As I have said in response to some of your other articles, our founders, at least a good number of them, were NOT in favor of any kind of party system. As you have pointed out several times, parties muddy the waters and end up being self serving and not caring one bit for the people they are SUPOSED to be representing.
The founders also never intended for SERVICE of ones neighbors to be a "career choice" making above average pay and garnering WAY above average health care benefits. It was intended to be a brief pause in your regular life to, as I said before, SERVE your neighbors and make sure their views were represented at the meetings of state reps.
It is astounding how so far off target this country has become since it's founding. I have no doubt that the men that died to win our freedom from the tyranny of king george would be DISGUSTED with where we have ended up.
Our flavors seem to be "Would you like a scoop of corruption with a sprinkling of 'Democrat' or a sprinkling of 'Republican'".
This is a huge subject and the problems of our government won't be fixed by just one or two major tweaks. In a way, I feel like our nation has grown too big and too distant from it's founding. Some people may hate it but a shift back to more power at the state level (and a lot less at the Federal level) could help. But even then our states are "too huge". Compare the population of a single state with the population of the entire original colonies! With this many people it's very hard to get a representative government!
The concept of a small and non-intrusive government has been long lost.
I have contemplated a wild scenario where Trump is elected again and he makes a stunning decision 6 months in to renounce his Republican membership and goes full tilt independent.....
I'd love it, if he actually had any idea what the Constitution looks like. He made some great policy decisions. He also made some incredibly horrible and unconstitutional decisions. I just can't get behind him.
Trump could ALMOST get away with going independent now, but he does need that endorsement unfortunately. It's pitiful that we are stuck with whatever 2 candidates they shove at us. Too many people are too scared to venture out from the cliques they deem as the COOL or POPULAR kids in school. Or, as Chad put it, they are scared to try another flavor, for any number of reasons.
As I have said in response to some of your other articles, our founders, at least a good number of them, were NOT in favor of any kind of party system. As you have pointed out several times, parties muddy the waters and end up being self serving and not caring one bit for the people they are SUPOSED to be representing.
The founders also never intended for SERVICE of ones neighbors to be a "career choice" making above average pay and garnering WAY above average health care benefits. It was intended to be a brief pause in your regular life to, as I said before, SERVE your neighbors and make sure their views were represented at the meetings of state reps.
It is astounding how so far off target this country has become since it's founding. I have no doubt that the men that died to win our freedom from the tyranny of king george would be DISGUSTED with where we have ended up.
Our flavors seem to be "Would you like a scoop of corruption with a sprinkling of 'Democrat' or a sprinkling of 'Republican'".
This is a huge subject and the problems of our government won't be fixed by just one or two major tweaks. In a way, I feel like our nation has grown too big and too distant from it's founding. Some people may hate it but a shift back to more power at the state level (and a lot less at the Federal level) could help. But even then our states are "too huge". Compare the population of a single state with the population of the entire original colonies! With this many people it's very hard to get a representative government!
The concept of a small and non-intrusive government has been long lost.
I have contemplated a wild scenario where Trump is elected again and he makes a stunning decision 6 months in to renounce his Republican membership and goes full tilt independent.....
I'd love it, if he actually had any idea what the Constitution looks like. He made some great policy decisions. He also made some incredibly horrible and unconstitutional decisions. I just can't get behind him.
Trump could ALMOST get away with going independent now, but he does need that endorsement unfortunately. It's pitiful that we are stuck with whatever 2 candidates they shove at us. Too many people are too scared to venture out from the cliques they deem as the COOL or POPULAR kids in school. Or, as Chad put it, they are scared to try another flavor, for any number of reasons.
Yes. People are now functioning on fear and cortisol....