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Originally Posted by Scribbler1
Why not? It's our country, not theirs, and if we get together and say that's what we want, they had better start DOING it.
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Well, what is campaigning? It's people saying (1) I (or th person I support) want to be elected to office X, (2) This is why I (or th person I support) should be elected, or (3) This is what my (his/her) views on policy are.
To stop people from campaigning, you'd effectively have to stop people from describing what they thing gov. policy should be and forbid them from telling anyone who they wanted to see elected to public office.
Not only would it be a blatant violation of free speech, it would also be completely unenforceable; you'd effectively be outlawing discussions of politics in an election year.
And, finally, it would give massive power to the incumbents since they effectively "campaign" through the actions they take in office.