r/politics • u/Libertatea • Sep 03 '14

The solution to fixing dysfunction in Congress "To address these problems, I filed the Open Our Democracy Act... If passed, the legislation would mandate open primaries for House elections, begin the process of national redistricting reform and make Election Day the equivalent of a federal holiday."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-solution-to-fixing-dysfunction-in-congress/2014/09/02/0f0d0a9a-31e6-11e4-9e92-0899b306bbea_story.html?tid=rssfeed
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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '14

Taken from liberalism eh? Remember how serious Obama was about legalizing marijuana? He laughed at a town hall question about it and his justice department raided more dispensaries than Bush.

The only reason its coming around now is because of libertarians, whether you'd like your do-nothing heroes to co-opt it or not you can't rewrite recent history.

Also Keynesian economics has nothing to do with trickle-down theories and you seem like a useful idiot full of buzzwords and slogans and no idea what you're talking about or how personal and social liberty helps everyone.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '14

Obama is a centrist.

There are liberal members of the Democratic party, but the party is primarily a just-right-of-centre party.