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Originally posted by dig420@Apr 28 2003, 05:24 PM
it's not a football game, bro, it's your life and your country and the laws under which you will be governed. Choose wisely.
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Hey Dig,
For 225 years people have been predicting the end of the American way of life and no one has been right yet. We're only getting better.
I am not interested so much in chosing as much as I am in observing. From where I stand, each party has the same number of idiots and savants. For me, there are issues, there are politicians, and there are parties; the last of which is the least important. Parties change. Platforms are amorphous. Today's Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln. Today's Democratic Party is not even the party of LBJ or Kennedy. Times change and they change fast.
Gephard is not Lieberman and just because they are in the same party doesn't mean I would necessarily lump them together. If they had the same views, they wouldn't need to run against each other. The simple fact that they are different is proof that neither party has a monopoly on truth. A party may have some broad outlines which are applicable on average but even the platforms themselves are influenced by the candidates themselves. There are pro-life Republicans and Democrats that will sign CDA-like documents into law.
I find both Bush or Lieberman very much preferable to Sharpton or Falwell.
My idea of bliss is a Republican President and a Democratic House or vice versa.
The political system as outlined in the US Constitution is designed to remove extremism. It's a self-correcting system as much as a governmental process can be anyway. I believe the American system of government is an excellent system of government. I am amazed at the forethought and political insights that the founders of the US had. The early post-Revolutionary period writings of Jefferson, Madison, Paine, Hamilton, and others are very powerful. The principles they wished to uphold and the system of checks and balances they designed to prevent the problems they had observed in other governments were quite extraordinary.
Last edited by Colin at Apr 28 2003, 06:30 PM