<div><div dir="auto">What are your opinions on mind hacking? People are working on implanting “seeds” in humans in order to re-wire their brains to behave differently and essentially become a different person.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 8:09 PM Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 1:01 PM, William Flynn Wallace<br>
<<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Guess who is in charge of party politics in the states? Dems and Repubs,<br>
> who want vast number of signatures for a third party.<br>
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> What we need is someone to come out of nowhere, like Obama did, but be<br>
> independent, like Wallace and Perot (was Perot ind.?).<br>
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No, we do not need someone.<br>
<br>
We need a lot of someones.<br>
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The chances of a non-Democrat & non-Republican president winning go up<br>
dramatically if many members of Congress and state governors are<br>
obviously affiliated with said candidate. Further, even if an<br>
independent president were elected, you need an ideologically aligned<br>
Congress to get stuff done - as Trump has shown, for better and for<br>
worse (notice where Trump has had success, and where Trump's wishes<br>
have been denied by Congress). Obama demonstrated this too.<br>
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Now, these Congresspeople and governors may themselves be Democrat or<br>
Republican. (Although, for the kind of president we're promoting, few<br>
if any Republicans would be willing to buck their party and support<br>
someone who, for example, insists on truth and sound logic on issues<br>
like immigration and unemployment, rather than just claiming<br>
immigrants are the "they" we must unite against, and claiming that<br>
people who intend to hurt American coal and steel - rather than<br>
automation and reduced demand - are responsible for the loss of coal<br>
and steel jobs. TBH, the Democrats could do worse than promoting a<br>
party of responsible investors as their competition, and with them<br>
squeeze the Republicans into irrelevance. Even those who lost their<br>
seats would still win, by being in an America that supports them and<br>
their values better.)<br>
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