I find such a poll very un-American and divisive. This is precisely the problem with the Nation and exactly why the government is shut down right now.
It is against everything I stand for. What I stand for is, "THE END OF POLITICS."
The elites that run the system seek to divide. This is exactly what they want. They want everyone to believe that there are different points of view, that there are differences of opinion on issues, and not a way to find the best solution.
Once we can find the facts, once we learn to think logically, if we throw off our blinders, there is a solution, we agree to live as one people, under the government that was once agreed upon. I think part of the problem, that I have seen on this forum, is there are genuinely people in this nation that HATE the principles of the Constitution. They have said as much. The government that the Constitution laid out was, and is, the best on the entire planet. It is the model by which the UN charter was founded. Certain individuals would piss on that. There can be no room for "compromise," or understanding with those in our government, if they want to get rid of the ground rules.
Believe me, it seems the current administration has actually classified people that hold true to the principles of the first administration, as, "terrorists." However, if he didn't, we would ALL get along just great. We would have no need for any "parties" or factions.
Divide et impera
If the backers of the political elites, the financial elites can convince people that there is a difference in point of view, than there will only be policy changes on the smaller issues. On the large issues, nothing substantial will ever occur.
This was the warning, the dire danger to freedom and liberty that Washington warned about in his farewell address. It is why there is no need for parties in an educated democratic republic.
Excerpted from Washington's Farewell Address 1796;
Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
If we don't unite, NOW, more than ever, we have two things to look forward to. A war in the middle east, and a default on the dollar.
And this, I know, I will be crucified for by all on this forum. I will be called a nutter. I'll be labeled "conspiracy theorist." All sorts of things. But I love the nation I was born and raised in, and I love civilization. I don't want people to riot and give our ever growing police state the excuse it desires to take away freedom and liberty. Because, let's face it, THEY HAVE FAILED US, ALL OF THEM. THEY ARE IDIOTS. They don't want to solve the problem, they want to burn it all down and create something radically new. Something draconian. Something that doesn't include liberty for the common man. Something that has nothing to do with the BILL OF RIGHTS.
They have refused to do their job. The only thing they have done is to continue to increase spending and the size of the debt by giving away programs to their constituents. Republicans to the military industrial complex, Democrats to the welfare state. Both of them to Wall street and the financial sector. Now, the bill has come due.
Neither is to Blame. It is simple mathematics. Just like the Soviet System was going to inevitably collapse if they didn't do something, so will ours. I am afraid Ron Paul was probably our last chance to get our fiscal house in order. But the corruption on Wall Street fed into the Main Stream press and conditioned the minds of those who could not, or would not think for themselves. It has nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with SIMPLE ARTHRITIC. THAT IS WHY NOT A SINGLE BUDGET HAS BEEN, OR COULD BE PASSED FOR YEARS. I am beginning to think a budget will never be passed again.
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