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Arkie
10-08-2010, 09:43 PM
Our political system is supposed to be set up to allow us to elect representatives that will look out for our best interests and defend against the inevitable tendency of those with the most wealth and power to exploit their advantage over the rest of us. One look at the current state of politics in this country and its’ pretty obvious the inevitable has happened. So much so that those with the most wealth and power have literally taken control of our entire government and political process.

They have distorted the purpose of elections from a way to choose worthy representatives into a big sporting event to determine which of the two dominate political parties will control the purse strings in Congress. They have successfully conned everyone into believing that the whole point is whether or not your 'party' wins. It’s become nothing more than another big American sporting event. If you doubt it, just imagine what a crowd screaming and yelling at a football game looks like and what a crowd at a major political convention looks like. They may be dressed a bit better at the convention, but there’s not much difference in the way they act. And when the game is over, all we really get is to feel we either won or lost. And really, nowadays, even the winning team starts to feel they actually lost as well. When Congress resumes business, we see that absolutely nothing of consequence has changed for the people controlling the game.

For many, there is nothing more important than winning, getting 'their party's people' into office, regardless of whether or not those people are actually going to be the best people we can find. In fact, we know most all the people we get to choose from have sold us out long before they ended up on the ballots. We know full well we never get anything but a pile of opportunists and we get to pick the least bad choice. Virtually all of them have been completely groomed to make sure business as usual continues in government. They are primarily career politicians that know full well “we the people” have very little to do with who gets elected.

I mean really people! How many of you can look anyone in the eye, and with a straight face, tell them that out of over 300 million people in this country, out of all the good, honorable, intelligent people we have here, the best people we can come up with to represent us is the lot that are trotted out for us to pick from? This has been going on for so long now that entire generations actually think this is the way politics is supposed to work.

Well, I’m here to tell you this is not supposed to be the way it works! If we don’t shatter this left/right contrivance that only serves the interest of those with the most wealth and power, we are not going to survive as a nation much longer. This left/right paradigm does nothing more than facilitate the tried and true method of divide and conquer the ruling class has used throughout history. It works. It’s the easiest way to appropriate most of the wealth and power for themselves, while we’re all bickering and fighting over nonsense. They literally see us as the stupid masses, nothing more than sheeple. And it’s sad to say; we act like it most of the time.

I personally don’t care what party a person belongs to. I only care if they are interested in honoring their oath to defend and protect my best interests, this country and the Constitution. I’m only interested in if they can speak candidly and honestly. I only care if they are willing to eliminate corruption on all levels and enforce the rule of law. Right now, we primarily have a bunch of liars, cheats and political opportunists that see serving in public office is a sure way to wealth and power. Right now, the people supposed to be representing US are selling us out at every turn. They are supposed to be ‘public servants’ not “officials” that can simply write laws that make all their criminal activity and their masters criminal activity legal! By continuing to go along with party politics at this point will only ensure that we continue to have criminals and professional liars at the helm of our government.

Our allegiance should be to each other and this country, not political parties. Allegiance to political parties leads to what we have now. Blind support for the pile of criminals, on both sides. Supporting people unworthy of support simply because you don’t want your party to loose is absolutely insane. It’s the behavior of the stupid masses. We really need to snap out of this contrived left/right conflict and start being much more concerned about what’s best for this country, what’s best for all of us. The first step should be to take a big step back and look at what we are doing and how we are being played for fools.

PUTTING IT ALL INTO PERSPECTIVE

Did you know that we allowed roughly 96% of the incumbents to be reelected in the last election? We allowed people to keep their jobs that committed the worst betrayal of the American people in history by Bailing Out Wall Street and giving them total control of the U.S. Treasury - with blanket immunity from prosecution tossed in for good measure! We threw away a golden opportunity to hold them all accountable. WE just ignored an incredible chance to FIRE THEM ALL! Instead of voting them all out of office, half the voters were content to just dance around singing the mantra "Change We can Believe In" as if it was actually going to happen without cleaning out the den of thieves in the Congress.

While all attention was fixated on the totally controlled presidential race, everyone ignored the heart of the problem, the Congress! The powers-that-be con everyone into believing all the power lies with El Presidente. Well, it doesn't my friends. The Congress has more power than the executive branch and . . .
The congress has authorized everything.



http://www.kickthemallout.com/

sirhcyennek81
10-08-2010, 09:51 PM
This thread should go well.

