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[MetalSlimeHunt]

At this rate we really just need to dump everyone out of congress and re-elect it entirely.

I think someone should start up a national Vote of No Confidence against Congress, personally.

[Theoboldi]

over 100 Members of Congress are supporting the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523), which helps protect American businesses and jobs

the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523), which helps protect American businesses and job

which helps protect American businesses and job

Propaganda at it's finest, folks!

[Sir Finkus]

At this rate we really just need to dump everyone out of congress and re-elect it entirely.

I think someone should start up a national Vote of No Confidence against Congress, personally.

Or maybe, I don't know, stop voting for these idiots in the first place?

People seem to forget that the reason these people are in office is because people voted for them.  If we dumped congress, we'd just get a slightly different one that would probably be just as bad.

I think we're going about this in the wrong way.  We need to go bottom up instead of top down.  If you don't solve the problem at the voter level, you haven't solved anything. 

Hopefully we'll have Google and some other big tech companies on our side.  I don't trust Google in the slightest, but they have deep pockets, and if this hurts their bottom line they'll throw their considerable weight around.

[Aklyon]

Well, theres the problem in general, then. The people who want to run for office are not any good at it in general except in rare cases, and the people who would be of use in office don't want to bother campaigning or dislike politics, or jsut never think of doing so.

[Eagleon]

At this rate we really just need to dump everyone out of congress and re-elect it entirely.

I think someone should start up a national Vote of No Confidence against Congress, personally.

Seconded.

Or maybe, I don't know, stop voting for these idiots in the first place?

People seem to forget that the reason these people are in office is because people voted for them.  If we dumped congress, we'd just get a slightly different one that would probably be just as bad.

The electoral system in place highly favors a two party system, which has made it necessary to employ bizarre campaign strategies that don't favor reasonable people. Not voting for idiots currently means not voting at all, which means idiots will always be elected. There's no other solution but a fundamental change in how we elect our representatives. I can't think of a single person in my life that isn't voting 'strategically', or for the 'lesser of two evils'. That should be much, much rarer than it is.

[Bill the dwarf]

All politicians are idiots until proven otherwise (said proof expires each term and must be re-earned). Vote Vermin Supreme.

[Urist Imiknorris]

over 100 Members of Congress are supporting the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523), which helps protect American businesses and jobs

the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523), which helps protect American businesses and job

which helps protect American businesses and job

Propaganda at it's finest, folks!

Actually, it's even worse than that:

but it also protects the thousands of jobs created by the American intellectual property that Chinese hackers are trying to steal every day.

[Eagleon]

If Chinese hackers are the problem, why not produce a bill that only fights Chinese hackers? I mean after all, if our hackers are stealing jobs from China, that means more net jobs for us, right? On average, hackers would steal more jobs from other countries than our own, so at the same time why not give tax breaks to US hackers? These people are against jobs! Jobs!

[Theoboldi]

They really used THAT as a justification? How can something so unbelievably racist (or at least racist-sounding) even be considered to posted on a political website? Are american politics really that screwed up?

[Zaerosz]

They really used THAT as a justification? How can something so unbelievably racist (or at least racist-sounding) even be considered to posted on a political website? Are american politics really that screwed up?

Yes.

[Urist Imiknorris]

More so.

[Eagleon]

They really used THAT as a justification? How can something so unbelievably racist (or at least racist-sounding) even be considered to posted on a political website? Are american politics really that screwed up?

That's the thing. They're no longer required to care, and they're beginning to realize this. All anyone has to do to get elected is to A: spend massive amounts of money on campaigning to become a visible option, and B: appear less backward, obnoxious, and stupid than their opponent. Predicting which opponent they'll face is the only difficult part, and any idiot with a modicum of self-control can avoid doing stupid shit in the public's eye up until that point.

[Theoboldi]

Well I guess there is such a thing as a stupid question. I really shouldn't have asked.

American politics really are starting to look horrifying to me. Seriously, seeing something like this actually makes me scared. Is that site really official?

Edit: Huh, seems like it is. Okay, I guess that settles it. US politics are dystopian. Terribly so.

[Aklyon]

Yes, the US has terrible politics. I thought more people knew that by now.

[Theoboldi]

Yeah, but I didn't think it was quite that bad. I knew that the voting basically boiled down to chosing the lesser evil but the sheer amount of horrible propaganda on that site is pretty shocking to see. It's almost as bad as China in that regard.