'Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has joined forces with his 2012 rival, President Obama, to fight a lawsuit charging the Commission on Presidential Debates with antitrust violations.' ~ By SEAN HIGGINS • 1/15/16 5:02 PM

This article demonstrates the arseholes Obama and Romney really are. They and their party elites are nothing but a bunch of anti-representative government goons! THEY ARE AGAINST THE PEOPLE!!!

'Yet, the private Commission on Presidential Debates, created in 1987 by the Democratic and Republican parties, has created a debate duopoly that makes it virtually impossible for candidates other than the Republican and Democrat nominees to participate. '

Don't take to the streets to support cop-killers. Instead take to the streets to open up our debates and ballots in this country!

'They do so by using a rule excluding every candidate who fails to poll at at least 15% support in five polls chosen by them (which often only ask about the two major party nominees).'

'Internationally, few places use a polling threshold to exclude candidates for office, and those that do set polling thresholds lower than 15% – in fact, 5% is more typical.' ` ~ Drew Spencer, originally published on FairVote’s blog on April 15, 2016

Note that thwarting the votes of the people and excluding all but a few parties has been cause for revolution in other countries.

'The issue has taken on a new life in 2016 as polling data has borne out Americans’ frustration with the two-party system.'

'There has been a movement of people registering as independents, with several states now boasting pluralities — or in the case of Massachusetts, a majority of registered voters unaffiliated with any party.' ~ By Jonathan Easley and Ben Kamisar - 05/12/16 06:00 AM EDT

'San Diego police reported that approximately 300 to 400 protesters gathered outside of Trump's event, which led to four arrests for "for incidents including assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful assembly," Officer Albert Morales said in a statement.' ~ By JOHN SANTUCCI, CANDACE SMITH, DAVID CAPLAN | Jun 3, 2016 - 5:50 PM ET

The keyword this case is 'outside'. Yet whether inside or outside of the Trump events the disruptors are obviously of the leftist inclination.

Their justification of violence at Trump rallies:

'Violence that takes place at Trump rallies—in support or opposition—is a reaction to the tone he’s set, and the blame for it should land primarily on his shoulders.'

'Understanding European anti-fascists use of violent tactics to shut down large rallies from White Supremacists can be illustrative here.' ~ Jesse Benn - 06/06/2016 05:08 pm 17:08:14 | Updated Jun 06, 2016

“He set a bad example,” Clinton said on CNN. “He created an environment in which it seemed to be acceptable for someone running for president to be inciting violence, to be encouraging his supporters. Now we are seeing people who are against it respond in kind.” ~ By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND | Published JUNE 4, 2016, 11:12 AM EDT

Or is it more the other way around? It first started with leftists coming into his events and then having to be thrown out for heckling and disrupting. Trump then began to react to their tactics which got more and more intense. Any group or individual should be able to advocate for use of reasonable force against those who disrupt the right of peaceful assembly.

'I have previously defended nonviolent protests that disrupt Trump rallies, like when Bernie Sanders supporters and Black Lives Matters activists flooded into a rally in Chicago, singing songs and chanting slogans, which caused Trump to cancel the rally in fear.' ~ Ryan Cooper June 6 2016

The keywords here are 'disrupt' and 'fear'. Note also 'flooding' and 'chanting'. In today's America, leftists are usually the ones who impede the right of others to peaceably assemble and discuss their views.

'The Establishment on both the left and the right, who want to disenfranchise the millions of Republican voters who support Donald Trump, have blamed the staged riots near Trump rallies on Trump or on Bernie Sanders. That’s like blaming the Russians for the Reichstag Fire. Bernie has little to do with these manufactured protests. This is a Clinton operation, a faux protest.' ~ ROGER STONE | 9:48 AM 03/21/2016

With Clinton's record of tactics we would not be surprised if her operatives were to blame behind at least some the scenes.

