The Mandalorian Way

Scythe · Tue May 15, 2007 10:42 pm The future of the USA in the comming election

I think we will see a major change in the political world, the Democrates run the congress and the Republicans run the white house and as such they will never come to a suitible compramise that is best for the whole USA, this is evident in everything that has transpired up to know and until the two groups can come to a good understanding that will better the USA we ill see things change for the worse and hardly get any better.

If the "wigs" or independants would step up and take some places in congress and white house affairs then maybe they could bring a suitible balance to our political situation, but these are just my views.

JimFett · Sun May 27, 2007 2:39 pm

It's because Party politics no longer exists to serve the good of the people. The Democratic Party exists to to serve the interests of the special interest groups that aided in their ascent. The Republican Party exists to serve the interests of major corporations or any organization that provides funding for the Republican Campaign machine.

atin verd · Sat May 24, 2008 1:55 pm

Our government as it is does not look out for the people. In the coming election I hear plenty of the word "change" bandied about but change in what? Our government has stopped being of the people, by the people and for the people and those people are not fairly represented by any group. We see many or our politicians who have been in Congress for well over 20 years and have lost touch with the people they are representing, not to mention the fact that the districts that many of them represent are too diverse and large, well over 100,000 people in many it is difficult for them to actually represent their constituents in any manner. We as a country have gone from choosing the best candidate to the candidate that will do the least harm, thus the "devil we know" attitude when election time comes around. Of course that's just my opinion.

Kire DuHai · Sun May 25, 2008 12:56 am

I personally blame over-legislation. So many laws and bylaws and subpolicies and the this and that of legal action have piled up over the years to become completely incomprehensible. Laws are now all but arbitrary in this country. The left hand doesn't know what the right does. You have to do an incredibly acrobatic legal dance to do anything anymore, it seems, and to do something like get into a public office? Even more so. And thus the politicians are the result of that: people who know nothing else but working the system, because the only way to become a politician is to work the system.

If they just kept things simple, plain, black-and-white like the founding fathers tried to, you might actually see the idea of some Joe Schmoe becoming president as possible. Not because he worked the system, but because the people love him. But rather, we must constantly choose from a pool of candidates that no one likes, admires, or respects.

Any agency or bureau created by the executive branch has full power to make laws without approval of Congress. And they have their own agents to prosecute you with. The sheer number of agencies, many of which serve almost no purpose, let alone a useful one, not only clogs up the system, but with all the nigh-arbitrary policies they enforce, hardly anyone can keep track of what's legal and what's not anymore.

I personally hope, actually, that the democrats, having already won most of congress, take the presidency as well. Just for the sole purpose of shocking the American people into realizing how totally screwed up their government has become, and so they'll take measures against it. I figure if they get the worst presidency and worst congress, they'll actually catch on that they need to do something drastic.

Ah, well... that finishes my little rant, I suppose. My two cents.

Oya Manda!

-Kire Du'Hai