A political blog
Monday, 18. September 2006, 09:23:23
I'm really not looking forward to the election in November. I'm fascinated with politics, but at the same time I so dislike both major parties that I can't help but be a little dismayed with people just go out and vote for the shitty status quo again. People bitch about how much things suck, but yet they keep going into the polls and voting in the same two parties again and again. Neither is better than the other. Both are concerned only with keeping themselves in power, and in doing so limit our personal freedoms.
The Republicans claim to be for smaller government, but yet under their power in the last years, it's gotten bigger and bigger. I'm all for tax cuts like they did, but you have to match tax cuts with a reduction in spending, and they don't seem to understand that. According to the Laffer Curve the government should get more money into the coffers with a lower tax rate, due to the cost of engaging in financial activity being cheaper, like a sale at Wal-Mart moves more TV's. This however doesn't take into account when our government is bleeding money through a bullet hole caused by redundant and unnecessary programs, a ludicrous amount of Pork, and a inefficiently managed war.
Another problem with the Republicans, is the religious aspect of their decision making. I have no problem with elected officials being religious, but they have to realize that the government, as intended by the constitution, is to be secular. The end result is the government limiting our personal freedoms based on dogma that certain groups don't believe in. Granted there are exceptions to these observations, such as
Ron Paul.
The Democrats are more focused on limiting our financial freedoms, and are keen on pushing the idea that they are all for diversity, but fail to push the only diversity that actually matters, which is diversity of thought. There are definite shades of Marxist groupism in their ideology, and if you stray from your designated group, you are called a traitor or worse, an example being a black republican. They claim the right is racist, but aren't preconceived grouping notions such as this tantamount to racism?
The left also favor wealth distribution, affirmative action (which is also inherently racist), hate crime legislation (which is essentially making thought a crime, and that's a very slippery slope), big overarching bureaucratic government, limits on free speach (the right is also guilty of this), and a top-down command economy.
Like they said on South Park, it's like trying to choose between a shit sandwich and a bag of douche.
This is, of course, just a very simple overview of a very complicated situation. I continually vote third party, and I always will, but I don't think third parties have a chance unless the corrupt elections laws, that were put in place to keep the two headed monster in power, by the two headed monster, are reformed.
The Republicans claim to be for smaller government, but yet under their power in the last years, it's gotten bigger and bigger. I'm all for tax cuts like they did, but you have to match tax cuts with a reduction in spending, and they don't seem to understand that. According to the Laffer Curve the government should get more money into the coffers with a lower tax rate, due to the cost of engaging in financial activity being cheaper, like a sale at Wal-Mart moves more TV's. This however doesn't take into account when our government is bleeding money through a bullet hole caused by redundant and unnecessary programs, a ludicrous amount of Pork, and a inefficiently managed war.
Another problem with the Republicans, is the religious aspect of their decision making. I have no problem with elected officials being religious, but they have to realize that the government, as intended by the constitution, is to be secular. The end result is the government limiting our personal freedoms based on dogma that certain groups don't believe in. Granted there are exceptions to these observations, such as
Ron Paul.
The Democrats are more focused on limiting our financial freedoms, and are keen on pushing the idea that they are all for diversity, but fail to push the only diversity that actually matters, which is diversity of thought. There are definite shades of Marxist groupism in their ideology, and if you stray from your designated group, you are called a traitor or worse, an example being a black republican. They claim the right is racist, but aren't preconceived grouping notions such as this tantamount to racism?
The left also favor wealth distribution, affirmative action (which is also inherently racist), hate crime legislation (which is essentially making thought a crime, and that's a very slippery slope), big overarching bureaucratic government, limits on free speach (the right is also guilty of this), and a top-down command economy.
Like they said on South Park, it's like trying to choose between a shit sandwich and a bag of douche.
This is, of course, just a very simple overview of a very complicated situation. I continually vote third party, and I always will, but I don't think third parties have a chance unless the corrupt elections laws, that were put in place to keep the two headed monster in power, by the two headed monster, are reformed.
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