'Clinton Foundation donations have also been linked to State Department favors for weapons manufacturers and foreign governments. Peter Schweitzer’s book, Clinton Cash, cites four trustees of the Clinton Foundation charged with or convicted of financial crimes. Aside from the security risks her private email server posed, evidence suggests Clinton’s intent was not convenience, but rather to circumvent FOIA laws.' ~ By Michael Sainato • 07/13/16 8:00am

“Schweizer lays out compelling patterns in which the timing of policy decisions or international deals relative to donations, transcends coincidence - or at least, merits closer inspection. He narrates with crisp prose and illuminating detail.” ~ Forbes review

'People don't have a lot of "impromptu meetings" in private jets sitting on airport tarmacs. As ABC15 Arizona reported, [Bill] Clinton arrived to the airport to depart, heard Lynch was en route to that airport and then waited for her arrival. Maybe it was just dumb luck that this happened only a day before the Benghazi report was released by Congress, and a few days after the Associated Press published another 165 pages of emails then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent via her unsanctioned and unsecure private email server and did not want anyone to see. ' ~ David Harsanyi | July 1, 2016

'According to the official statement of FBI director, James Comey, agency experts were unable to recover information from Clinton’s wiped-clean server, and Clinton’s legal team claims there are no backups. Thus the contents of the 30,000 deleted “private” emails are not known unless they are in the hands of foreign intelligence hackers, who could deploy them to influence the 2016 election, blackmail a President Clinton once in office, or to embarrass her and the United States.' ~ Paul Roderick Gregory - JUL 9, 2016 @ 11:46 AM

'And former CIA director David Petraeus has stated that the US government ascertained that the Benghazi massacre was a coordinated act of terrorism "almost immediately." State Department documents and Hillary's own virtual paper trail affirm this. The Secretary of State understood the truth, with clarity. She shared it with her own daughter and with foreign diplomats, while serving up a fiction to the American people, including heartbroken family members of the deceased.'

'The Obama administration claimed that all relevant information had been provided years ago, and Democrats have assailed the current investigation as redundant and partisan -- yet the Benghazi Select Committee is just now receiving these emails from Patrick Kennedy, a high-ranking Clinton subordinate at the center of this and several other controversies. In fact, State officials are saying that are so many previously-unreleased, relevant documents in need of review that they were unable to fully comply with the federal judge's orders on time. ' ~ Guy Benson | Posted: Jan 04, 2016 10:25 AM

'Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, combined to earn more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign last spring, a CNN analysis shows.'

'The Clinton campaign has been noncommittal about releasing transcripts of the paid speeches and Clinton has told reporters that she will "look into" making her remarks public.' ~ By Robert Yoon, CNN Updated 1:15 PM ET, Sat February 6, 2016

'Hillary Clinton's speaking fees have been the subject of much political debate.'

'What's more, the investigation revealed that many of the groups had federal contracts or lobbied the Clinton State Department. Some even had direct contact with Clinton or her top aides while she was secretary of state.'

'See all the fees the AP discovered in the graphic....' ~ By Lindsey Cook | Data Editor April 22, 2016, at 11:32 a.m.

'Mrs. Clinton’s financial disclosure forms show that she reported personal income of more than $11 million for 51 speeches in 13 months. Yet she has not defined how she and Mr. Clinton decide which fees are personal income and which go directly to charity. Normally, the IRS doesn’t let taxpayers pick and choose. But this is no normal family, nor is it a normal charity.' ~ FEB 9, 2016 @ 08:42 AM | Robert W. Wood

'It is difficult to imagine no breach of ethics when a high-profile, presumptive candidate for president is paid more than $21 million in less than two years for almost no work from corporate, healthcare, investment banks and other concerns, only to announce one month after the speaking tour has ended that she is indeed running for president. ' ~ Published on Monday, February 22, 2016 | By Howard Friel

'She did not intend to break the law and would not be prosecuted even if the evidence showed she did – a precedent coming about three days too late for a U.S. Navy seaman who pleaded guilty Friday to using his cellphone to take pictures inside restricted areas of a nuclear submarine and keeping them, in violation of the rules for handling classified materials.'

'The most troubling thing, which will ultimately be left to the voters to work out for themselves, is how she and her minions lied to the public at just about every turn. She wanted everything on one device. There were no private servers. There were private servers but no classified materials were sent through them. There are as many excuses and denials as there are emails – some of which have probably been destroyed, contrary to the provisions of federal record-keeping acts that are in place just to prevent things like this from ever happening.' ~ By Peter Roff | Contributing Editor July 5, 2016, at 6:00 p.m.

“When my mother says she’s going to vote for Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman, to me that is identity politics at its worst,” Soldati tells Quartz. “It’s putting the value of a female president over the value of a president with your values.”

'And as far as they’re concerned, Clinton stands at the apex of the establishment pyramid, one that is entrenched in the power politics of Washington, far removed from the average young American. She’s just another politician, and that class as a whole should not be trusted.'

