Right now presidential debates are limited to the candidates from the two corporate parties.
The debates are controlled by the so-called Commission on Presidential Debates, a private corporation which was created by the Democratic and Republican Parties in 1987.
Right now, each state sets its own standards and third party and independent candidates must spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours for a chance to get on the ballots of the various states.
In some states, it is fairly simple to get on the ballot.
Check out the requirements in these nightmare states: (And remember, we need to collect double the number required in each state because many are arbitrarily invalidated.)
For 75 years, the American people have lived under the anti-union Taft Hartley law.
It’s passage was a great blow to democracy.
The law was drafted by employers.
The law impedes employees’ right to join together in labor unions, undermines the power of unions to represent workers’ interests effectively, bans secondary boycotts and authorizes an array of anti-union activities by employers.
The political damage of Taft-Hartley was just as severe.
The law kicked off an era of red-baiting with the American labor movement which led to harmful internal division. A now-invalidated provision of Taft-Hartley required union leaders to sign anti-communist affidavits.
The Taft Hartley law sent a message to employers: It was OK to bust unions and deny workers their rights to collectively bargain.
Our democracy is in a descending crisis
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