Dad, official dad of NewMexiKen, is skeptical about the election. He says it seems as if we will just replace one group of rascals with another. I’ve argued that having convicted felons in congress is not the norm and there is a difference, but I doubt I’ve been convincing.
Perhaps you’d like to try to convince Dad that there is a distinction. Or that he’s right. Or that the incumbents are in fact best.
(NewMexiKen is always embarrassed when I solicit comments and none appears. Help me out here.)
By throwing the existing rascals out and installing new rascals, we deliver a message about our tolerance for rascally behavior. We have our limits. The new rascals will behave themselves until they develop new ways of being rascally, at which point we will throw them out, too.
I have no doubt that most of the new people we send to govern are fair, honest, good people.
Election campaigns are expensive. Amost immediately the duly elected must start to raise funds for the next campaign.
Who is ready to help them raise funds? A group of highly trained professionals called lobbyists.
Grandpa,
I agree. It’s just a bunch of self-serving rascals.
No single rascal, or group of rascals, should get too much, so we should replace them with new ones often.
They may well all be rascals, but, forced to generalize, there is absolutely an underlying basic difference in the two party’s philosophies about our needs and rights as American citizens and human beings. One only needs to compare how the last two administrations have operated to see this glaring truth. The rich are infinitely richer, and the poor are nearly destitute. The exalted principles this country was founded upon have been desecrated, and it gets worse all the time, as our rights are stripped one by one in record time, and with barely a whimper. The current administration (president/congress/senate) has raped the environment— possibly irrevocably, stripped our rights, and decimated our international reputation as a defender of justice; as a result, we are more at peril from terrorism than ever before. In their effort to take from the poor to give to the rich, we’ve gone from a budget surplus to a record deficit in 6 short years, destroying our economy in the process, replacing it with growing hardship and international indebtedness from which it will take generations to recover. Not to mention the separation of church and state…. I could go on and on, but it’s not really necessary. The evidence speaks for itself.
There’s a list of the 20 most corrupt rascals in Congress at The Huffington Post. Republicans beat Democrats 17 to 3.
Democrat screwups just get some money spent poorly INSIDE the USA. Dispersed without good feedback among Americans who probably needed it. Waste with heart and actually a trickle down of appropriate immediacy.
Republican screwups channel money that never comes back. Republican trickle down is trickle on. Name me a factory with new American jobs of decent middle-class, made with those damn tax cuts. Republican screwups are huge messes, since it is usually a terrible idea applied poorly. There is no ZERO-SUM where one side wins when the other loses with Republican ideas, they pull off lose/lose as a matter of course.
The damage of failure is much, MUCH higher with Republicans. Look at the deficit, the immigrant solutions, the medicare, Iraq, nuclear proliferation, on and on.