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No, blame not the independents, but our ‘raw’ democracy

An American business magnate and former politician Henry Ross Perot made an allusion about how crude politics is. He said, “War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules”. Politics thus far has proven to be such a lawless jungle, if the debate on Independent Candidates is anything to go by.

The question has been about how independent they are, given that they all support some presidential candidate and got their ‘independence’ after being felled at the party nomination.

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