CSM
Senior Member
Indeed, we do agree. But do you not see the hypocrisy and arrogance you ascribe to the Democrats within the highest ranks of the GOP as well?
It seems that the powerful within all parties have developed an arrogance which can only be described as hubris, forgetting that they serve at the sufferance of the people...Not their campaign contributors. I will vote for anyone willing to buck this trend, regardless of their party affiliation. And I have often done so, voting across party lines as I saw appropriate.
There is plenty of hypocricy to go around! There are Republicans I detest as much, if not more than the run of the mill Dem!
I do believe that most of the politicians in office today are completely out of touch with the average American; both parties look to special interest groups, minorities and extremists to guide their party platform. All our politicians come from elitist backgrounds (though they try to spin it otherwise) or stand as props for some one of the above mentioned groups. Those in office today on both sides of the aisle are more concerned with their own wealth and power than they are about the welfare and security of this country.
We need a third party that is more centered, not beholding to any special group or minority. Only from a centrist position is compromise (and even progress) possible.