At the same time I also realize that to get my country back I need to better understand the Republican point of view. I also hear the Republicans say that they want their country back. Are both sides correct or are they both wrong??
.... both Republicans and Democrats have lost their country to the politicians and the power elite. I feel they are out of touch with the common man and woman, the ones that are just trying to eck out a living day to day. The only way to get the country back is for Republicans and Democrats to really hear each other and work together to bring this country back to Founding Fathers' intent for this country.
.... we can continue fighting each other and one day in the future the power elite and the corporations will rule this country and we will be serfs or we can work together and bring the power elite down and once again the people will be the ones with the power.
Based upon you wanting cooperation between two factions, I'll be glad to inform you what would need to take place in order to get me personally, as a Conservative, to join in order to wrestle the Federal Gov't back to where it needs to be.
First of all, my concern is that of too large a gov't that slowly regulates and encroaches upon what should be the people's responsibility. That would have to be the focus. I've examined the claims that corporations are trying to "rule the country" as you stated, but have personally found that viewpoint to be baseless. Seeing that I would have no reason to fight against an entity or group of entities (in this case, multi-national corporations) which I do not believe are a threat, I am not willing to join to fight something that doesn't exist and/or isn't trying to take place.
As far as “basic rights†being (your abbreviated list) “Equal education, civil rights, basic affordable health care, equal protection under the law (laws that apply to everyone and not just the common person), honest government,†there are some we already have. I’m not really sure of what “equal education†consists, but if that means Federal oversight of education, then I’m not willing to join in that fight. If “basic affordable healthcare†means universal and/or single-payer healthcare, then I will not join that fight either. In fact, I would go as far to say that if we ever got single-payer and/or universal healthcare, or we had Federal control over the schools without any regard of the individual States, we’d have just hit the express button for this nation to eventually become a place where “the (gov’t) power elite … will rule this country and we will be serfs,†something you claim you don’t want, and neither do I. I see no reason to help speed up that effort. These matters should be left up to the individual States and to the local communites to decide how best to address. If the “General welfare does include education and health care,†then this country will eventually collapse economically, for these things cannot be indefinitely sustained. I have no reason to fight for things that will destroy the country eventually.
I am willing to join hands in order to help advance a nation that upholds morality. Abortion and homosexuality are immoral. I have no reason to join hands with those who defend immorality.
If the political left really want to know how to join hands, they need to drop the notion that a bloated gov’t and additional laws and regulations placed upon the American people and the companies they form in order to conduct business is a good thing. That was never the Founding Father’s intent. If we want to go back to that, we should just tell England we’d like to become colonies again. So far, the solutions offered from the left to the nation’s problems all point to this country eventually becoming a left-wing totalitarian dictatorship. It might take 50 years, or 100 years, or longer, but that will be the end result. And I’ve read enough of their comments and viewpoints to convince me that many of them desire that result.
So there is my short list. If they want cooperation from me in order to give the country back to the people, then they need to fight for freedom and liberty from an ever-expanding role of the Federal Gov’t in our lives, or no deal.
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