Yep.
It amazes me how many blissfully ignorant people will vote against their interests because, say.. they don't want a man to kiss another man in the privacy of their own home. It's truly amazing.
What is even more amazing is that you actually think the democrats represent your interests!
They do, though. I know that was a dig at my intellect, but I'm going to answer as if you were civil.
My dad wasn't able to afford health insurance before the ACA, and now both he and my mom have it. I have a cousin who has a pre-existing condition that couldn't find an insurance company that would offer her anything worth a crap, and now she has a decent plan, too.
And they had to surrender exactly ZERO guns to get it.
Seems like Democratic interests have affected my life in a positive way.
How have Republicans represented
your best interests? Just curious..
It was not a dig at anything - it is truly amazing to me that you actually think they represent your interests because they throw you some crumbs from their table.
How have republicans represented my best interests? You are really asking that idiotic question? Jumping to the conclusion that I support the republicans only reveals that you are of a partisan mindset - not my side therefore the other side. I already made clear in this thread that they do not - they are just as elitist and power hungry as the democrats. Neither of them represent anything even remotely what I consider my interests and I do not believe that they represent yours either unless you are one of the power brokers (and I highly doubt that you are).
It saddens me that so many do not see this.
Glad to hear it wasn't a dig and that we're just having a conversation (that's hard to come by on here unless you already agree with the person completely, it seems..)
Do I have a partisan mindset?
Sure, I can admit it. But I only do because, no matter what,
one of the two will be in power. Nothing is going to change that, so why not throw your support to the party willing to invest in the people through health insurance (throw a crumb, as you put it)? The Democratic Party is far from perfect, but they are better for me and my family than the alternative.
Because it is exactly that apathy that causes this problem. The power brokers are COUNTING on you feeling helpless and trapped within the parties - it is how they maintain power. WE have the power – that is a cold hard fact. Contrary to public opinion, dollars do not actually vote – people do. As long as the people are willing to swallow the swill that the 2 parties throw at us then they will continue to feed us with it. There are very few of us that have walked away from the democrat/republican dichotomy, that is true, but there is real power in changing things if that number of people grows. And grow it will as things get worse as I believe it will.
Tell me, do you really feel that Obama has represented you? Most of the left that I know can’t stand what he has done. Healthcare is still firmly entrenched in insurance companies that we are now beholden too. War has escalated and we are dropping just as many bombs and killing just as many people as we have in the past if not more (I know I launch them). He is far from liberal no matter how many on the right here want to call him a communist. He is a corporatist – just like the republicans.
The reality here is that the party WILL NOT change as long as the voters continue to put them in power. ONLY when we start to take our vote away will the politicians start to notice and then they will actually start to represent the people again. That or we simply replace them. It has happened before and I am positive it will happen again. The only real question for me is how bad it is going to have to get before people start to wake up and take back the nation.
I am almost sure that you would disagree with 90 percent of what I advocate for but I don’t have a problem with that. Diversity in opinion and debate is one of the things that makes this nation grate BUT I do not want you to sit on those ideals and ‘settle’ for a government that does not represent what you stands for.
Maybe you truly do think that the democrats really represent you but I honestly do not believe that is the case.