SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, ACTA, TPP, ITU, CISPA again, TAFTA. We won them all. In 2015 Net Neutrality, for free access to our Internets. The FCC just signalled the death knell for that hard-won fight. We need to have a serious conversation and fight this, and time is short. Let's have that conversation.

Lol, someone still thinks there's a good political party and an evil one. Take Climate Change and Gun Rights as examples. Each party gets their base riled up over their pet issue, then does nothing effective about it when they're in power. If Republicans gave Americans unrestricted gun ownership, people would move on to other things next election & they'd have to reposition the entire party. Same thing for Democrats and Climate Change. Oh, sure, the two parties constantly fight over these issues, passing do-nothing bills with grandiose names, and blaming each other for the lack of progress, but if you look over the long term it becomes obvious it's all theatrics.

The best we can hope for one or both of the parties to implode and end the duopoly. Trump is an excellent catalyst for this -- I thought the Republican party was about to fragment during the primary, but then it rallied and struck a near-fatal wound to the Democrats (Republicans now control the presidency, house, senate, likely the supreme court, and lead in state legislative seats by 30%). If the Republican Party gets a bit more powerful we'll likely see it divide and then we'll have three major players of approximately equal strength.

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