If neither republicans or democrats are right about anything....what should we do?

Answer 1

Vote Libertarian. http://www.lp.org

If the are no Libertarian candidates, then vote Independent. But most importantly, research the candidate ahead of time, know what they stand for. Just voting for the guy who is least objectionable is not satisfactory.

Answer 2

Odd that you should phrase it that way...

The answer is:

For those of you who are of legal age to vote, have not had your voting privilidges revoked due to felony/felonies, and are a United States citizen, you have the opportunity to choose how you show your displeasure or support called voting.

For those of you who cannot vote, are living in the United States, but are not a citizen: We value freedom of speech but even free speech has a limit or a line that should not be crossed. Protest or show your support if you feel you should, however, do it respectfully.

Answer 3

Use the brain that the good Lord gave you. Get all of the info you can. Decide what is MOST important to YOU. Decide what is LEAST important to YOU.

Pick the party (including one of the independents, if you prefer) which has the most of your important ideals.

Anything having anything to do with humans is imperfect, don't you think?

Answer 4

The only people saying the two parties are the same are Republicans. You cannot possibly defend how they've been governing the country for the last 6 years.

Answer 5

At the point your realize this, you have to address the entire system. It is the sobering realization that there is no tweak, initiative, bill, directive, awakening, vote or reform that will be sufficient to solve the problem.

The problem, of course, being that every decision that is being made right now is making America a worse place to live.

Our voting system is archaic and is electronically comprimised by the incumbency. We now have a central bank which has too much power. The tax code is hoplessley overcomplicated and easily manipulated. Power is overcentralized in geographical location and in the executive branch. External powers too easily purchase our assets and internal powers too easily hide theirs externally so as to avoid scrutiny and tax responsibility.

The social contract has dissolved completely. Factions have evolved into partisan interests which have no interest in harmonious coexistence. Immigrantion law has no principled, comprehensible basis. Technological innovation has barely any moral regulation. Police power is barely checked.

Social mobility is almost gone and there is a permanent underclass.(which is what our ancestors came here to escape in the first place!) There is this war against drugs that no one even pretends is winnable anymore. Schools are in chaos. Bribery is legal, and is considered reputable.

We are in foreign quagmires and are incapable of mitigating the most obvious and predictable of natural disasters, such as Katrina.

Why anyone would be proud to be an American at this point in history entirely escapes me. If we were a leader in the world at one point, we have led the world to nowhere, and they are laughing at us behind our backs. And some of them are shooting at us. 3000 dead in NYC, 3000 dead in Iraq, only a matter of time before the next shoe falls.

If ever a country was in need of a peaceful revolution, it is America. But this is impossible. The plutarchs and theocrats, with their fanatical, well-armed 'patriots' would shoot any child or grandmother down in cold blood who dared to prevent the operation of the stock market and street traffic as usual. Much moreso any Jefferson, Washington, or Adams, if they were lucky enough to get so far without being pre-emptively jailed as a terrorist.

Even a revolution would like just enthrone a new authoritarian regime, possibly Stalinistic in nature. No Lenin or Bolivar is going to come to the rescue, and if they did it would shatter into a new nightmare.

Since it is clearly unreasonable to attempt a direct confrontation that would lead to a convention for a new constitution, (or to attempt secession), there are only two remaining options.

The first would be outright flight. Leave this place, get away and watch it's approaching collapse from a safe distance. This is largely a function of how much money you have and which underpopulated country might welcome you.(both of these are major obstacles for all but the most skilled professionals)

The second is to evolve alternative lifestyles underground. Reject authoritarianism, television, government, economic systems, standard behavioral norms. Seek to design your lifestyle to what you what, live with likeminded friends, develop levels of trust that are totally foreign to the system. Make zines, not magazines.

Of course, seeking to go so obviously against the grain will be severely punished in America if you are found out. Sometimes with ostracism, sometimes with unemployment, sometimes with prison. This is not a free country, after all. America is ruled by a monocultural oligarchy, so you're only chance is to remain unnoticed, pretending to conform when necessary. Following the small laws, so you can break the big ones, as it is often suggested. Occasionally writing subversive emails from work.

The American dream is independence, self-reliance, the melting pot of an open society with very loose class boundaries, where everyone is taken care of on a basic level. Where people can raise families without interference from kings and walmart heirs. Where everyone gets a say in what society decides, democracy.

To assert these principles now is a crime. Some might say it's a crime of idealism, but it's a real crime against American law. If you fight for these things, you will have legal issues, you will be told that the law says they are impossible.(if you write them on yahoo answers, the f.b.i. might fiind you, track you to your job, tell your boss, and you you might lose your job) If you try to stop environmental devastation, monopolistic manipulations, economic aristocracy, collosal waste, or to simply exist free from the system, the system will come and get you.

When you reject the notion that freedom is slavery, or, in this case that the American dream is a small house with a yard in which to raise your children to die in foreign lands to further empirical spheres of influence while billionaires decide which multiple choices you will get to choose from, it is a crime.

Eventually, language will change to adapt Orwell's term for this, but until then we can just accept that the true American Dream of 2006 is Crimethink.(see 1984)

Lovers and dreamers hide in the shadows, biding their time, dodging flashing lights, protecting their minds from the loud noise.

So, the answer to what we should do? Do It Yourself, don't rely on this system for anything, and if you do cool enough things, you'll find allies. In this case, you asked a cool enough question that you found me.

Otherwise, there is this book you might like:

[Days of War, Nights of Love]

But shhhhhh, it's underground. If these things were to fall into the wrong hands.......

Answer 6

Time for a change. Think independently. Vote Libertarian.

Answer 7

Vote for the Federalists or Whigs.

Answer 8

I don't think they would know how to help the country if it came up and bit them on the butt. Maybe we can stage a coup like they did in Thailand :-)

Answer 9

We should vote for the person we think is right. Regardless of party label.

Answer 10

vote for a third party/form your own third party

really we need to change the laws to allow third parties to be created have an equal chance of winning elections