'Hillary fans say that having a woman at the helm in the White House would provide much stronger support for policies that are critical for women, like equal pay, paid maternity and family leave, universal child care, and reproductive rights.' ~ Hanna Kozlowska February 24, 2016

'Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was forced to resign after Wikileak unloaded thousands of e-mails including some that proved top DNC staff plotted to sabotage Sanders’ presidential hopes'.

'But then Hillary Clinton issued a statement extolling Wasserman Schultz’s tenure and announcing thst she would become honorary campaign chair of her presidential campaign.' ~ By Steven Rosenfeld / July 24, 2016

'As for Trump's Cruz-is-a-politics-as-usual D.C. insider lie, Mr. Trump cannot have it both ways. Remember when Trump said both parties in Washington hate Cruz, citing Cruz's outsider status as a negative, making him unable to make deals?'

'In reality, Trump is the D.C. insider, hiring lobbyists and paying politicians for decades. Trump admits being friendly and ready to make deals with extreme partisan Democrats. ' ~ April 28, 2016 by Lloyd Marcus

'He called Ted Cruz a liar in debate after Cruz said Trump supported funding Planned Parenthood – but Trump does support funding Planned Parenthood’s “non-abortion services,” a completely nonsensical position'

'Trump says that Cruz lied about Ben Carson dropping out of the race in Iowa; we’ve dealt with the entire timeline here. Suffice it to say, that’s nonsense. Carson gave indicators he was dropping out to CNN, which reported it, and the Cruz campaign told people about it. End of story. ' ~ BY: BEN SHAPIRO | FEBRUARY 17, 2016

'Donald Trump agrees with the liberal SCOTUS majority and The New York Times that eminent-domain for corporate gain is marvelous Trump loves eminent domain for limousine parking lots and other corporate projects.'

'All Democratic presidential candidates for decades have supported mandates and subsidies for ethanol. The most conservative Republicans — Cruz and Rand Paul — opposed them. Trump was the most pro-ethanol of the major GOP candidates.' ~ By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY (@TPCARNEY) • 2/26/16 - 5:15 PM

'And yet Trump still believes in a critical Washington role. He’s backed a proposal to create a national health-care system — Trumpcare anyone? — similar to one offered to federal employees that is government run.'

'Yet if American companies continue to move to Mexico or other countries, Trump repeated his promise in Las Vegas to slap a 35% tariff on any goods they try to send back to the United States.' ~ Published: Feb 24, 2016 10:36 a.m. ET | By JEFFRY BARTASH

'But what does Donald Trump really believe on policy? It’s hard to tell — his campaign will identify no policy director, he has no “issues” tab on his campaign website and he hasn’t given any substantive policy speeches on the campaign trail.'

'Given an opportunity earlier this month to revise his view of unions, Trump did not. “I have great relationships with unions,” he told Newsweek’s Matthew Cooper. Trump is himself a union member, collecting a $110,228 annual pension from the Screen Actors Guild, according to his financial disclosure.'

' Trump proposed a 35 percent tax on “every car and every truck and every part” manufactured by American automakers in Mexico that crosses into the U.S. Trump also favors a 20 percent tariff on all imported goods and a 15 percent tax “for outsourcing jobs.” ~ By TIMOTHY NOAH 07/26/15 | 07:47 AM EDT

'Donald Trump was a registered Democrat for a number of years, and has frequently contributed to the campaigns of liberal Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid, while rarely contributing to Republicans. He favors policies that all but the most left-wing Democrats shy away from, like socialized medicine.' ~ POSTED ON FEBRUARY 15, 2016 BY JOHN HINDERAKER

'He said the New York Times has a "secret tape" of Trump saying that "he doesn't believe what he's saying on immigration."

"That all of his promises to secure the borders are not real and if he's president he doesn't intend to do what he says," Cruz said.'

"Donald Trump should ask The New York Times to release the audio of his interview with him so we can see exactly what it is he truly believes about this issue that he has made the cornerstone of his campaign," Rubio said in a news release.' ~ February 29, 2016, 04:46 pm - By Rebecca Savransky

'Throughout his wildly inconsistent presidential campaign, the erratic billionaire has routinely taken one position one day and the opposite the next. And in many cases, observers can wait a week or so and find that the Donald has reversed himself a few more times.'

