2008-07-20, 11:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 2008-07-21, 12:01 AM by Schrodinger.)
[SIZE="2"]-Originally posted on FlowsionMS by me.-[/SIZE]
[SIZE="3"]I largely apologize for my inadequacy in substantiating my view on the political candidates and the issues involved. And I also apologize if the points I'm making have already been made. But I am largely curious as to why many of you are stuck discussing McCain and Obama?
Personally, I'm vacillating in my decision to either choose Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party who has a previous history of being a former congressman and also a U.S. attorney for Georgia or Jesse Johnson who is the candidate for the Green Party. My personal indecisiveness in this issue is because I like both candidates after watching them and listening to their views. I also like both parties and the inherent concept both strive to accomplish.
Our first President George Washington warned our country of developing a bipartisan political system due to the cogs and corruption that will ensue. His prediction has substantial application in light of modern American politics. I'm so disillusioned by mainstream politics being corrupted by pork-barrel legislation, gerrmandering, election lawsuits [Bush vs. Gore], fillibusters, soft cash, slander, ect. That I cannot trust either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. But it is not for these reasons alone that I defect from main stream political voting.
When candidate Barack Obama served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee early in 2007, the senator deferred from issuing policy regarding missile defense, counterterrosim, and concern over the waning commitment of European countries to NATO. I do not approve of candidate John McCain either. At first I believed he was a man who wanted to withdraw and deferred from the Republican party. But on closer inspection, he appears to be a man who also walks the same line as the Republican party in terms of policy and treatment of Iraq.
I apologize. These men might make a difference to our country. But I think that it is an extremely small possibility since they are bogged down by bipartisan politics. They have played all the games, won the support of their party, and will continue to balance the line between pleasing their party and pleasing the people.
Our country's politics has no longer become about the people but more about keeping power hungry mongrels who have already assumed power to keep them in power. Examining how much is spent on advertisements and making the American people BELIEVE that their only choice is to vote Republican or Democrat, it apparently pays off. We have had a long history of corruption, debt, and recession because we allowed this bipartisan system to grip a hold of our nation. However, instead of seeking reform, a majority of us realize that voting for other parties will probably not matter and defect to one of the two parties. This is no longer about the right of the people, but has become a game for the elite.
I highly doubt McCain or Obama can cause reform. They might cause ripples in the waters but I'm looking for a candidate who can cause torrents, floods, and who can change the dynamic of the jagged path we are walking as a country. Look at the horrid debt we have accumulated. The sad part is, we have become used to this atrocity. We allows Presidents and Congress to raise the National Debt. We allow our country to go into recession. And we continue the process by employing parties who have been in power to keep their power and to continue this terrible cycle every single time.
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We need a significant change to change the mentality we have adopted as Americans. We have to make our Presidents assume more responsibility. We have to make our leaders admit the truth. To come out and say, "We fucked up. Let's leave. We're only adding more fuel to the fire."
We're not super hero martyrs. We're not perfect. We're a fucked up country. And we love our country for it's imperfections. But we have no right to force Iraq to become our form of ideal-democracy when our country is not run as an ideal-democracy. When we have economic problems on are own hands why should we recommend another country to follow our model? This is not democracy. This is political-strategem. Setting Iraq up to be a political-counterforce to the other Middle Eastern states as a possible origin of influence is not right. The Iraqi people deserve to pick their own government, deserve to have their own freedom, and deserve their own form of democracy regardless of what we as Americans think is the right thing to do.
We need a leader who has not been tainted by the bipartisan political process of lies and decent. Of pure self-preserving bullshit of helping the politician over the people. I believe in my right to vote in a democratic nation, not an oligarhic nation run by two super-power parties.
I believe that the Libertarian Party and the Green Party are moving in the right direction. They won't win this election nor may they ever win in the history of American politics. But one cannot deny one's right to have hope in a government that is truly run by the people and not by a community fooled by false dichotomies established by the bipartisan political process.
