(November 2, 2013 at 2:36 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Voting is one aspect of civil society, but it too needs checks on it as well.
Exactly, however the checks that we have in place now for our current political system rob voters of any real ability to make change without being perverted by outside sources.
Quote:Sorry, but that is a utopia. People form groups, and those groups advocate all sorts of ideas, that is called politics, it happens in open societies and dictatorships.
But the problem with political parties is that they do not work in the interest of the people, they work in the interest of keeping their party in power. A true political party should never change its views. For example the Democratic Party was founded in 1828, and was originally pro slavery. If the party had stuck with its core values it should have died out, and a new party should have formed and taken its place (as was common in the early years of this country). But instead now our parties change their stances on topics so that they can remain a viable option to the voting public. So they no longer represent an unchanging political ideology, all our current parties represent are what the party leaders think will give them the best chance to keep their party in power.