'Then, just last week, he appeared to further throw any notion of fiscal conservatism out the window, asserting that the U.S. won’t ever default on its debt because it can always print more money.' ~ BY ADAM EDELMAN Updated: Saturday, May 14, 2016, 5:20 PM

'Trump has often channeled Sanders as a kindred spirit, arguing that both were being kept down by a "rigged system" and applauding his stance on trade.' ~ June 07, 2016, 09:25 pm - By Ben Kamisar

'Up until now, of course, candidates have just released their tax returns as a matter of good practice. The public and pundits are used to it. But only tradition requires releasing the returns. It is part of the ’nothing to hide’ candidate vetting.' ~ JUL 13, 2016 @ 09:08 AM - Robert W. Wood

'Another Utah delegate, Stefani Stone Williams, received an intimidating email from Carl Paladino, the co-chairman of Trump's New York campaign..... "You should be hung [sic] for treason Stefani," Paladino wrote. "There will not be a Republican Party if you attempt to replace Trump. I'll be in your face in Cleveland." ~ By THOMAS BURR | The Salt Lake Tribune - Jul 18 2016 07:29PM

'It’s a noticeable shift away from the slash-and-burn approach of Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who some party insiders blame for cultivating, or at least enabling, Trump’s brasher tendencies. One state party leader, who requested anonymity, described the intimidation tactics coming from Trump supporters as part of “Corey culture.” ~ By Eli Stokols and Kyle Cheney 04/22/16 05:06 AM EDT

It would seem that psychological conditioning of the populace keeps them surrendering to the two-party electoral tactics despite the parties taking us to our obvious doom:

All you need is some authority and habitual thinking in order to manipulate people into submission to the powers that be as Milgram's obedience experiment showed.

We see how the two-party mentality of ' Us vs. Them ' is a systemic extension of Zimbardo's infamous prison experiment at Stanford.

'Far from being a bystander, Hoover actively intervened in the economy, advocating and implementing polices that were quite similar to those that Franklin Roosevelt later implemented. Moreover, many of Hoover's interventions, like those of his successor, caused the Great Depression to be “great”—that is, to last a long time.'

'Hoover proposed, and Congress approved, the largest peacetime tax increase in U.S. history. The Revenue Act of 1932 increased personal income taxes dramatically, but also brought back a variety of excise taxes that had been used during World War I.'

'On top of that increase, the Act placed a large surtax on higher-income earners, leading to a total tax rate of anywhere from 25 to 63%. The Act also raised the corporate income tax along with several taxes on other forms of income and wealth.'

'Roosevelt’s own advisors understood that much of what they created during the New Deal owed its origins to Hoover’s policies, going as far back as his time at the Commerce Department in the 1920s.' ~ by Steven Horwitz

'In response to the stock market crash of 1929, however, protectionism gained strength, and, though the tariff legislation subsequently passed only by a narrow margin (44–42) in the Senate, it passed easily in the House of Representatives. Despite a petition from more than 1,000 economists urging him to veto the legislation, Hoover signed the bill into law on June 17, 1930.'

'Smoot-Hawley contributed to the early loss of confidence on Wall Street and signaled U.S. isolationism. By raising the average tariff by some 20 percent, it also prompted retaliation from foreign governments, and many overseas banks began to fail.'

'Mao was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1935 until his death, and he was chairman (chief of state) of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 1959 and chairman of the party also until his death.' ~ Written by: Stuart Reynolds Schram

'True to Roosevelt's progressive beliefs, the platform of the party called for major reforms including women's suffrage, social welfare assistance for women and children, farm relief, revisions in banking, health insurance in industries, and worker's compensation. The party also wanted an easier method to amend the constitution.'

'Roosevelt shared many of the progressive policies of Wilson yet his core support came from Republicans who defected from the party.' ~ By Martin Kelly American History Expert

'But the most clear parallel is to 1912, when, then as now, a celebrity candidate swept in and threw the GOP establishment off balance. It was Theodore Roosevelt, a showman if ever there was one, like Trump today.' ~ By Kenneth T. Walsh | March 11, 2016, at 6:00 a.m.

' We can take the reins of power away from the ruling elites. We can rewrite the rules of the game, resurrect the middle class, and fulfill the people's vision of the American dream. Join with us today, and together we—the new Progressive Bull Moose Party—will clean out the U.S. Congress and sweep away the political and economic tyranny that the Democratic and Republican parties have proven so utterly incapable and unwilling to stop.'