It has been asked "HOW many times will you get betrayed by both parties before you wake up to the fact they are one in the same?"
What say you?
2007-08-07 06:58:36 · 15 answers · asked by ccruns 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think its a little suspicious that they worked together so diligently on the 1916 income tax, and haven't lost an election since then.
They need each other to maintain the illusion of choice. Its obvious that they have enough dirt on each other to bury themselves, but they will do what it takes to keep the other on life support. After all the rhetoric is done they end up supporting the same things. Its the most sophisticated one-party system ever created IMO.
Why didn't the Republicans do something about abortion they claim to hate so much? 6 years of an unfettered majority, but they have no incentive to 'win' an issue and remove it from the debate. Twenty, thirty, fourty years later and we're still arguing over this and universal healthcare! The debate doesn't change - our liberties and bank accounts are just chipped away as the government slowly centralizes more power.
2007-08-07 07:05:17 · answer #1 · answered by freedom first 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're correct that the moneyed power structure within our country isn't limited by political party--they can get by no matter who is in the White House. However, that said, the Democrats and Republicans are very different faces of that power structure. Just as sometimes we get a whole lot of rich CEO's in our administration (usually Republican), we also sometimes get younger idealists (usually Democrat)... and that difference often depends on the party.
It doesn't make a huge difference to the power people, but it makes a difference to the citizens who are still bound by the laws and customs of our nation.
2007-08-07 07:03:17 · answer #2 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No not really, they both bow and succumb to big business and special interests. We need a viable 3rd party to break this stranglehold on the American people. God help us all if one of the two groups of greedy bastards take control of the government again like the first part of the current regimes term.
2007-08-07 07:11:10 · answer #3 · answered by Chuck P 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes they are two seperate political parties that hold jointly all of the power of the United States. There are other parties like, libetarians, and constituionalist, but I consider myself an independant.
2007-08-07 07:05:12 · answer #4 · answered by lvillejj 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They're not the same. Anyone who watches politics and knows the core beliefs of each party knows they are very different. They do have similarities, like being corporately-sponsored and corrupt elitists who often are out of touch with the average American, but to say they're all the same amounts to demonstrating that someone really knows nothing about them.
2007-08-07 07:04:27 · answer #5 · answered by Frank 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are two parties at election time. Politicians morph into something else as soon as they get inside the Beltway. I think there is something in the Washington DC water supply.
2007-08-07 07:03:18 · answer #6 · answered by regerugged 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I sense it is more a shell game being played upon the populace...
Both parties are "me-first" centers of graft and corruption that focus only upon a power grab. Other than their base-rallying words, neither major party seems to truly care about the US or the people.
2007-08-07 07:05:34 · answer #7 · answered by outcrop 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They talk differently but at the end of the day they are the same.
2007-08-07 07:02:51 · answer #8 · answered by cattledog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they're opposite views of the same party. One extreme vs the other.
2007-08-07 07:02:29 · answer #9 · answered by Lily Iris 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's not a dime's worth of difference on how they vote. There is a difference on their campaign lies.
2007-08-07 07:02:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