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Kasz216 on 19 March 2009
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akuma587 said:
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.

 

 

See I disagree.  There are tons of facts that democrats ignore too.. for example the ones involvign gun rights.

The democrats aren't anymore split then the republicans either.  There is plenty of stuff they didn't get passed that Bush liked that was unpoular.  Like Immigration reform.