[Tipsy]

Sure let’s look out America's politics. We have the Republicans on one side and the Democrats on the other. There's blue and then there's red. Whatever happened to America? You want to show me one of our parties has our country’s best interest at heart, go ahead and try.

How about Iraq? We’ve got the Republicans without a plan other then let's sit here and hope to God that it doesn’t all go to hell. Why can't they do anything else? They've screwed themselves over with their campaigns and it comes down to pride. Day after day in 2004 they used the flip flop angle over and over again. They used the Democrats want to cut and run. They used Democrats are blame America first. Now guess what? They can't do anything because they become the flip flops they denounced. They become the cut and runners. They become hypocrites within their own rhetoric and they can't bear the thought of hurting their party. Who comes first? Their party or America?

And we've got the party that has no ideas. All they know is that they don’t like Bush and they are mad at him. Their platform can be generalized into we're not Republicans. Let's get out of Iraq because we don't like Bush. We went their and got thousands of Iraqis killed and destroyed their infrastructure. Or let's set a timetable so that we might even have a scapegoat. Oh, we told them we were leaving now, it's their fault their government and infrastructure is screwed. I guess the best thing to do is leave their country a mess because of the slightest chance a stable country might come out of the smoke. Let's throw an entire country into our partisan politics.

Our politicians are working to destroy America whether they realize it or not. They see red and blue when they should be seeing America. They spout these grandiose ideas in their campaigns and then step in line with their party. I've seen Lamont’s rants on lobbyists and how special interest groups are a business more than a means of free speech these days. Companies, unions, and others basically buy their legislature through giving campaign financing to their candidate of choice. Neither party is going beyond ideas. There is no follow through because a push for it by either party would tear it apart.

It makes everyone feel good inside when you get to think that you're right and then everyone who is against you is wrong. Republicans want to think that Democrats are protecting terrorists and want America to lose abroad while Democrats want to think that Bush is a fascist bent on curving our civil liberties, wants to make the world his vision and go back to imperialism, or even push it to saying Bush caused 9/11. Maybe I'm generalizing a bit, but the point is we don't live in a magical world where one side is right and pure while the other is evil and wrong.

I can summarize my post in two words - we're f*cked. That's all there is to it. Our nation everyday is becoming more and more polarized and there's no end to it in sight. Want to prove to me one party is not a self-centered group that is only concerned about its' self-interest? A party that would gladly destroy what they are if it would help America? There is no atmosphere where there is intellectual debate that ends in a touché. People complain about Bush's tax cuts and other about raising taxes. Know which one is better? I sure don't because there really is no definitive empirical evidence showing one is better than the other. Everyone claims they know the answer though, somehow partisanship has become proof.

Go read Free Republic or Democratic Underground forums and tell me if you still hold either party's base in high esteem. Is it really bullshit? If you really think it is, I genuinely hope you can show me that it is because I would really like to hope that America has a bright future ahead. I really hope there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I hope its' just me who can't see it...