What I meant was that I am surprised how important campaign contributions are in an age where it is fairly cheap to get your message across online and get people talking.
After all the London riots were an example (albeit not a pleasant one) of how social networking etc can very quickly get people to take action.
Hopefully you could get enough contributions from private citizens and small business to run an effective campaign.
Regards the 2 parties point. It would be difficult to create a third party that would appeal to both liberals and conservatives so in reality you might need a 4th party also.
I assume your suggesting that people wouldn't vote for a 3rd party because the media would tell everyone that they were unelectable and a wasted vote?
Unfortunately I don't really have an answer for that question, the only way around it would be to hammer home just how bad the current system really is.
It's not that the media "tells" you that; though they do. But that's just a reflection of the current state of mind of the populace. People "know" this "fact", that a 3rd partier basically has no chance. I mean, look at Ron Paul. He's completely different from the normal Republican; by all rights he should have been in a separate party. But he wouldn't have gone very far with that. He had to stick with the big party to see it through. The problem is that Republicans and Democrats just have too much power. They have critical mass, and nobody else does.
What I meant was that I am surprised how important campaign contributions are in an age where it is fairly cheap to get your message across online and get people talking.
After all the London riots were an example (albeit not a pleasant one) of how social networking etc can very quickly get people to take action.
Hopefully you could get enough contributions from private citizens and small business to run an effective campaign.
Regards the 2 parties point. It would be difficult to create a third party that would appeal to both liberals and conservatives so in reality you might need a 4th party also.
I assume your suggesting that people wouldn't vote for a 3rd party because the media would tell everyone that they were unelectable and a wasted vote?
Unfortunately I don't really have an answer for that question, the only way around it would be to hammer home just how bad the current system really is.