Forum Post: what is the difference between the two parties?
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 6, 2011, 9:36 p.m. EST by dan1984
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from Cumberland, MD
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It is the debates raging on and on upon which the people of the two sides will never agree. And they are all just distractions. They want to keep people distracted from what is really happening by keeping them divided. The two sides will never agree on gun-control, abortion, gay marriage and so on. Live and let live for crying out loud. Make this country what it is supposed to be. Stop fighting over trivial crap.
There are two parties: corporate-funded politicians vs. citizens
Remove the funding and the politicians would have to work for us. We already pay them (salary, retirement, health care, housing and travel expenses, per diem, etc.), but nowhere near as much as the other side does.
According to the Constitution, We The People are sovereign. The "government" is merely our hired servant. If the servant proves dishonest or disloyal, the master upbraids him or shows him the door.
In contemporary America, the government by corporate-funded politicians has become a kind of MONSTROUS ABCESS that is threatening to destroy the country and its people.
And there it is in a nutshell.
There are a lot of improvements that need to be made. The list reforms people Americans want to see is long and varied depending on who you talk to. That said, I believe there is one reform that would provide the American people the best chances of seeing other meaningful reforms actually happen - that is REAL, loop-hope free CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM! I have seen others on this site calling this the "fulcrum" or pivotal issue. Right now the current legalized bribery, pay-to-play system of campaign donations and paid lobbyists has disenfranchised the American voter. Until this is fixed, any other reform the politicians may try to placate us with (be it a change to healthcare, clamping down predatory school loans, new financial regulations, etc.) will be about as effective as a farmer putting a new roof on his CHICKEN COOP, but still letting the FOX guard it.
We need to go back to the original political currency. Instead of the current system of who can collect the most money from corporations and special interests it should be who has the BEST IDEAS to EFFECTIVELY RUN THE COUNTRY (we don't need "Wealth Redistribution," what we need is "Political Influence Redistribution")!
For the sake our our children and future generations of Americans, we need to take back our democracy from the rich and powerful who are using their vast sums of money to "speak" as if they represent millions of Americans. This "Corporate Personhood" that has crept into our laws is allowing them to manipulating our policies in their favor at the expense of the average American (the recent "Citizens United" Supreme Court ruling is a miscarriage of justice and must be reversed. The $50 or $100 a normal American may give to a political campaign becomes meaningless when corporations or other special interests are handing our millions to buy political access to the decision making process.
For decades now the corporations and special interests have had our "representatives" bought and paid for (both on the right and the left). Concentrating our efforts on getting the money out of our politics is the best way we can create an environment in which further reforms can be realized. Until we end the current system of legalized bribery (campaign donations) and paid lobbying our politicians will continue to be the LAP DOGS of the corporations and special interests. What we need first and foremost is real, loop-hole free CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM!!!! If the corruption is not dealt with first, the chance of any other meaningful reforms becoming a reality is almost zero - the special interests will just use their money to buy votes and put forward bills that create loop-holes or otherwise twist the law in their favor. If we want our children to live in a country where there vote matters, we need to get the money out of our politics, otherwise they will increasingly become the 21st century version of the "landless peasant." Spread the word - End the LEGALIZED BRIBERY!!! CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM needs to be THE main goal of the protests!!!
The difference: One oppresses you by taking all your money, while the other oppresses you by keeping all the money. ^_^
And I believe even then they are interchangeable, ScrewyL.
Tomato, Tomato.
roger
Back in the 1930's they use to say ...
"Democrats start wars "
"Republicans Rob you"
Both party's will fuck you as wars and robbery have the same effect on the economy,