I'm sorry if I seem condescending and I know I am down right rude. But I thank you if you read all that and still respond politely. I will read your posts. And I do understand that my points have flaws. But these are my views as an American and what I feel should be the American right to democracy.[/SIZE]
[SIZE="3"]I largely apologize for my inadequacy in substantiating my view on the political candidates and the issues involved. And I also apologize if the points I'm making have already been made. But I am largely curious as to why many of you are stuck discussing McCain and Obama?
Personally, I'm vacillating in my decision to either choose Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party who has a previous history of being a former congressman and also a U.S. attorney for Georgia or Jesse Johnson who is the candidate for the Green Party. My personal indecisiveness in this issue is because I like both candidates after watching them and listening to their views. I also like both parties and the inherent concept both strive to accomplish.
Our first President George Washington warned our country of developing a bipartisan political system due to the cogs and corruption that will ensue. His prediction has substantial application in light of modern American politics. I'm so disillusioned by mainstream politics being corrupted by pork-barrel legislation, gerrmandering, election lawsuits [Bush vs. Gore], fillibusters, soft cash, slander, ect. That I cannot trust either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. But it is not for these reasons alone that I defect from main stream political voting.
When candidate Barack Obama served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee early in 2007, the senator deferred from issuing policy regarding missile defense, counterterrosim, and concern over the waning commitment of European countries to NATO. I do not approve of candidate John McCain either. At first I believed he was a man who wanted to withdraw and deferred from the Republican party. But on closer inspection, he appears to be a man who also walks the same line as the Republican party in terms of policy and treatment of Iraq.
I apologize. These men might make a difference to our country. But I think that it is an extremely small possibility since they are bogged down by bipartisan politics. They have played all the games, won the support of their party, and will continue to balance the line between pleasing their party and pleasing the people.
Our country's politics has no longer become about the people but more about keeping power hungry mongrels who have already assumed power to keep them in power. Examining how much is spent on advertisements and making the American people BELIEVE that their only choice is to vote Republican or Democrat, it apparently pays off. We have had a long history of corruption, debt, and recession because we allowed this bipartisan system to grip a hold of our nation. However, instead of seeking reform, a majority of us realize that voting for other parties will probably not matter and defect to one of the two parties. This is no longer about the right of the people, but has become a game for the elite.
I highly doubt McCain or Obama can cause reform. They might cause ripples in the waters but I'm looking for a candidate who can cause torrents, floods, and who can change the dynamic of the jagged path we are walking as a country. Look at the horrid debt we have accumulated. The sad part is, we have become used to this atrocity. We allows Presidents and Congress to raise the National Debt. We allow our country to go into recession. And we continue the process by employing parties who have been in power to keep their power and to continue this terrible cycle every single time.
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q45/P...bt_log.png
We need a significant change to change the mentality we have adopted as Americans. We have to make our Presidents assume more responsibility. We have to make our leaders admit the truth. To come out and say, "We fucked up. Let's leave. We're only adding more fuel to the fire."
We're not super hero martyrs. We're not perfect. We're a fucked up country. And we love our country for it's imperfections. But we have no right to force Iraq to become our form of ideal-democracy when our country is not run as an ideal-democracy. When we have economic problems on are own hands why should we recommend another country to follow our model? This is not democracy. This is political-strategem. Setting Iraq up to be a political-counterforce to the other Middle Eastern states as a possible origin of influence is not right. The Iraqi people deserve to pick their own government, deserve to have their own freedom, and deserve their own form of democracy regardless of what we as Americans think is the right thing to do.
We need a leader who has not been tainted by the bipartisan political process of lies and decent. Of pure self-preserving bullshit of helping the politician over the people. I believe in my right to vote in a democratic nation, not an oligarhic nation run by two super-power parties.
I believe that the Libertarian Party and the Green Party are moving in the right direction. They won't win this election nor may they ever win in the history of American politics. But one cannot deny one's right to have hope in a government that is truly run by the people and not by a community fooled by false dichotomies established by the bipartisan political process.
I'm sorry if I seem condescending and I know I am down right rude. But I thank you if you read all that and still respond politely. I will read your posts. And I do understand that my points have flaws. But these are my views as an American and what I feel should be the American right to democracy.[/SIZE]
