Friday, March 26, 2004
/rant politics
Recently on a message board that I visit often someone asked “Could someone tell me the difference between the Democratic and Republic parties of the US?”
About 15 other people replied, all of them posted very good answers and covered the topic well. None of them seemed overly biased either, which I found surprising . The following is what I added to the thread.
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I applaud you all for not letting your personal views overly taint your descriptions here. My post however will not be so clear of personal views however. Below you will see a sample of U.S. Voter frustration with the choices we have been given.
I am ready to fire both parties. Neither speaks to me as a voter, neither represents my views completely. The big government, lobbyist and blatant lies we have now from both parties makes me wish there was a third choice. This coming fall I will probably vote for a third party. Right now there is only one party that seems to be even close to being considered a viable third party and that’s the independent party. However they will not receive my vote either, as I can not stand Ralph Nader.
I am effectively a man with out a party. And so I search…
What I wish I could do is just plug my stances on all the different issues the nation faces into some interface and have it spit out the party that fit the way I believe. However this would not ensure I would vote for that party. I FIRMLY believe in not voting for parties. I believe in voting for people. Who represents my beliefs the closest and will do a good job at the same time. Voting for the best person is what I shoot for now, not what the party line is.
I am a registered Republican that voted Democrat in the last Presidential election. I feel like a double looser for this. Not because Gore didn’t win, and not for any of the issues in FL. I feel this way because when I voted in 2000, I didn’t vote for who I felt would do the best job. I voted for the guy that I felt would do the least amount of damage and had a chance to win. It was really an anti-Bush vote more then anything. This is a horrid way to spend my vote.
In the past I voted for “Least Damage”, and I am not sure what has made me see the light this election cycle but I am committed to only voting for who I believe to be the best man for the job, regardless of his chances of winning and regardless of party. I believe if more
people dropped their party blinders and looked at people instead of parties then the US might be able to break the strangle hold the current big two have on the nation. (however I will not even fathom a guess on how that would impact the nation as a whole. I will leave that to one of the people that will surely slam this post.) [ed. So far no one has]
So while not totally on or off topic, I hope this shows you that not everyone is committed to the current party system here in the US.
-Alabrax
I would like to point out that I am not on the fringe of either the right or the left, I am very centrist. I am just a centrist that’s fed up with the current choices.
About 15 other people replied, all of them posted very good answers and covered the topic well. None of them seemed overly biased either, which I found surprising . The following is what I added to the thread.
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I applaud you all for not letting your personal views overly taint your descriptions here. My post however will not be so clear of personal views however. Below you will see a sample of U.S. Voter frustration with the choices we have been given.
I am ready to fire both parties. Neither speaks to me as a voter, neither represents my views completely. The big government, lobbyist and blatant lies we have now from both parties makes me wish there was a third choice. This coming fall I will probably vote for a third party. Right now there is only one party that seems to be even close to being considered a viable third party and that’s the independent party. However they will not receive my vote either, as I can not stand Ralph Nader.
I am effectively a man with out a party. And so I search…
What I wish I could do is just plug my stances on all the different issues the nation faces into some interface and have it spit out the party that fit the way I believe. However this would not ensure I would vote for that party. I FIRMLY believe in not voting for parties. I believe in voting for people. Who represents my beliefs the closest and will do a good job at the same time. Voting for the best person is what I shoot for now, not what the party line is.
I am a registered Republican that voted Democrat in the last Presidential election. I feel like a double looser for this. Not because Gore didn’t win, and not for any of the issues in FL. I feel this way because when I voted in 2000, I didn’t vote for who I felt would do the best job. I voted for the guy that I felt would do the least amount of damage and had a chance to win. It was really an anti-Bush vote more then anything. This is a horrid way to spend my vote.
In the past I voted for “Least Damage”, and I am not sure what has made me see the light this election cycle but I am committed to only voting for who I believe to be the best man for the job, regardless of his chances of winning and regardless of party. I believe if more
people dropped their party blinders and looked at people instead of parties then the US might be able to break the strangle hold the current big two have on the nation. (however I will not even fathom a guess on how that would impact the nation as a whole. I will leave that to one of the people that will surely slam this post.) [ed. So far no one has]
So while not totally on or off topic, I hope this shows you that not everyone is committed to the current party system here in the US.
-Alabrax
I would like to point out that I am not on the fringe of either the right or the left, I am very centrist. I am just a centrist that’s fed up with the current choices.
