Let him without sin cast the first stone. The Dem party is without sin? **** YOU!!! They are MORE corrupt than ALL other political parties combined. Can you say, "Eric Holder & Fast & Furious"? How about "Solyndra"? What about the "GM Bailouts" and 0bama's "pimping of the Chevy Volt, which has caused more than a handful of house fires while recharging. I could go on and on about the rampant corruption within the Dem Party, but I don't have a year and don't care to write a book. You made your Hell!! YOU voted these thieves into office and we, the taxpayer, have to live with YOUR bad decisions!!
BTW, welcome to our forum. Enjoy your stay, while it lasts.
This post is to the OP as well....
For every single example of the Democratic parties misdeeds you can find one of (at least) equal weight in the Republican party.
On their face the parties stand for 2 different ideals. Ideals that are no doubt incompatible. Our system was founded on the notion that the people, in the aggregate would lead this country in the direction that it needs to go. So it was that the leaders, for the first time in history, we're granted their powers from the people and would serve the will of the people. The founders could have never guessed that it would be possible to craft a message and display it on a box to hundreds of millions of people at the same time. They also lived in an era of cultural honor. None of them could have foreseen the corruption that would grip men of power, but it is the corruption of those men, not their ideology that has lead to America as we know it.
When the average everyday person like (I assume) you and I, who believe different things about America and what the ideal is, wake up and realize that politicians, serve one master, and it's not the electorate, it is the almighty dollar. As long as we spend our time spinning our wheels, bitching and moaning at each other, the longer the focus is diverted from the underlying cause of America's problems.
The people have lost control of the incentive structure in this country. The politicians now control the destiny of this nation and they pander to us using the dollars of the corporations who have carefully crafted the perception that their are two sides to these debates, left - right, Conservative - Liberal, Democrat - Republican.
If I support a candidate it's not because I'm passionate about his vision of America, it's because I'm scared $hitless at what the other guy will do.
There are those with power and those without.
People need to wake up, this a a battle between those who do the work and those who have the money to make that work possible
and neither group is superior to the other, regardless what each side claims. The sooner they realize this and understand that the relationship is give and take the better off we'll all be.
I support a system that puts labor and capital on equal footing. A system whose incentive structure is built around that ideal (this should have been my introduction...lol)
Our electorate (Democratic and Republican) represents the people that give them power, and I got news for you, it aint you and me.