Petty Frustrations
May. 19th, 2010 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cloudy_oneIn the wake of some of the recent elections I thought I'd put out my ideas about politics in America. I think it's silly, especially the voters. People often complain about the corruption which has been and is running rampant in the government. To be honest, it's the voters own fault. I could see making the mistake to put them in office the first time, but this has been going on for decades and decades now, it's not something new. Yet people keep voting the same way. What I'm referring to specifically is this change thing that Obama seems to have popularized with his presidential campaign.
My first qualm was with how electing someone from one of the two dominant political parties was change. It is still maintaining the status quo. Then when I heard about the recent elections results the same thing happened. People are again talking about how things are going to change, how is that? You people just elected people from the OTHER major political party. I don't ally myself with Republicans or Democrats (as far as political leanings). When people got sick of what the Republicans (and popularly Bush) were doing, they put Democrats (popularly Obama) in office. Now that the public is not happy with what the Democrats (again, popularly Obama) are doing, they put Republicans back in office! This has all happened in roughly a decade. I'm quite certain that falls under the dictionary definition of insanity.
The American people say they want change, but that's a load. They are blatantly BSing themselves. If they wanted change, they wouldn't talk big and then keep swinging back and forth between the two parties which have kept the status quo to begin with. I still have heard of no other parties gaining a lot of attention. The Libertarians and such get some press occasionally, but even with the American public getting comfortable with hearing their name and hearing their stance on issues the people are still not willing to put them into major office, same goes with the Green party. I don't particularly support either's views, but my point is that if those "other" parties have been around for a while and still are not enough to challenge the status quo in people's minds, then what chance do the other dozens of parties have which the American people are too lazy to look into?
You want true "change?" Start/ join a revolution. Or at the very least don't vote for the same people every single time; because yes, at this point the Democrats and the Republicans are basically the same in the way it counts. That is, they both equally upset the American people, and yet they are still put into those positions of power. At this point, if America goes down the drain, it is no one else's fault but the people's.
My first qualm was with how electing someone from one of the two dominant political parties was change. It is still maintaining the status quo. Then when I heard about the recent elections results the same thing happened. People are again talking about how things are going to change, how is that? You people just elected people from the OTHER major political party. I don't ally myself with Republicans or Democrats (as far as political leanings). When people got sick of what the Republicans (and popularly Bush) were doing, they put Democrats (popularly Obama) in office. Now that the public is not happy with what the Democrats (again, popularly Obama) are doing, they put Republicans back in office! This has all happened in roughly a decade. I'm quite certain that falls under the dictionary definition of insanity.
The American people say they want change, but that's a load. They are blatantly BSing themselves. If they wanted change, they wouldn't talk big and then keep swinging back and forth between the two parties which have kept the status quo to begin with. I still have heard of no other parties gaining a lot of attention. The Libertarians and such get some press occasionally, but even with the American public getting comfortable with hearing their name and hearing their stance on issues the people are still not willing to put them into major office, same goes with the Green party. I don't particularly support either's views, but my point is that if those "other" parties have been around for a while and still are not enough to challenge the status quo in people's minds, then what chance do the other dozens of parties have which the American people are too lazy to look into?
You want true "change?" Start/ join a revolution. Or at the very least don't vote for the same people every single time; because yes, at this point the Democrats and the Republicans are basically the same in the way it counts. That is, they both equally upset the American people, and yet they are still put into those positions of power. At this point, if America goes down the drain, it is no one else's fault but the people's.
