It’s Election Day - go vote!
Typically I tend to shy away from political discussions. The problem with political discussions is they usually degrade into personal attacks or spouting of the same old rhetoric. It seems the first casualty of politics is the loss of one persons ability to form their own opinions, based on what they believe and the things they have learned from others based on civil conversation.
Another trap that seems to have us firmly in it’s grasp is the concept of political parties. If you decide to align with a political party, you must do so based on a few issues that you decide are the most important to you, and concede the rest of the issues. I know that for me personally it’s impossible for me to side with Democrats or Republicans because neither party could possible represent all of my beliefs without compromise. I believe based on conversations that I have had with others that I am not alone in this, and today people will all compromise some of their beliefs to select their representatives in government.
I believe that if you removed the extremes, and took the population that was left, we would mostly all agree on a majority of the issues facing this country, and what we agree to would not be accurately represented by either political party.
The reality of the choice we are given on election day is the same choice we are given on every election day, Democrat or Republican. If we ever want to have a real choice, we need to rid ourselves of the compromise that is political parties.
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You describe my sentiments exactly.
I saw a letter from a viewer on Lou Dobbs that said, why can’t we eliminate parties and elect Americans, who will think like
Americans, and work to govern Americans in a way that is best for America? Or something to that effect.
I can not remember the quote exactly.