I read a post on
Phil's blog about the third Presidential Debate. Check it out
here, it made me laugh so much. Poor arguments worded and delivered on tv beautfully are still poor. Reading it 30 minutes later after it was over was refreshingly humorous. Thanks, Phil!
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Yeah.... I get annoyed when people post about nothing but politics, so I tend to avoid it. Plus usually I don't have anything unique to say. But this week, I posted twice about politics.... I dunno.
Mostly my comments stem from hating the two-party system; I think it does a lot of harm. The problem is, it's so easy to criticize, and it's so difficult to provide an actual solution. That's why I tend to stay out of commenting. Most of the arguments in the current election come down to "Look how bady the other guy would/has screwed the US over" and not "Here's how and why my way will solve things."
Naw. They were both good posts. Mainly because they don't really have anything to do with politics exactly, just more about their method of argument, or how funny it looks for Kerry to get kicked out of the church. What a sucker, but he deserved it. Bush just sounds funny.
Do you have a better idea than the two party system, Phil? It seems to be the most stable and effective political system world-wide, comparing to the numerous other countries with instable multi-party systems in which nobody can get a clear majority.
For example, if there were a Conservative Christian party, it would accomplish absolutely nothing. So, we're Republicans, because we can get candidates who agree with our issues and have a platform in which to voice them (the party). Coalitions seem weaker and less representative, that is the people you select to represent you in the party will have to compromise more often in order to stay part of the coalition.
This is why I tend to keep out of that sort of thing.... I can see huge problems, but I usually can't say how they should be solved.
Here's one obvious problem: both candidates are for big-government. It is not possible to vote for a minimal government, which sucks. A lot. Of all the non-absolute political issues, that is the one which I am certain of. And there's nothing I can do about it.
Also I've heard pretty nasty things about abuses of power in a two party system. I read about this governor election in Arizona where they allowed a third-party candidate to join the debates, and he got like 20% just from that one event. The next year both parties decided that the debates would be strictly two-party in the future. Seems the easiest thing for Democrats and Republicans to agree upon is that nobody else should be able to have a say. Whenever you have a situation like that, the potential for abusing power is just too scary.
But all that to say I still don't know what would fix that kind of thing. Which is why I keep my mouth shut.
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