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Old 04-28-15, 02:00 AM   #6
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Maybe there is and maybe there isn't but either way I submit that such things are the *essence of democracy. No citizen of a free country should be prevented from running for pubic office because of their last name.


So you say members of the same family can become the leading persons or president again and again, over 30 years, and more.

For me it looks as if other probably more competent persons are effectively hindered to get a chance to become president, by an election system very much alike the "Kurfuersten" in Germany some hundred years ago. Where certain aristocratic and rich influential people were allowed to choose ..

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*essence of democracy
For me this looks like "family throne succession"
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