I agree that we as a people should vote for what is best for the country, not party. But I am just as guilty of partisanship as anyone else that posts in this forum or votes in any election.

:Broncos:

ghwk
10-08-2010, 10:01 PM
this thread should go well.

I agree that we as a people should vote for what is best for the country, not party. But i am just as guilty of partisanship as anyone else that posts in this forum or votes in any election.

:broncos:

3-2-1 ...lol

sirhcyennek81
10-08-2010, 10:03 PM
3-2-1 ...lol


Uhh...ok?


:Broncos:

ghwk
10-08-2010, 10:06 PM
Uhh...ok?


:Broncos:

Just responding to your this thread should go well comment. I agree wholeheartedly. Just a matter of which one of the trollers finds it first.

sirhcyennek81
10-08-2010, 10:07 PM
Just responding to your this thread should go well comment. I agree wholeheartedly. Just a matter of which one of the trollers finds it first.


Sometimes I hate messageboards...hard to tell sometimes what is being referred to.

Or I am being slow tonight. Probably the second thing.


:Broncos:

ghwk
10-08-2010, 10:09 PM
Sometimes I hate messageboards...hard to tell sometimes what is being referred to.

Or I am being slow tonight. Probably the second thing.


:Broncos:

Nope you're good. I could have been clearer.

JJJ
10-08-2010, 10:18 PM
Country. I have voted democrat, republican, and independent for president over the years. I always vote the man (or woman), especially for president.

My litmus test for a president is always "How would they have handled the Cuban missle crisis?"

It is that kind of situation that you need a president for. Can they stay calm yet resolute under a crisis is the key character trait for a president.

That crisis is what showed Kennedy to be a great president. Strong, firm, and looking for solutions, not creating more of a problem than existed in the first place.

Bush probably would have escalated the crisis to dangerous escalative levels but the missles definitely would have been gone.

Obama would have simply allowed it take place while keeping an open dialogue and good relations pretty much like he is doing with Iran and there would be nuclear weapons there today in my opinion if he were president.

epicSocialism4tw
10-08-2010, 10:42 PM
Country. I have voted democrat, republican, and independent for president over the years. I always vote the man (or woman), especially for president.

My litmus test for a president is always "How would they have handled the Cuban missle crisis?"

It is that kind of situation that you need a president for. Can they stay calm yet resolute under a crisis is the key character trait for a president.

That crisis is what showed Kennedy to be a great president. Strong, firm, and looking for solutions, not creating more of a problem than existed in the first place.

Bush probably would have escalated the crisis to dangerous escalative levels but the missles definitely would have been gone.

Obama would have simply allowed it take place while keeping an open dialogue and good relations pretty much like he is doing with Iran and there would be nuclear weapons there today in my opinion if he were president.

I like your take. Not a bad standard.

Of course that's given that you know enough about the candidate to make that kind of judgment.

L.A. BRONCOS FAN
10-08-2010, 11:17 PM
Obama would have simply allowed it take place while keeping an open dialogue and good relations pretty much like he is doing with Iran and there would be nuclear weapons there today in my opinion if he were president.

That's an unfair and meaningless comparison insofar as America was a very different country in those days.

It wasn't until after JFK was assassinated that we really understood what we were up against, e.g., just how far the military industrial complex, the global banking cartels, et al, would go to assert their will.

Every president since then has had to live in the shadow of that knowledge.

DenverBrit
10-09-2010, 11:30 AM
Until those elected act in the best interest of the country, instead or their party, the corruption and incompetence will continue.

And until the voters stop sniping and voting 'party' first, nothing will change.

Campaign finance reform would be a good start, but it appears not to be in the 'party' interest to do so.

Requiem
10-09-2010, 12:14 PM
That's an unfair and meaningless comparison insofar as America was a very different country in those days.

It wasn't until after JFK was assassinated that we really understood what we were up against, e.g., just how far the military industrial complex, the global banking cartels, et al, would go to assert their will.

Every president since then has had to live in the shadow of that knowledge.

Dude. You didn't hear? He uses the Cuban Missile Crisis as a political litmus test. Smart guy!