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merlin12465 months, 4 weeks ago
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For me, both parties are equally destructive...each in their own narrow-mionded ways.
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We need to be rid of them. I think everyone knows that intuitively......but we're stuck with them because they control the apparatus and therefore, set the (election) rules.
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Goppy5 months, 4 weeks ago
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I'm not sure I agree with you.
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The Republican Party was once quite a source of reason and rectitude.
But the MODERN Republican Party has been infused with Extreme Ideologues - who sacrifice the best interests of our nation - and Her people - just to promote that Ideology.
And that Ideology is a hare-brained outward looking Ideology that clamors for Aggressive Control of the Levers of Power in the World.
The result is a breakdown of international standing abroad - and a limiting of options at home.
Democrats - once the party of hopelessly Optimistic Idealists - have become, in our generation ... the party of effective Government Management - who simply want Government to work FOR Americans ... .
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Radiofreeeuropa5 months, 4 weeks ago
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Well said Goppy. I agree with merlin that plurality would benefit American politics, but so far most of the viable 3rd parties have been single issue affairs, not broad enough to matter. What WOULD drastically improve government is the removal of all lobbies and the paving of K street into a parking lot. Until money can't buy influence there will be bad government.
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sinophil495 months, 3 weeks ago
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"The Republican Party was once quite a source of reason and rectitude."
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A truer statement has never been made.
I admired and still admire politicians like Dwight Eisenhower, Mark Hatfield, Howard Baker, Olympia Snowe, John McCain (the original one), George Pataki, John Lindsay, etc., etc. Even Ronald Reagan could be included here for his personality and affability, if not for his policies.
Today's Republicans seem to go out of their way to be nasty, exclusive, obstructionist, needlessly antagonistic, and arrogant. They do not debate so much as demand. They do not discuss so much as make declarations.-
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merlin12461 day, 3 hours ago
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BOTH "ruling" parties are destructive. They need to be replaced.
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Anger against all politicians is reaching a fever pitch and more and more people are recognizing ow they've been abused and misused
by these two corrupt political institutions. Many people are willing to shed their partisan beliefs and embrace one or more parties that will hold true to the U.S. Constitution and live within the boundaries that hallowed document imposes on the limit of governmental power. Essentially, the Constitution provides sovereignty to The People, not the other way 'round.
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