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People are Strange
There is a lot of chatter about Tea Parties and Progressives.
Does anyone understand the terminology of these things?
How both sides throw stones and name calling back and forth?
What does it mean? How do we differ?
Is the divide done to incite and split an American public, so both the Dems and the Republicans can use this slight of hand to distract the voters, while both parties work there own agendas? While they spend our money and line their pockets in the scared halls of the government building we pay for. What is their agendas and why are both side so hell bent on not meeting on issues and working out the greater good.
There was a time in the past, that all of the people were Americans first and a party member second.
Have we strayed so far from the foundation of what America is meant to be?
In a little over 200 years we have became the world power, our currency is the stable of the world and we as Americans give more money to other countries then any other country in the world.
We are a great people and have achieved so much in such a short period of time, why do they cut us into parties and not Americans? Control?
The Spartans had a great system of accountability for their governance. They would have an open election and the winner of the popular vote was elected for one year. The great part of their system was at the end of the persons term, they would put them on trial and if they were proven to be incompetent or oppressive, the would sentence them to death. Think about how much pressure the politician would be under to do the right thing, if that was the law of the land!
Now I am not suggesting this sort of system, but I am looking for accountability.
I had the pleasure of a reasonable debate with a lefty, after we rapid-fired a series of numbers and banter, we final got the core believes. This is when we run into issues, they are so far from my own views that we may as well been talking in different languages.
Does anyone understand the terminology of these things?
How both sides throw stones and name calling back and forth?
What does it mean? How do we differ?
Is the divide done to incite and split an American public, so both the Dems and the Republicans can use this slight of hand to distract the voters, while both parties work there own agendas? While they spend our money and line their pockets in the scared halls of the government building we pay for. What is their agendas and why are both side so hell bent on not meeting on issues and working out the greater good.
There was a time in the past, that all of the people were Americans first and a party member second.
Have we strayed so far from the foundation of what America is meant to be?
In a little over 200 years we have became the world power, our currency is the stable of the world and we as Americans give more money to other countries then any other country in the world.
We are a great people and have achieved so much in such a short period of time, why do they cut us into parties and not Americans? Control?
The Spartans had a great system of accountability for their governance. They would have an open election and the winner of the popular vote was elected for one year. The great part of their system was at the end of the persons term, they would put them on trial and if they were proven to be incompetent or oppressive, the would sentence them to death. Think about how much pressure the politician would be under to do the right thing, if that was the law of the land!
Now I am not suggesting this sort of system, but I am looking for accountability.
I had the pleasure of a reasonable debate with a lefty, after we rapid-fired a series of numbers and banter, we final got the core believes. This is when we run into issues, they are so far from my own views that we may as well been talking in different languages.
Diversity is one of the strengths of America, as is opposing ideas. But when we are on opposite sides of the world, how do you find common ground?
You would think that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would be a place to start, but I tried that, to no avail.
Therefore, I would like your input. I do not want to talk about "Taking Points", I want to talk about common ground and what you think America is and were we should be going....
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