TMSTKSBK;717270 said:
Right. She's still trying to pass a bill to ruin the economy. She's a real go-getter, that one.
@WA: Yeah...I should vote Democrat because the Republicans are being stupid. Nevermind the fact that the Democrats are advocating precisely what I don't want to happen.
Republicans are still the lesser of the two evils.
What drives me crazy about our political system is why people see "Republicans" and "Democrats" when really what we should be voting for is the BEST CANDIDATE regardless of whether they are a "Republican" or a "Democrat".
The very fact that someone can classify all their individual beliefs into one party or the other already makes it difficult for me to trust them to serve the will of the people. Since when did we vote an entire party into office and why should a political party as an organization have any kind of common voice or power in our government?
It seems to me that the only thing the party system is good for is creating lines of divisions between people and promoting political in-fighting and bickering when our elected officials should be serving the common will of the people who elected them under the platforms they were elected under.
I mean, I'm not a political genius or anything, maybe I'm just missing some hidden value that the party system supposedly provides (besides a shitload of campaign funds for their nominees...and don't even get me started on how candidates need to sell their souls to special interests and other sources of revenue to even have the cash to compete for the presidency to begin with...)
