bripat9643
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You obviously believe the voters are stupid. That's a great argument for democracy.The problem is that often unity will promote the unity from one side, and cause division on the other, while those who see only unity shout out that they're the patriots because they blah blah blah, while all the while they're causing the bullshit that stops unity in the first place.
The Republicans are hardly a party of unity, now are they? They like the idea of unity, but unity by them forcing others to do what they want them to do.
Hence why they like war, it causes everyone to be patriotic and support their ideas of bomb, killing, death and destruction, and giving legitimate reasons to take away liberty, freedom and a voice, in exchange for their idea of security which is more violence for them to be tough against.
I'm calling BULLSHIT on your argument.
Has it EVER occurred to you that the two party system is an illusion?
How many "Republican" politicians don't support the wishes of the conservative voter base? Why do you think that is? Why is it that even with a "Republican controlled" legislature and "Republican" President, they STILL cannot get a damn thing done?
Maybe, just maybe because a higher order wants it that way? That same higher order makes it illegal for you to generate wind power on your own property, store rainwater, and forbids growing food on your own land....
As long as you're hung up on it being a Republican vs Democrat thing only, you're the blinded one.
It's not that it's an illusion.
What you're talking about is that because there are two parties that need to appeal to a large percentage of the country (like more than 25%, Trump got a little more than 25% of the potential votes last year) that they don't bother appealing to what the voters actually want, they TELL THEM what they want. The Koch brothers have changed the political landscape by convincing right wingers to become more right wing, for example, but they're not the only ones by far. The Democrats do the same thing. The amount the CDU spent on the Germany election that's just finished was about the same as ONE SENATOR spent to win his race in Pennsylvania. That money is being spent on telling people what to think, mostly through advertisements, but not always the normal advertisement, sometimes it's writing articles and placing them in certain magazines with a distinct bias etc.
This is why I support Proportional Representation.