Jon Stewart has the right idea

  • Thread starter Thread starter WinterBorn
  • Start date Start date
Dixie said:
The pendulum is clearly swinging back to the right, while you and Stewart try desperately to hold it back and not let that happen... but it's gonna happen, it always does. We are a center-right country, most intelligent people understand that. What we have in leadership now... Obama, Reid, Pelosi... are NOT center-right, or center-anything, except maybe center-Marxist.
Click to expand...

Libs don't think Obama is far left. The complaint is that he kept too many of bush's policies in place. That alone should make you like him.
 
Rana said:
The Founding Fathers' weren't always right! I know, as a woman who now has the right to own property and vote! Also, black men and women now enjoy the same rights as
I do!
Click to expand...

Exactly. Issues like this always get lost in Founders debates. The Constitution had a black man equal to 3/5 of a white man and as for women, fuhgeddaboutit. Over a century before we even got the right to vote. I hope that's not what strict constructionists want to return to.
 
christiefan915 said:
Exactly. Issues like this always get lost in Founders debates. The Constitution had a black man equal to 3/5 of a white man and as for women, fuhgeddaboutit. Over a century before we even got the right to vote. I hope that's not what strict constructionists want to return to.
Click to expand...
Some might! Stand up and admit it guys and you know who you are!
 
SmarterThanYou said:
I don't get it from y'all. we've been dealing with moderate left and right for so long and look where it's gotten us. In one of the worst recessions i've seen in my lifetime. Why on earth would you want to maintain that status quo?
Click to expand...

Recessions happen. There's no economic policy you can maintain that will just chug on forever.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I think the present polarized political situation has quite a bit to do with the law of unintended consequences. Rarely has the American political system been as polarized as it presently is. Something which is manifestly, except to the most die hard partisans, not in the best interest of our Republic.

I think the polarization of our political parties began when we abandoned the convention and patronage process (i.e. the smoke filled room) for appointing our candidates for elected office. You can date the beginnings of our present polarization to the advent of the present primary system we use. A combination of voter apathy for primaries and midterm election cycles has allowed the extremes of both parties to co-opt the political process giving their voices disproportionate representation and thus disproporationate power.

The question is, what do we do to fix it?

My guess is that if the busy middle who are to busy to go out and vote and would take the time to become informed and politically motivated then the reasonable middle could take back our political process from the extremes.

So rock the vote man cause if you don't, you get the government you deserve. If you don't care to go out and cast your vote and thus make your voice heard, then don't be surprised if they don't listen to you!
Click to expand...

I want to randomly select about 1000 people, eliminate the 80% lowest scoring on a logic test, adjust the remaining sample to be demographically correct and match the general ideology of the American population at large until you have about 100, and replace a house of congress with this. I at least want to see if the idea is practical. I don't think you get very good people in office if they're smug enough to think they deserve it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top