Discussion»Questions»Politics» The Republicans and Democrats are fighting like kids while we all pay for it. Why are we not fighting them instead of each other?
It's their job to fight for us. Plus there isn't enough people with the balls to physically go up against the parties. These marches aren't going to do sh!t.
Yea. I came to that conclusion myself. Chump just ignores it all and that's all he really needs to do. Fight for us you say? They are fighting for themselves.
My favorite ... He said, "In 1789, Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury Department with nothing and that's the closest it's been to even ever since."
We are fighting in the first place because they are Republicans and we are Democrats. Or vice-versa. So, that fact alone, makes us fighting each other already.
From this side of the Pacific it's hard to fathom the degree of venom in US politics. Sure, we have a great divide between Left and Right but it's normally expressed without the Dem/GOP degree of malice. There have been exceptions, of course, and in 2005 a conservative state premier was so badly hounded by the extremist right of his own party that he attempted to take his own life.
In terms of your question, Zack, I don't know how the ordinary voter can fight your system. The poison is set so deep that there's no point threatening to switch votes, or not to vote at all. The hatred is going to persist.
Same here Mr D, our politicians might be a bunch of t*****s at times but they do pretty much behave civilly to each other and to be honest almost no one would vote for someone who behaved in such a petty, childish, obnoxious and unintelligent way as Trump has, so it would never happen. However, to be fair too to the US this Pres is worse than anything that has ever been seen, a phenomenon and not a good one.. and worse it seems 2/3rds didn't vote for him.. so I do think the ones fighting do have a valid cause.. you cannot just let this one ride.. Bush, for instance was an idiot, a buffoon, an object of derision round the world, but he was relatively harmless in the scheme of things... Trump is, I am afraid dangerous, on many fronts
Yeah, he's a sick joke, but don't forget that he won only because the Dems couldn't field a candidate with more credibility than Clinton. She was the best friend he had.
The jokes have been circulating around the world since he won and even Angela Merkel had a laugh about his "alternative facts". I don't see anyway he can survive four years but who knows?
such a circus this is what we have for four years? hooray hooray three million illegal voters and they all voted for TRUMP oh dear..hahaha that really would be a hoot. ... Build a wall there is already a wall build a bigger wall they just get a bigger ladder Billions of dollars and all they do is tunnel under total waste of taxpayers money. what if they use drones?
Zack, with anger increasing since 2001, we might very well be on the precipice of another party gaining traction. Libertarian? Independent? Constitution? Our history shows party disruption and changes. In some ways, we have entered new territory, in other ways, what is happening is very reminiscent of the Know Nothing Party (The American Party) which was anti-immigration and existed prior to the Civil War.
Good post. Interesting that the Know Nothing Party was anti-Catholic and anti-Irish. It soon disappeared as the Irish moved into the mainstream of American life. Much like the Trumpites, that hopefully, will turn out to be just a passing bleep on the radar.
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