• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I don’t think anybody actually wants our elections to be perpetual. I imagine it’d be easy to fix, except for the fact that longer elections cost more and this means the richest have more sway. I bet they’d resist.

    • aleph@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      That, plus like everything else in America, an entire business has sprung up around running federal elections. Longer campaigns require more staffers, strategists, pollsters, advertisers, etc. It’s a billion dollar industry unto itself.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I think the parties and the companies that own them want the elections to be perpetual, to keep us distracted and fighting each other. It also gives the companies a lot more time to bribe donate to candidates.

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      5 months ago

      Honestly, if it wasn’t one of the most powerful and influential countries of the world, it would be helluva entertainment. I’d invest in popcorn stocks.

      On the other hand, if it wasn’t one of the most powerful and influential countries in the world nobody would care.