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ORIGINAL: lronitulstahp
Wouldn't it be an interesting thing, though...a Repub in the white house who isn't Bush, with a Democratic Congress and Senate??? i think McCain more than any of the GOP has the ability to work with Dems. If the OLD McCain comes back after all the campaigning crap, that is. In a way, part of the reason the Bush agenda was pushed, was a lack of checks and balances...the GOP had the whole enchilada in their grasp. That wouldn't be the case, now.
That would probably be the best result we could hope for. I think that since we can only have two parties (they're pretty good at making sure we don't have any more), it's in our best interest to keep things mixed. With the executive in one party and the legislature in the other, there are more checks and balances, particularly if the legislature has the votes to override a veto when it needs to. It's tough or impossible for either side to push partisan priorities through - that's definitely a good thing. They're pretty much forced to engage in dialog on the big issues and even :::gasp::: compromise. It wouldn't be perfect, but more of us would have some kind of voice and they wouldn't do as much stupid shit.
I can't vote for McCain, though. Or any of the R's that will be on my ballot this Nov. Other than McCain, they're all going to be incumbents who have ticked me off.
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ORIGINAL: lronitulstahp
i sometimes fear that people that are overly loyal to a party start to think of issues as secondary. There's a "we're right, we should win!" mentality that is found on either side. Some people are foaming at the mouth like religious fanatics over which party is in power...there is vicious name calling and shit flung in both directions. Which just proves some people fall for propaganda. If people would stop arguing over parties like they're NFL teams, and start paying attention to politicians individually and what they say, and more importantly how they vote and stand on pertinent issues, maybe Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, and those of thier ilk would be exposed as unacceptable choices from the beginning, and save the people of this country a world of sorrows...
There have been studies done recently about people's emotional reactions to political stuff. Turns out that our bodies give us chemical rewards when we get all righteous for "our side" and against "their side". I imagine it's pretty similar to the kind of thing that avid sports fans feel.
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