We have to rip open this two-party duopoly and have it challenged by a serious
third party that will talk about education reform, without worrying about offending
unions; financial reform, without worrying about losing donations from Wall Street;
corporate tax reductions to stimulate jobs, without worrying about offending the
far left; energy and climate reform, without worrying about offending the far right
and coal-state Democrats; and proper health care reform, without worrying about
offending insurers and drug companies.
I disagree. I don't think the problem is with the two parties. I think the problem is with Americans period. No one forced people to vote for Bush in 2000 and there was considerable evidence before he was elected that he and Cheney were a problem. In fact, there was enough evidence that an apolitical guy like me was alerted. For the first time in my life, I stayed up late watching the returns and got very upset when FLA flip flopped.
By 2004, there was more than enough evidence that Bush/Cheney were a mess but again, Americans gladly voted for them. Why? Because they gave them a free ride in the form of tax cuts.
In the last two years, the Dems have done a lot for people in this country. What is the reaction? The teapers. The white people are not happy. Why? They don't want to share with the non whites in this country. Americans don't want to do what's best for the country. They want to do what's best for their own particular self interests...for their race.
Therein lies the problem and the corruption of the American dream. We've never accepted that we are hodge podge of religions and races......at least the white people haven't. And now that whites in this country are faced with the prospect of becoming a minority, they don't like it. And why are they faced with that prospect? Because they are not having enough children. And why aren't they having more children? Because they don't want the economic depravation that more children would cause. They are their own worse enemy but they refuse to see that.
This whole thing has become a big joke. The parties, the systems, organizations etc are not the problem.......they still could work.......the probem is the people who make them up. We could have 14 parties and it wouldn't make a difference. People aren't willing to compromise. You, koan, aren't willing to accept not getting everything on your wishlist. That's the same with every damn American. Everyone wants exactly everything on their wishlist and nothing less.......and they sure as hell don't want to share.
America is in decline because of its unwillingness to truly accept its raison d'etre for the past 250 years. "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free".....we never really bought it. It was just sentimental claptrap for the masses. And when those poor and huddled got here they were railroaded into ghettos and became cheap labor for our factories. Americans need to stop looking for pie in the sky solutions.......when the solutions are much closer to the ground and much more basic.
And forget decline.......we are as close to civil war as we have been since 1865. If Americans don't start growing up and fast, and taking responsibility for the mess they have created, that civil war will happen. Mark my words! |
