Politics are silly

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dictatorjeff

Dalayan Beginner
I don't understand the Republicans or Democrats. They're the ones dividing our country. If we could make a vendiagram of everyone's views, we would all share common interests. No need to fight, bicker, and waste time on nonsense. Not saying we need a utopian society, but everytime I see either a liberal or a conservative standing out somewhere picketing against abortion, illegal immigration, war or whatever, they sort of look like bowling pins to me.. and I'm in a car... hmm...

Shrug.
 
Competition among parties can be seen as actually beneficial to our country =) If there hadn't been, we could very well all be federalists now =P
 
The party system isnt the problem, it is the exclusively two party system we have that is the problem. There is nothing wrong with having dominant parties in any given country, but there are places like parlament and congress where other parties usually have the most area to have an affect on places. The executive branch is only as strong as it is because the two party congress always wants THEIR president to have power. Given a congress with a variety of political parties, and a majority party only having, at best, 25% of the seats, the system all of a sudden works wonderfully.
 
Psh. Registered Independent 4tw. By the way, if you haven't guessed from my forum name yet, I'm going to be taking over the world soon. You all have approximately 10 years of freedom left.

That is all. ^_^
 
Can I have the Secretary of Defense position please? When you take over the world, that is.
 
i don't think it's directly that the two party system is the cause of conflict, it's more that the average joe citizen doesn't care enough about the government to learn anything and just follows what they deem to be authority (be it religion, trade, whatever). also a lot of the time the average joe citizen isn't really intelligent enough to be trusted with making a good decision. if educated people took the time to think for themselves and neither act irrationally nor follow blindly the country would be in a better state because people would win elections for the right reasons regardless of parties. this isn't to say i don't believe some reform would help, but i just think the primary problem of concern is in the masses.

the forefathers of the united states understood this and that's why we don't have a democracy in the US; it's a republic. over the hundreds of years this has been blurred and people's insistance to treat this country as a democracy is flawed in my opinion. as for some reform relevant to this, i think that states should elect a senate via a democratic approach where everyone votes, but then those senators should choose who runs the country without a mass vote of each citizen swaying their decision. if people don't like their choosings then they can elect new senators. for profit media would have a field day if anyone ever proposed this though so it'll never happen i guess.
 
Luceri, I'm making you Vice-Dictator when I take over the world. But you can't have as many wives as me. If you do I'll have to decapitate you with my large wang.

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