Democrat vs Republican, HELP

[BigJim]

American Constitution isn't rigged. The system that interprates it is, but the actual rules of the game, as they are in writing and entrenched into thr law of the land, are pretty much solid. Its only cunning politicions that have bended those entrenched rules and set up unseen barriers to hinder those third-parties.

The Constitution was designed as a placatory, empty piece of paper. Now't else. It's been very effective for dividing people over non-sensical issues.

Much like Orwell described it in 1984, the biggest barrier to a fair election is ourselves. These families, dynasties, whatever, are *so* behind the scenes that the're unable to affect people directly, so they use manipulation to make people beleive what they want. I shan't go into details, no doubt you're more clued up on that aspect anyway, but lets just agree on the fact that if anyone actualy stopped and began to properly consider the current set-up and state of affairs, they'd start a revolution lol. Or rather, run as a candidate themselves and expose the truth.

Kind of difficult when you need big money to get an election campaign togather and the only people who can find backing are the ones who have...... backing. The whole system needs to be shaken to it's foundation and most likely, replaced. (No, I don't mean armed revolution. I can't think of anything less likely to suceed.) Trying to play people who've been playing a rigged game for thousands of years by their own rules, isn't a recipie for sucess. It's a sure loser.

People are stupid, and clever people at the top take advantage of this to make sure they stay where they are. They've been doing it for four hundred years, but all it takes to make it collapse is a few home-truths spun hard in there direction.

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Not four hundred. Not even four thousand. Much more!

The difference between stupidity and genius is just the will to question "facts". Any idiot can become a human being of immeasurable ambition and posibility. It's just a change of mind away.

 

[BigJim]

An interesting little commentary I stumbled across.😀


Republicans are a potpourri of contradictions. They say they want more freedom, then they turn around and try to tell us who NOT to sleep with, who NOT to worship, what music NOT to listen to, what movies NOT to watch, and what NOT to do to ourselves physically. They tout themselves as being highly moralistic, yet America has seen that they're just as perverted as everyone else. They go to church and practice their religion, then they turn their backs on it by damning everyone and everything they don't agree with to hell 'n' damnation. They don't believe that homosexuals are entirely human and think they should be treated as second-class citizens. They're typically pro-life and pro death penalty at the same time. They love big, pumped-up military budgets in times of peace. They tell us that drugs such as marijuana are evil, yet most of them just love a good bottle of beer, cup of coffee, or cigarette. They love big business and mega-corporations which suck up resources and keep overconsuming Americans fat and stupid. And when they say they want to lower your taxes, at the same time they're thinking of new reasons to raise them. Don't trust a Republican farther than you can spit a rat.

Republicans refer to Democrats as: Communists, limp-gutted liberals, cowards, gutless.

Democrats are just as bad, of course. They put emotion before reason and claim to have a monopoly on caring--they use broad terms like "the children" as an excuse to take away more and more of your freedom. They wage class warfare by demonizing the successful people of our society. They love to punish success with heavier taxes in order to transfer that money to people who didn't earn it. Their politicians are *****s for federal funding used to create special programs that benefit only certain people based on race, gender, and sexual preference. They believe that government should have a hand in every aspect of your life because you're obviously too stupid to live your own life without their help. They treat our military as the world's police, sending troops overseas to meddle with the affairs of other countries. They're trying to ban everything they claim is bad for you, such as cigarettes and fatty foods. They play the race card on everything, claiming to be more racially sensitive than everyone else...but somehow they don't think affirmative action is racism. They want to ban privately-owned firearms and disarm the public, leaving law-abiding people defenseless against criminals who don't follow the gun laws anyway. And when it comes to raising your taxes, they do it without a second thought and can come up with a million ways to rationalize it.

Democrats refer to Republicans as: Nazis, fascists, bastards, inhuman, "that idiot from Texas".

So that's my humble analysis of the two major parties. There ARE alternatives, which is something these two parties would like you to forget. So do your homework and see what you find!




Not a bad summary in MHO. I thought it was quite thought provoking.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

"They play the race card on everything, claiming to be more racially sensitive than everyone else...but somehow they don't think affirmative action is racism"...

Quite a change from the days when the Democratic Party stood for both De Facto and De Jure segregation in the South, and discrimination in both jobs and housing elsewhere...
I had a good friend who died in a car wreck last February. He used to tell me he didn't need any White Liberals telling him what he needed and why. He only wanted them to shut up and let him live his life as an American, and to stop patronizing him and stop telling him what they thought his opinion should be. He also wanted other people to stop assuming that he was there to clean off the table and sweep the floor and ask for a handout.
Sounds like a great American to me...

"Republicans are a potpourri of contradictions. They say they want more freedom, then they turn around and try to tell us who NOT to sleep with, who NOT to worship, what music NOT to listen to, what movies NOT to watch, and what NOT to do to ourselves physically. They tout themselves as being highly moralistic, yet America has seen that they're just as perverted as everyone else. They go to church and practice their religion, then they turn their backs on it by damning everyone and everything they don't agree with to hell 'n' damnation. They don't believe that homosexuals are entirely human and think they should be treated as second-class citizens. They're typically pro-life and pro death penalty at the same time. They love big, pumped-up military budgets in times of peace. They tell us that drugs such as marijuana are evil, yet most of them just love a good bottle of beer, cup of coffee, or cigarette. They love big business and mega-corporations which suck up resources and keep overconsuming Americans fat and stupid. And when they say they want to lower your taxes, at the same time they're thinking of new reasons to raise them. Don't trust a Republican farther than you can spit a rat."

Look...to be honest...I find this assessment quite on the mark. The assessment of the Democrats looks like it was made by one of the people the above paragraph was describing...
as far as 'moralistic' goes: I can go one further...'hypocritical' is a better description. They scream and moan about sex on television and the movies and bad language and decry infidelity and the breakdown of the family...and then they're red in the face when they get caught having an affair with an eighteen year old girl passing out bumper stickers and buttons on their re-election campaigns. Isn't it hilarious how Newt Gingrich of all people can complain about someone else's deficiencies in character? The man who tried to get his wife to sign divorce papers while deathly ill on a bed in a hospital?

 

[BigJim]

Both definitions were written by the same person Knox. It was a complete article.

 

[milagros317]

I find both to be on the mark. But, then, I am one of the ~400,000 people who voted Libertarian in the 2000 presidential election.

 

[Oddjob0226]

What's often overlooked in the Republican/Democrat ideology battles is that apart from these parties, there were separate chools of thought - liberal and conservative. There USED to be liberal and conservative Dems and liberal and conservative Repubs, with some moderates sprinkled around. Now it's all or nothing -usally dictated about one party by the other - which confuses everyone who might be interested in choosing. So I now choose neither.