How can anybody have even a little bit of respect for our political process

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akuma587 said:

If people in this country valued the facts or truth then we would not have elected George Bush for a second time. People too often buy into oversimplified mantras such as "tax cuts" and "big government" without actually looking at what each politician stands for.

George W. Bush has in many ways been the biggest advocate of big government since F.D.R., and not the help-the-people big government, but the authoritarian and abusive kind of big government.

We should have something more akin to what France has. Politicians are only allowed to campaign for a set period of time and all of them are only allowed to spend the same amount of money. It would make politics so much more open and issue-based than it is now.

I will admit the campaign this election cycle is more honest and open than it was last election cycle, but that isn't saying very much.

 

QFT

Just dont forget about the republican congress, they are more guilty of this than Bush is.

 

also at opening. I gave up on the politcal process along time ago. It's just pathetic. The only reason to follow along now is purely entertainment, seeing how each side stardegizes and builds their webs of deciet and lies. It's almost like watching a sport, except the losers are all the citizens.