not once. Is it because he knows it's all bullshit?

>>10719754

The fact is that lobbyists and special interest groups (both foreign and domestic) pay more of their real income than the taxpayer (you) does.

They won't care about voters until that relationship is forcefully rebalanced. How do you do that though? Complex problem.

It keeps coming back to an entirely new relationship between Governance and the people who own the Government. In this digital age, there must be new ways of making the direct voice of the people decide policy on an ongoing basis. We no longer need this mechanism of devolving a people's power to representatives.

Rather than voting on representatives, maybe the new way should simply be people voting on policy… weekly, monthly, - daily if need be. The people directly voting for Supreme Court Justices as an example. Cut out the middle man 'representative' altogether.

>>10719870

Does Hannity ever mention him?

Does Carlson ever mention him?

>>10719919

I agree with you on all the 'shoulds' but that's the dilemma I speak of. How can you turn a 'should' into an enforceable reality? Very very difficult in a system designed to allow many freedoms to the individual to prosper and lead free lives.

Example - say you impose a ban on representatives dealing with lobbyists. They will be bound by the constraints of their profession (at least formally). But these representatives will have spouses, sons, daughters, involved in businesses of their own and free to engage in communications necessary to run a business. This might mean they are free to meet with people who might seek to influence the Representative through back channels as it were.

So, then all family members are finally forced to adopt the same restrictions on communications that are forced on their political family member.

But then friends become the next line of communication attempted by people wanting to influence the politician.

Complicated to enforce an end to companies (foreign or domestic) trying to influence political representatives.