How long does it take for the majority of Americans to get perspective on bad politics?

Question

Like the Civil Rights Movement.... most Americans agree that Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln were really on to something with the whole "freedom for everybody" thing.....

However, you still have a few wickedly clever people that will try to paint the ACLU, Jesse Jackson and the NAACP as "American terrorists"...

It's the same thing with the Nazi Regime.... everyone knows that Hitler was the bad guy.... but you have people that use his name as a comparison to some "anti-american liberal" person who is speaking up for equality....

It's all the same thing - Phelps, Limbaugh, KKK, Nazi, Al Qaeda, Coulter, Hussein, Bin Laden, Haliburton, Enron....

how long will it take us to squash the bug??? when do people finally end up "getting the picture"?

MLK - I agree with most of what you have said.... EXCEPT that Ross Perot woould have been good for this country....
Take a look at what Perot Systems Inc. has been up to lately, and you'll see that he is really just another Texas White Supremacist.... but less honest about it.... Everyone he works with and supports is a straight, white, christian male from Bush's neck of the woods (not that there's anything wrong with being that - but it's not exactly a haven of diversity).

Ross Perot is the kind of guy that shows up at the country club and thinks that Tiger Woods is there to be his caddy...

Answer 1

Unfortunately, it will end up taking eight years for the voters to realize it. It is our own fault when less than half of the eligible population votes.

It is not like it is hard to wake up half an hour early to go the the school gym and push the buttons...or stop by on your way home from work...or ask yor employer allow you to vote-which they are obligated to allow you to do.

If you have an excuse for not voting, I don't know if I want you to vote anyways. We've obviously gotten into a fine mess as a result of voters who don't think things through.

Answer 2

Wow - a loaded question...

It sounds like what you are really asking is "How long will it take for everyone to think like me?"

Politics make me sick and the two party system is so polarized. The vast majority of people subscribe to bad politics because they subscribe to one party or the other. The truth is - neither party can be unilaterally trusted to guide this nation.

I often think the best thing for this nation would have been for Ross Perot to win the presidency. Finally we would have broken the two-party mold and been ushered into a different realm of politics.

If you want to know what is hurting American politics - it's the R's and D's listed after everyone's name on Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. We are beyond the point of allowing people to think and hear what people have to say - and instead we think Republican equals Christian and Democrat equals "non."

That opens up another point. People are misled in the terms of liberal and conservative. They believe that conservative means conservative values (and liberal not). Actually these go back to the philosophy of each party. The republican party traditionally held the philosophy that less government is better for we live in a world where bad stuff will happen - but we need to let the people live. The Democratic party was built on a philosophy that with the right structure man can build a utopian society. Neither of these philosophies should be carried out completely.

The evil side of me wishes there were IQ tests at all polling stations with a minimum IQ required to vote.

There's my 2 cents!

MLK

Answer 3

People get wise to bad politics and do the only thing they can do which is not vote, except in a few conditions of petitioning government. Someone has to kick butt once and awhile, but I work on states and currently am trying to get rid of North Dakota who has the least violence per-capita and doesn't help the rest of US. Since no one cares about North Dakota I just might be able to do it. I figure I can then obtain a star for the Monarchy of Pennsylvania and everything will be alright one day!

Answer 4

You are right...Why do we have to recycle the old conflicts so many times? First we fight about slavery, then segregation, then gender, and now sexual orientation? Why can't people look at the phrase 'liberty and justice for all' and simply accept that 'all' means 'all.'

Answer 5

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.

Answer 6

after its far too late, and many of lives have been lost.

Answer 7

you are crazy