Great civics lesson. I hope those that never had the opportunity to benefit from a civics class in high school pay attention.
Each side of the aisle wants to point fingers at their counterparts on the other side for the MASSIVE mess that our government has created for US financially. Truth be told, it is BOTH sides that have created this monster. Granted, the democrats tend to spend MORE overall BUT, the "conservative" party doesn't truly conserve anything. They just throw money at other things and hope We the People don't notice that we are being played in a different way than how the leftists play us. EITHER way we are being played for fools because we keep electing the same people over and over again while thinking things will be better THIS time. I remember hearing that the definition for insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.
It is amazing how when someone new gets elected and sent to DC to represent us that they fall in line with the old way of doing things. Their fresh ideas and ideals vanish almost overnight. There have been some exceptions over the last decade or so. But, even they have had trouble getting anything NEW done because everyone else is on that same ole bandwagon.
There ARE a number of us that are sick of the abuses of power by our government and our numbers are growing more quickly than ever before. I pray that the changes that *I* so badly wish to see happen within my lifetime. If they do not I can rest assured that I have done my part, as small as it may be in the grand scheme, to set the ball on the tee for a future generation to drive it down the fairway.
Bottom line is, the government overreach and abuses of power MUST STOP.
I understand your frustration. I too am frustrated and have been trying to get involved in as many ways as possible to help change things. Honestly, I don't think things can truly change without first eliminating the two-party system. As it stands, we have what are essentially two corporations (the RNC and DNC) determining our options for voting, and most people simply vote for the person with their preferred letter next to the name (or, in states where they are able, straight party ticket). We're sold a bill of goods that choice A is better (or the lesser evil) than choice B.
If we could get to a point where candidates were running on their own merits rather than a party platform (or being endorsed by a party), I think that would make a tremendous difference. Instead, the parties work to protect their own favored candidates, which just perpetuates the machinery that is already in place. That's why so many who win the Republican primaries are not actually conservative, and why so many who win in Democrat primaries are little different from outright communists.
Somehow, the RNC and DNC need to be eliminated so elections will no longer be manipulated by them. I don't, however, at this point, see how to accomplish this herculean feat.
Great civics lesson. I hope those that never had the opportunity to benefit from a civics class in high school pay attention.
Each side of the aisle wants to point fingers at their counterparts on the other side for the MASSIVE mess that our government has created for US financially. Truth be told, it is BOTH sides that have created this monster. Granted, the democrats tend to spend MORE overall BUT, the "conservative" party doesn't truly conserve anything. They just throw money at other things and hope We the People don't notice that we are being played in a different way than how the leftists play us. EITHER way we are being played for fools because we keep electing the same people over and over again while thinking things will be better THIS time. I remember hearing that the definition for insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.
It is amazing how when someone new gets elected and sent to DC to represent us that they fall in line with the old way of doing things. Their fresh ideas and ideals vanish almost overnight. There have been some exceptions over the last decade or so. But, even they have had trouble getting anything NEW done because everyone else is on that same ole bandwagon.
There ARE a number of us that are sick of the abuses of power by our government and our numbers are growing more quickly than ever before. I pray that the changes that *I* so badly wish to see happen within my lifetime. If they do not I can rest assured that I have done my part, as small as it may be in the grand scheme, to set the ball on the tee for a future generation to drive it down the fairway.
Bottom line is, the government overreach and abuses of power MUST STOP.
The only way to rectify the out-of-control government spending is to take the government back and return it to its Constitutional role.
I didn't say it would be easy nor that I know how we can actually accomplish it. I just know it needs to be done.
I understand your frustration. I too am frustrated and have been trying to get involved in as many ways as possible to help change things. Honestly, I don't think things can truly change without first eliminating the two-party system. As it stands, we have what are essentially two corporations (the RNC and DNC) determining our options for voting, and most people simply vote for the person with their preferred letter next to the name (or, in states where they are able, straight party ticket). We're sold a bill of goods that choice A is better (or the lesser evil) than choice B.
If we could get to a point where candidates were running on their own merits rather than a party platform (or being endorsed by a party), I think that would make a tremendous difference. Instead, the parties work to protect their own favored candidates, which just perpetuates the machinery that is already in place. That's why so many who win the Republican primaries are not actually conservative, and why so many who win in Democrat primaries are little different from outright communists.
Somehow, the RNC and DNC need to be eliminated so elections will no longer be manipulated by them. I don't, however, at this point, see how to accomplish this herculean feat.