Considering the quote, "United we stand, Divided we fall", what can we as Americans do to stem the divide?

Question

Our country seems to be teetering on what some would consider the most dangerous political slope in our history..with gallup polls reporting around a 14 percent favorable rating of congress and just over 20 percent favorable rating towards our president...Personally I think we need to hold emergency elections and clean out all of the political debris. I wish some of the politicians in office would take a look at themselves and realize they would be fired in any other job with those numbers and resign from office. I think we should start massive petitions to rescind the previous elections and start all over from scratch...

Answer 1

either fade away quietly or there is gonna be some blood in the streets of america. in a few years it just won't matter. i think i hear that great sucking sound sound again that ross perot mentioned a few years back. there something i can only call a cultural hemmorhage that the fools on the hill ignore. the politicians are blind or just plain fools. sad.

bottomline, you are correct. now what? is it possible to unite, to really come together and stand up to the media and those follows in dc? they really are good at dividing the majority down to manageable pockets to weed out one by one. although the internet might help. the continental boys had to hide in the bushes way back when. they were pretty determined weren't they?

i worry much less about terrorists then the single-minded mass media owners and the politicians. some people paid for the microphone and they get to talk. that is the media in my humble opinion. need to look closer than just calling it the left wing media. need to really know who is calling the crucial shots. i see larry king has the microphone tonight.

Answer 2

Insist that the Federal government follows the constitution, ie, repeal most federal laws as unconstitutional since they infringe on state powers. This would return power to the states and would make voting units more homogeneous. The reason there is a divide is because the more populous coastal regions are pushing their agenda on others where it is culturally repugnant, counterproductive, and leans towards tyranny. If laws in their own areas would reflect their views and not someone with foreign thinking, if their votes counted as much as folks from the coasts, then there would be no political divide. A democratic system has never worked for anything larger then a city state. The US Constitution recognizes this and attempted to set up many homogeneous democracies to be represented at the federal level as a republic with the federal level dealing ONLY with items of united importance - national defense, international relations, and interstate trade. How many federal laws do you know of that truly only deal with one of these three areas? That is the real problem. People in the interior simply have no voice; a condition called tyranny of the majority.

Your method may very well be one way of starting the fix.

Answer 3

Bush and Cheney could simply do us a favor and resign, but a lot of people might be irked with President Pelosi for the next year-and-a-half. It would be better if we could just hold an emergency election a year early like they do in other parliamentary systems. Our Constitution has no provision for that, however, and only gives us the remedy of impeachment, which, whether or not you think it is justified, would put the country through even more trauma. So I think we will have to stick it out until President Obama takes office, and then maybe things will get better.

Answer 4

It is quite apparent that the USA is now in a potential death spiral. The golden years are long gone. The damage done to our country by class polarization, dependance on welfare and subsidies, political corruption so endemic that we have no sense of American identity. We need a total moratorium on all immigration for 5 years, and a different system of taxation, clarification of who is our friend and who is not. The decay of America has been accelerated by groups so stupid that they deflect attention from the true issues. It is not even remotely possible to expect America to recover to its past golden years, without a significant cost. I have posted several replies to other similiar questions and the questions usually hinted at the type of answer desired and the truth is not flexible . Unfortunately most of the questions on such a critical issue....are asked by children..We live in a world of the "haves" and the "have nots".........the only thing keeping peace now is the presence of weapons and power. The shift has started in the power balance......India and China have both displaced the USA in key areas.......unless we are willing to undergo a type of "isolation", the USA can not recover without removing and neutralizing the upper 2 % of wealthy Americans and corporations. Changing our sense of fair and unfair.....as it applies to Christian values.....not as it applies to money and greed. The lessons of the past have not been remembered, we are making the same mistakes again....only this time we dont have the resources to recover. The true spirit of America will live on, even if America the country falls apart. We need to stand up and be proud to be American and not give a damn what other countries think. We need to start taking care of our own.........we owe it to America

Answer 5

Have candidates run campaigns based on issues that unite, not issues that divide. Karl Rove's ingenious strategy of picking a hot-button controversial issue, bring it into the spotlight, and take a side and hope there's more turnout from your side than the other side. Also, the concept of voting against a candidate rather than voting for one. These election strategies have turned the country into two bitterly divided camps. But when you look past gay rights, when you look past abortion, and when you look past stem cell research, you will find that the two sides have lots of common problems. Talk immigration, talk healthcare, talk economy, talk education, talk crime prevention, and you will unite the country once again.

Answer 6

We need to stop listening to these political pundits and politicians and open our damn eyes. Most all of us want the same damn things...we are just constantly bombarded with BS propaganda that makes us think we don't.

We all want prosperity, a safe place to live, good educations, good health care...and the freedom to do what we want to do as long as we are not harming anyone else.

But we keep listening to these assholes in Washington and on the corporate news networks that keep telling us we all want something different.

Answer 7

It is because this country is being sold under our feet. There are the ones that see it and the ones that don't. It doesn't matter we need someone to start looking out for the common good of all Americans and bring back the American Dream.We really need to impeach Bush and Cheney, fire all their friends and start over.

Answer 8

I agree that we need new leaders. Lately they seem to have hit a new low.

But I don't think it's going to work to try to recall them- some states have this but I'm pretty sure there is no presidential recall short of impeachment with conviction. And our president is immune to shame, it seems. So we have to get better ones elected next time, and demand that the congress keep this one in check.

In the meantime we all should get our criteria straight for what we want our president to do for us. It's only too clear that they are human and subject to errors in judgement and personal immorality. No matter who they are, they are subjected to a lot of stress. We can't expect them to be gods, nor should we worship them, nor should we allow them to set themselves above the law. They are our employees.

But we should expect that in matters of state, our leaders should be open and plain speaking. We have a right to know the truth about matters of state, and not be fed a pack of manipulative lies.

We have the right to know the true situation before asking our sons and daughters to lay down their lives for the cause. We have the right to expect that the campaigns of war will be laid out with a clear idea of what the goal is, and a plan to deal with all the possible results of our actions. Not charge into a country, gut the government, and throw it into years of chaos, and not have the personnel ready to keep order in the streets.

We have a right to expect that agents whose lives depend on their covers should not have their lives endangered by the petty vengeance of politicians.

And we have the right to expect that the president should work for the good of all the people of our country, not just a few rich friends.

We all have some of the blame- through our representatives we gave Bush the authority to declare war "as a negotiating tool" to get rid if Iraq's WMD's (remember WMD's?) and before the ink was dry he was declaring a war on "terror" which can never come to an end as conventional wars do. It was illegal for the congress to give up this power; nevertheless they allowed it and Bush used this as a justification to suspend the civil rights of the citizens, to issue lucrative "no-bid" war contracts to his friends, and try to declare himself king.

What were we thinking? The evidence of WMD's was never presented to congress; just assertions with no facts to back them up. And we have set the nation back 60 years- to pre-WWII status.

Answer 9

I agree, a lot of things have gone wrong that we can certainly blame on our politicians. However we, me included, should take some of the blame for not speaking out about things long before we got ourselves into the current situation.

Have any of our elected officials tried to stop the madness & follow the Constitutional guidelines?

YES ONLY ONE!!!!!

Ron Paul!!!

In my opinion he is Americas only hope for sound money, peace on earth, fiscal responsibility, limited future government, No Big Brother IRS, & a host of other things that will eventually make Americans Proud to be Americans again.
Thank you.
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Answer 10

I completely agree.
I am happy i get the chance to vote this time coming but ..wow our country is in some deep doo doo.