Quote:
Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
My goodness! Are you somehow suggesting that it's any different this time around? That this country has been "governed" by purely partisan politics for at least twenty years that I remember?
No, it's not funny that the Democrats all voted against Republican-sponsored legislation, any more than the opposite. What is shows is that for whatever reasons--but I think in the end it all boils down to money and power and special interests--our system of government is broken. It doesn't work. It's dysfunctional regardless of which party is in the majority.
If you're going to try to tell me that it would all be different if the GOP was in total control, I'd laugh. They were for eight years. See where that got us. Then the Democrats had control and it wasn't any better.
Now it's even more screwed up because we have the Tea Party, which appear to be a bunch of inexperienced, not too smart, my way or the highway ideologues. Maybe there are some others out there that embrace the same fiscal philosophies, but would be better at winning battle after battle instead of trying to win the war all in one shot. But it's sure not these guys.
|
On the surface it would appear you're correct, but I'm of the opinion that the parameters have changed in significant ways.
The Republican Party has to now deal with the Tea Party movement which is slowly and inextricably dragging the Party to it's conservative roots and demanding austerity. The last elections proved this and the next elections will confirm it if my guess is correct. The still in charge go along to get along leadership knows this and is balking, but their own election defeats will convince them that the base has awakened.
The Democrat Party is being controlled behind the scenes by the Socialist Progressives and our President is their front man. The major media is complicit and their ally. The push is on to convince the people of a "class war" even as government policies are destroying the fabric of our lives. The decaying American Dream is being portrayed as the result of the avarice of the rich, to the detriment of the working class, in the face of the new laws and regulations on major corporations, and increased taxes on small businesses that are destroying industry and job growth.
That's my basic analysis and I can hear the caterwauling now. Time is the avenger, and we'll see how it all plays out.