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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: rayvt 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Brk annual meeting questions,
Date: 04/25/25 10:42 AM
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How about party bosses not "fielding" candidates and instead letting voters choose? . Give all interested candidates a chance to run without party interference

Might as well wish for puppies and rainbows and soft gentle rain. For any organization where the top dogs have a conduit for power & riches, there is no way they intend to let the "little people" have any substantive say.

This goes for organizations as small as town councils & school councils, all the way up to nationwide political parties and entire nations.

It is ever thus, an integral part of the human condition.

We saw this perfectly in this last Democrat convention, and even earlier in the primaries where all the non-favored candidates all suddenly dropped out at once for no explained reason. The party leaders had no intention of letting the voters have any say. When it comes down to the wire, the gloves come off to expose the iron fist.

Note that I said this applies to EVERY organization.


All of which has nothing to do with BRK.
It should be moved to some other political board.
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