Politics is dumb and hypocritical!?

Question

Republicans only care about the wealthy and powerful (ie big multinational corp) and Democrats (especially their leaders) are lame and often hypocritical. The Democratic and Republican are POLITICAL parties just like the Nazi Party, Fasces Party of Italy, and Communist Party of the USSR. They can't be trusted. They gave us Watergate, the Vietnam War, and Abscam. They also have a monopoly on government powers.


These are only their good points! A politician can not help you he or she can only hurt you. Who makes money (over $1 billion) from all those sleazy campaign ads? Big Media companies that are supposed to give us the news!
We need a new party the American Party not like those Libertarian losers. Am I right or what?
BTW I'm the Chairman of the new American Party.

This is why many Americans don't vote! Part of the reason anyways. Break the Establishment!

Answer 1

seriously, the republicans don't ONLY care about the wealthy and powerful. my family, friends, and boyfriend and his military guys are all 100 percent republican and not wealthy, nor powerful.

are they both hypocritical? YES. but don't make stupid assumptions.

Answer 2

It looks like you took a conservative rant against liberals, and changed the words to make it a liberal rant against conservatives. I think it makes more sense the other way. Obama is king on meaningless sound bites. "binder of women", really? Is that a talking point?

Answer 3

Amen!
Is there a Vice Chairman position open?

Answer 4

I believe in promoting isocracy, or equal power in government, by focusing on Constitutional Ethics as a common standard of government. It may take a Moderate Progressive movement to negotiate on solutions where all parties agree. For my serious opinion on Constitutional government, see http://www.houstonprogressive.org/isocracy.html or
http://www.houstonprogressive.org/letters.html

For a silly Shakespearean spoof on bipartisan politics, see also http://www.houstonprogressive.org/jr-index.html

We don't need more parties, but we need a system of representing both individuals and groups equally by party of choice, such as proportional representation and consensus decision making.

To quote Thomas Jefferson "If I could not get to heaven, but with a party I would not go" I would have told Jefferson not to worry, that's not where the major parties are going!

Cheers, Emily Nghiem, Houston Progressive . Org

Answer 5

I agree with you, but first we need to get people in government that will change the election laws to let 3rd parties have their voices heard.. republicans will never do that, so vote democrat and put some pressure on them to give everyone equal media exposure.

Answer 6

I love politics, but i have a huge dislike against republicans.

democrats are nicer, unlike repubs. who just care about the wealthy and go to war killing 650,000 people in Iraq simply for oil.

but i like politics, it's like a hobby, i love argueing too.

Answer 7

US politic right now are neither the politic of the old Republican nor Democrat that your parents grew up knowing

Todays politic = The Bible of Leo Strauss;

one example : "Noble Lies" Lying to stupid people to keep them stupid is O.K.

In 2004 Adam Curtis produced a three-part documentary for the BBC on the threat from organised terrorism called the Power of Nightmares. This television documentary claimed that Strauss' teachings, among others, influenced neo-conservative and thus, United States foreign policy, especially following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Two students of Strauss, Wolfowitz and William Kristol, are cited, and Kristol discusses Strauss's influence in the film. Since they were students of Strauss, the documentary claims that their later political views and actions are a result of Strauss' philosophy and teaching. The central theme of the documentary is that the neoconservatives created myths to make the Soviet Union and terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة‎) appear to be better organized and coordinated, as well as more threatening than they actually were, and that such "nightmares" enabled the neoconservatives to gain disproportionate power in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations.

Answer 8

Your comments reflect a sense of frustration with both the political parties, Republicans and Democrats.

What you say applies in general to politicians all over the world. Basically, a person who becomes a politician has to be an opportunist, adept at the game of survival. He survives on tactical skill by using the mass media to his advantage.

Surely your statement does not include national heroes like Washington and Lincoln. You may also not mean to include Churchill, Roosevelt, Trueman, Kennedy and Nehru. None of them are alive today but the world recognizes their role in changing the course of history in war and peace.

Among the contemporary politicians, you may exclude Mandela too. Whether Carter and Clinton still enjoy your trust, you only know. I have nothing against them.

Another point that you made about the greed of politicians. Let's face it. If a politician is totally free from “greed”, he has to be someone like Mahatma Gandhi who said:

THERE IS ENOUGH IN THIS WORLD FOR EVERYONE'S NEED BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE'S GREED.

You see, there are exceptions to the rule. We cannot make a sweeping statement which applies to all politicians. If we are frustrated with some politicians, can we do without all of them?

They are statesmen who have changed the course of history. It was Nehru, not Gandhi, who has been India's most popular and successful prime minister.

Gandhi was a freedom fighter and a national hero. He was Nehru's mentor but Nehru was the one most qualified for the job of a prime minister.

Apparently, you want a national leader totally from the trappings from personal gain.

Answer 9

whateva what you said altough politics ruin the country