Do you care about America?

Question

Enough to end this why do liberals do this? why are conservatives like this? Do you realize we are all Americans and who is elected into office will effect us all the same way! I understand people have different ideas on the ways things should be run, but instead of calling each other stupid names, why not actually try to present facts on why what you think is right and pose valid arguments regarding the issues… What is important right now is the state of country and who we need to put into office to fix it… calling each other out for dumb irrelevant things won’t resolve anything…

Answer 1

It was a good question so I gave the answer a lot of thought.

I'd say that we need to understand that party is pretty much meaningless. The two parties may pander to different extreme bases, but where the rubber meets the road they are all in bed with the same interests, and for the political moderates to believe that they are likely to get a better deal from either party is a bit delusional. The net effect of the parties' pandering to their extreme bases is only to make it nigh on impossible for them to talk to one another and to do the genuine business of the people. The utter failure of the republican majority to address the real needs of the people before 2006 and the failure of the democratic majority to do so now illustrates this point nicely, I think.

We don't really run our country, the corporations do, and it is to their advantage to have us chewing each other apart over issues that long ago were ripped out of our hands.

Another part of the problem is the corporate news media. The left likes to portray Fox as "Faux News" and the right likes to call CNN "The Voice of the Enemy." In terms of straight news reporting there is little to distinguish them, but how much hard news reporting do they do? Not much. Most of what passes for "news" these days is nothing but slanted commentary and talking heads yelling at each other. The more vicious the commentary, the better they like it because they can get more people to tune in that way, but they are really doing the country a grave disservice because their goal is not to inform but rather to sensationalize. Is it any wonder then that so many people have managed to confuse partisan backbiting with genuine political discourse? We have allowed the entire concept of political discourse to become degraded because that concept is molded in large part by corporate news organizations that appear to be modeled on the WWF.

Add to that the federal takeover of our public schools, which is having the effect of systematically dumbing down the voter base in the name of facially noble but ultimately superficial social goals, and you have your answer. In the average public school, critical thinking is undervalued. Now, rather than argue about the various merits and demerits of some of those social goals, I'll say only that I do not find this to be a healthy development, as it only serves to fuel the so called "culture war".

We are convincing ourselves that we are engaged in a genuine war for the "soul of the nation" because of the blind spots possessed by each extreme. The far right always makes the mistake of believing that cultural values are universal and the left always makes the mistake of believing that human nature can to any great extent be altered. They both make the mistake of believing that these things can be legislated. The far right is appalled by what they view as the destructive excesses of the left, and the left is equally appalled by any attempt to limit what they regard as matters of personal self determination. The farther apart the two extremes become, the less able the moderates are to bridge them. If the moderates should continue to be shouted down, the net result is likely to be paralysis and an increasing inability of the people to govern themselves. Deep down in their respective psyches, the extreme right fears the unelected federal courts for what they regard as judicial usurpations of the sovereignty of the people, while the far left fears the ballot box because historically, popular sovereignty hasn't worked out so well for them in America. This is a recipe for disaster.

What we are witnessing is an object lesson in exactly how totalitarian regimes can be born out of nominally democratic institutions. Check it out... the fall of Athenian democracy, the decay of the Roman republic into empire, the collapse of the Weimar Republic into Nazism... history is replete with examples even if no analogy is perfect, and that is only what happens when the right wins. When the left wins, you can get horrors such as the French Revolution, Stalinist Communism, Mao's Cultural Revolution and the genocide of the Khmer Rouge. One has to wonder what there is to choose between the two extremes.

The greatest threat is neither the far right per se nor is it the far left, rather it is the increasing inability of the right and left to engage in civil discourse and the decreasing political influence the moderates are able to wield.

Anyway, I must say that whatever your political persuasion, I agree with your sentiments.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I agree with you completely. The division between both major political parties is pretty big right now. They can't agree on anything. It's true...nobody really presents facts but instead it is pathetic excuses or insinuations. Nothing will ever get done! Special interest groups get what they want...politicians can further their careers by doing what the special interest groups want and like you said...our problems need to be fixed. Not smoothed over...but FIXED! I would never want to even imagine what it is like to be President. With all the political BS going on in Washington...I'm surprised anything ever gets done...period!..

Answer 4

I care, Hon, but it's getting harder and harder to.
I recall a time when corporations didn't run America. I recall a time when the government followed the wishes of the people. I recall a time when it wasn't absolutely necessary for both parties of a marriage to work, in order to keep body and soul together. I recall a time when plentiful manufacturing jobs created the U.S. middle class. And I recall a time in which people of all races, religions and ethnicities called for one another to all work together.
No more. In my fifty+ years I never dreamed I'd see this nation in the state it's in now. I'm ready to give up on it, and if I had half a chance I'd move to Canada or Europe.

Answer 5

yeah i care about America.... but you can voice your opinion on top of the world so all can hear and no one will acknowledge that they heard anything..Michael Moore for president... seems like he is the only man that will produce what everyone is saying.. i am tired asking what i can do for my country.. it`s time my country did for us..i have been working since i was 14 and paying taxes.. i am now 44 and i am tired.. giving and giving and still our country is going further into the hole.. and look what crawled out? president bush not once but twice.. i am sick..how do we move forward when we are stuck in a situation that has no end in site..

Answer 6

I think I do,I gave my life to protect it.Thank God,I didn't pay the ultimate price.

Answer 7

Yeah. We are all Americans.

Answer 8

I agree with you. Unfortunately, many will disagree with you. Take a look at who disagrees more (dems or republicans) and you'll get a good idea who's the more divisive party.

Answer 9

Yes........i do. And have been.

Answer 10

No im canadian :)