For all the hemming and hawing between Democrats and Republicans, we're becoming more and more a one party, totalitarian country. While each group holds on to a platform slightly different from the other, I'm feeling like both have been in power so long they've forgotten entirely about the people they're supposed to serve and are simply helping themselves instead. The difference between the two are boiling down to a handful of issues, like abortion, gun control, immigration and welfare, but when the laws actually get put down, both sides just work to write something to ensure they get elected next term and stay in power.
Although I disagree with their policies, I think if the Tea Party movement were to abandon the GOP and become a party in its own right, they'd be doing exactly what we need to have done now. You can talk all you want about the Libertarian Party or the Socialist Party of the USA, but how many of their candidates have been elected? I feel as if what the country needs now is for more movements like the Tea Party movement to be established from all ranges of political thought that maintain their independence from the Republicans and Democrats and campaign as parties of their own.
I've been thinking about this since sgreger1 said a while ago "Why is it you liberals always think conservatives are wrong?" First, I personally don't think that. Neither side is going to be 100% right ever. But the current dichotomy entrenches this mindset that one group is 100% right and the other is 100% wrong, with no middle ground, ever. Which is asinine. It should be painfully obvious to everyone that each side is going to have some great ideas, so okay ones, and some ideas they're going to want to pretend nobody ever mentioned they were so stupid. I think having four or five parties that actually had some sort of power would go a long way towards breaking down this system. With that many conflicting view points, it becomes more obvious that each side can contribute something, and I think asinine legislation like the PACT Act or bans on baggy pants could be avoided, or at least we could soften the blow somewhat. As the situation is now, we've got two groups of rich assholes who live lives totally out of touch with the people they represent, putting on a show of fighting each other, but they each have the others back whenever they see a major threat to their money or power.
That, and I hate the US media. They further exacerbate the problem, because they only show the biggest assholes, who are having the biggest pissing contest from either side. So, each group comes away from the news thinking the other is crazy, ignoring the sane, rational people who have well though out reasons for voting the way they do. Glenn Beck acts like if you voted for Obama then it stands to reason that you eat Christian babies for breakfast and use their blood to draw pentagrams on churches. I'm sure there's some liberal jerk out there with a radio show who acts like if you voted for George W. then you probably use panda slave labour to run your planet killing oil rig in a national park.
Anyone else who would like to see a big change in the current system of government?
Although I disagree with their policies, I think if the Tea Party movement were to abandon the GOP and become a party in its own right, they'd be doing exactly what we need to have done now. You can talk all you want about the Libertarian Party or the Socialist Party of the USA, but how many of their candidates have been elected? I feel as if what the country needs now is for more movements like the Tea Party movement to be established from all ranges of political thought that maintain their independence from the Republicans and Democrats and campaign as parties of their own.
I've been thinking about this since sgreger1 said a while ago "Why is it you liberals always think conservatives are wrong?" First, I personally don't think that. Neither side is going to be 100% right ever. But the current dichotomy entrenches this mindset that one group is 100% right and the other is 100% wrong, with no middle ground, ever. Which is asinine. It should be painfully obvious to everyone that each side is going to have some great ideas, so okay ones, and some ideas they're going to want to pretend nobody ever mentioned they were so stupid. I think having four or five parties that actually had some sort of power would go a long way towards breaking down this system. With that many conflicting view points, it becomes more obvious that each side can contribute something, and I think asinine legislation like the PACT Act or bans on baggy pants could be avoided, or at least we could soften the blow somewhat. As the situation is now, we've got two groups of rich assholes who live lives totally out of touch with the people they represent, putting on a show of fighting each other, but they each have the others back whenever they see a major threat to their money or power.
That, and I hate the US media. They further exacerbate the problem, because they only show the biggest assholes, who are having the biggest pissing contest from either side. So, each group comes away from the news thinking the other is crazy, ignoring the sane, rational people who have well though out reasons for voting the way they do. Glenn Beck acts like if you voted for Obama then it stands to reason that you eat Christian babies for breakfast and use their blood to draw pentagrams on churches. I'm sure there's some liberal jerk out there with a radio show who acts like if you voted for George W. then you probably use panda slave labour to run your planet killing oil rig in a national park.
Anyone else who would like to see a big change in the current system of government?
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