| Kasz216 said: Both parties are thoroughly flawed, though in dfiferent ways. It was hoped they would balance out each others faults, but instead they draw out the worst of each other and each try to get as many faults as possible through damn the consequences. |
Yeah, its because having two parties tend to polarize everything. Parties in general tend to polarize things.
But I am happy at least that the Democratic Party has representatives from so many different parties of the country that they are fighting more amongst themselves than they were before. I'm not the kind of person who is naive enough to believe that if a political party agrees on everything amongst themselves that it is a good thing. This is why I think the Republican Party is headed down the wrong fork in the road right now.
They should absolutely keep their fiscal conservatism (assuming they ever had it in the first place...which is quite questionable if you ask me). But do they really have to take a hard line on every other issue? Anti-science, anti-environment, anti-gay rights, anti-immigrant, anti-women's rights, anti-Muslim, anti-universal healthcare, etc.
I have always been more comfortable with the Democratic Party because they are more flexible and pro-intellectualism and science. I'm always for looking at the facts. And I don't really give a shit what other people do. You wanna have crazy gay sex, go ahead. You want to smoke pot, go ahead. You want to practice a religion different than mine, I don't care.
I don't think Republicans are as callous as most people make them out to be, but in many ways they encourage people to interpret their actions that way. Issues like the environment and healthcare are perfect examples. The same goes for their stance on many women's rights issues. I mean I don't expect, or even suggest, that the Republican Party should switch to pro-life or anything, but Republicans have a real image problem. Far too often they act like they are in their own little world with sound-proof walls.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
