We could....if your side of the aisle would stop breaking the law. Aside from these repulsive riots, your side has spent over 100 years shredding the U.S. Constitution and achieving your goals through executive fiat rather than constitutional legislation.
If you guys want the federal government handling retirement plans for America - fine. Lets have that conversation, convince the people you are right, and get the votes needed to amend the U.S. Constitution to make that the responsibility of the federal government. But you criminals don't do that. You just forge ahead with whatever you want, law be damned.
Sorry, but rational people and true Americans will never talk respectively and work with criminals. Never. You people want to start acting like law-abiding American's, then we'll come to the table and work tirelessly with you. Until then, you can forget about your pipe dream.
You anti liberal dupes crack me up. Progressives are what have always propelled our country, since inception. Liberalism is the gas pedal and conservatism is the brakes. Both necessary elements for progress but the car isn't going to move with out the gas... it will crash without the brakes. If we did everything your way we would be at a standstill.
Just look at the greatest accomplishments of our countries history... they are all progressive... ending slavery, women's rights, civil rights, our diversity, freedom of speech, religion, expression etc etc etc.
Yes you can cherry pick examples where the left goes overboard and that's where the reality check from the right becomes necessarily and useful. But your rediculous partisan rhetoric doesn't speak truth or do anything productive for our republic
Look at this post full of lies! And he wonders why conservatives don't want anything to do with his side of the aisle and why we refuse to work with them.
Buttercup, it was Abraham Lincoln and the Republican's that ended slavery. It was the Republican's that lead the Civil Rights movement and the Democrat's who vehemently opposed it. And the nation was founded by the truest of conservative principles: small, powerless government controlled by the people. That is the polar opposite of what you bat-shit crazy progressives demand.
Even your car analogy is comical. Both in the analogy and the real world, what progressives want to do is blow up the car (because of "pollution") and they want to walk mankind back to the caveman era. Yes, Republicans do have the breaks on. We're just trying to stop the regression of society your side of the aisle is working so hard to achieve. Lets look at the facts:
Slavery was outlawed about 150 years ago (rounding of course). And yet progressives believe that everyone has a right to my labor agains my will. I should work and then government should take the fruits of my labor (like the slave masters did) and hand it to the progressives that don't want to work.
Progressives want failed economic policy from the 1800's - Marxism. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". That is the entire progressive economic policy.
Progressives want political policy from the 1700's when King George III reigned. Obama just uses his "pen and his phone" to create law and all of society must except it. To hell with Congress or representative government.
Progressives want energy policy from the 1600's when all we had was fire to cook our food with and stay warm with. They want fracking outlawed. They want the coal industry completely shut down. They want nuclear power eliminated.
And here is the best part of all - they want society to regress all the way to 60,000 B.C. Just look at how they rape (Occupy Wall Street) and pillage (current assaults, thefts, and damage to property). Just look at how they insist that a grown man with mental illness and severe sexual deviance should get naked, shower, and pee with little girls like we're all in a cave again. The polar opposite of a civil society that embraces modesty and decency.