If you can't tell the difference between the parties you shouldn't be voting. Leave it to those paying attention.
The differences are minor compared to the similarities.
Both parties have been bought and paid for by lobbyists and corporations. Both parties are more concerned with beating the other party than with serving the people. Neither party is interested in controlling illegal immigration. Neither party has stopped our interference with other sovereign nations and sending our young men & women to die there. Neither party gives a rats ass about overhauling the tax system that desperately needs it. Both parties are more interested in special interests than in the people they took an oath to serve. Both parties will ignore the US Constitution when it is convenient. And both parties will lie thru their teeth to get what they want.
The fact that they differ on gay marriage, abortion or whether to spend us deeper into debt over the DOD or Social services, is largely meaningless when you consider the ways they are the same.
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There is no doubt in my mind that there is growing apathy among the voting public which WinterBorn is implying.
The constant political posturing is certainly wearing thin on the American public. We have big problems in this country and instead of approaching the problems and doing something about it, our representatives play political games. The Dems and GOP each produce legislation they absolutely know the other party won't except, in other words the legislation is dead on arrival. There is no interest in solving the problem as it's more beneficial politically for one or the other party to cry about the other parties obstruction than to attempt to compromise. All this "stand your ground" mentality has done is hurt the American public. We have huge problems with the cost of healthcare, a severely weakened Middle Class, National Debt, our tax structure, serious foreign affairs and the polarization of the American public just to name a few. All of this is political posturing does is hurt America. In my mind, both political parties are enemies of the state as they are causing more problems than any terrorist group.
If people looked at all the political ads running this election cycle (and recent political cycles) the ads lacked substance as most negative ads typically do. Billions and billions of dollars spent to say nothing. Amazingly effective. With the flood gates of Big Money wide open, there is very little incentive for Washington to address this country's real problems. What has been addressed to help the spiraling downwards Middle Class, the outrageous cost of healthcare, the National Debt and the division of the American public? Nothing. Washington is too busy bending over to please their monetary masters who make up a very small segment of the United States' demographics. Plutocracy is winning and dragging the masses and America continuously downwards.
Plutocracy throughout history has only accomplished one thing, the demise of a state.
People who deny the America, alas much of the world is being subjected to Plutocracy are seriously missing the boat.
