RE: The Almighty US Government
June 26, 2014 at 3:21 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2014 at 3:23 pm by Isun.)
Personally I think it is the voter that is the problem. Chief among them are the one issue voters and those that are uninformed which unfortunately today is the republican party.
We have a system that depends on trying to elect the lesser evil. We have a corrupt judicial system that vote primarily party instead of law. AT the state level it is even worse when a judge is recalled not because he interpreted the law incorrectly but because the narrow minded ignorant are upset at the law and wanted a activist for a judge (teaparty) instead of changing the law. We have a supreme court that thinks that money isn't corrupting (how stupid can you get).
I don't have any illusions that democrats are less corrupt or potentially corrupt, but a lot of time it has to do with who is in power. Today the republican party is solidly corrupt while the democrats have to appear to support populism to try to get elected. They at least admit that science is science while creationism is ignorance. They admit that science knows more about climate than the koch brothers. They admit that jobs are created by supply and demand, and not based on how much money the rich have.
The problem is unfortunately going to be very difficult to deal with because of the corruption in both congress and the supreme court. Where money rules instead of the people.
To solve the problem, we have to make it so that special interests and lobbyists don't control congress and that means taking money out of running for office. It won't happen until we get a "real" court, but that won't happen if people don't educate themselves on the issue instead of on "abortion" or "appearance" of being a christian. ( I don't know of any politician that is really a "christian" in any sense of the word except in appearance).
So ultimately, it isn't government that is the problem, it is the voter that is the problem in my opinion.
We have a system that depends on trying to elect the lesser evil. We have a corrupt judicial system that vote primarily party instead of law. AT the state level it is even worse when a judge is recalled not because he interpreted the law incorrectly but because the narrow minded ignorant are upset at the law and wanted a activist for a judge (teaparty) instead of changing the law. We have a supreme court that thinks that money isn't corrupting (how stupid can you get).
I don't have any illusions that democrats are less corrupt or potentially corrupt, but a lot of time it has to do with who is in power. Today the republican party is solidly corrupt while the democrats have to appear to support populism to try to get elected. They at least admit that science is science while creationism is ignorance. They admit that science knows more about climate than the koch brothers. They admit that jobs are created by supply and demand, and not based on how much money the rich have.
The problem is unfortunately going to be very difficult to deal with because of the corruption in both congress and the supreme court. Where money rules instead of the people.
To solve the problem, we have to make it so that special interests and lobbyists don't control congress and that means taking money out of running for office. It won't happen until we get a "real" court, but that won't happen if people don't educate themselves on the issue instead of on "abortion" or "appearance" of being a christian. ( I don't know of any politician that is really a "christian" in any sense of the word except in appearance).
So ultimately, it isn't government that is the problem, it is the voter that is the problem in my opinion.
