| Some one posed this question yesterday and I thought, Wow!, what a loaded question. I believe I went beyond the limited scope of their question, but I definitely had an answer for him.Two things the Democrat and the Republican Parties are not, true to their roots, nor to the founding father’s original ideals. The Democrat party used to champion equality of personal liberties. Today, they champion entitlements. At one time, they believed in giving a hand up. Now, they believe in the hand out. Once upon a time they desired to help you to help yourself. Present agenda is to take care of the masses from the cradle to the grave. They have become a socialist party. Aside from the ellitist, the average Democrat voter recieves the majority of their sustenance from the government through the seizure of earnings and the redistribution of it to the masses. So, how do we head this off?The Rublican party has corroded as well. Actually, it’s divided itself into splinter groups. There are several smaller political ideologies which the sharing of the name Republican is the only thing they have in common. The extremist believe they are conservative. The genuiene conservative can not be heard. Within the two extremes of the Republican party you can find 4 to 6 examples of party ideology, depending on definition used. While the democrats are busy meddling with our economic freedoms and dulling our “Pursuit of Happiness” the Republicans are stripping away our personal freedoms and warping our “Right to Liberty”. While the Democrats are pandering to those who want to be taken care of, the Republicans are pandering to those who want to direct my personal actions under their moral ideals.If we do not find an alternative to our current two party system and get back to the original ideals of the Constitution we are in deep doo-doo. Well, how else should I put it? It may not affect old fogies like me, but my grandkids are going to see a different America from what we have known. When the time comes, will the citizens realize the reasoning for the second amendment or will the great experiment come to it’s finality. |
May 20, 2007 at 4:48 pm |
Yes! The two party system is indeed what ails this country. When we cut through what both the repubs AND the dems SAY. When we look at what they DO, actions speaking louder then words. We then SEE that the problem isn’t what they SAY they disagree about, but what the AGREE to DO. Election after election, we get conned and vote for Tweedledee or Tweedledum. Whomsoever gets in things always get worse for the rest of us. We must stop taking part in their phony “debate” and withdraw our consent from BOTH parties. We can do this by supporting any of the “third parties ” instead.