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Originally Posted by samhass
yet we are ripping each others throats out in the political threads. All of the candidates running in this election are self serving. IMHO, if we think any of them care about us over themselves, then we have been consuming another flavor of Kool-aid. Rather than fight amongst ourselves, why aren't we banding together to demand change from all of them.Every stinking one of them is a politician. It should be us against them..making them do our bidding. Instead, we all fight each other while they take our tax dollars and enjoy, misappropriate, waste and spend those dollars with what appears to be very slack oversight.
Neither party will fix this nation if we remain with the status quo.
We seem to have a lot of "**** and vinegar" fighting one another. What could we do by banding together and demanding that wrongs be righted? Many of our tax dollars seem to be thrown to the wind while many in this country lack health care and education. That is criminal. TOTVr's...please..we are few but our voices together can be heard. We have the net at our fingertips to spread the words of unity across this country.
I don't think any of the current crop running for office are worth us fighting over. IMHO.
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Sam, I could not disagree more. You say should demand "change" from all of them, but what does that mean? You and I often agree on political issues, but I'll bet the changes I want and the changes you want are vastly different. Throw in the lunatic liberal fringe and the ultra conservatives and you have a complete dichotomy of views and desires.
You cite as an example of national failures the current situation in education and health care. I tend to agree that both are major problems, as likely most do. HOWEVER, what are odds that my interpretation of the problem and even more so, my view of viable solutions, would bear any similarity to those of the Larry, Moe, and Shemp of the liberal left? Could we possible agree on school vouchers, teacher testing, elimination of tenure, dissolution of the NEA, etc.? What about mandatory health insurance, government run health, free (meaning taxpayer funded) health care for all?
Politics is an adversarial process. That's not necessarily bad. We each have our view, our prejudices, our desires. In the political arena, we fight for those things. If they are not worth the fight, they're evidently not that important to us.