9th May 2016, 7:54 AM
Yeah, the democrats have some pretty major issues internally as well. In fact, the whole party system is pretty corrupt.
But, and this is important, the Republican party is the festering open sore in the center of all that corruption. Take any major matter of corruption, and you'll find it refined into pure poison in that particular party.
Personally, I believe both parties need to go away forever so we're forced, as a nation, to really think about who and how we select candidates. Look at what we've got here, two dynasties in a supposedly electoral process. If people were really voting, the odds that the son of a previous president would end up being the next president, or that the wife of a previous president would end up being the next president, would be ridiculously low. There would just be too many other candidates for such a remarkable coincidence to happen. However, here we are. I'm not saying Hillary isn't qualified independently of being married to Bill, but seriously, what are the odds she'd be the number one, if it weren't for that dynastic connection? Same with George Bush II: The Revenge (and, for that matter, the nomination of a Jeb, two individuals who seem to have been "born into" their political careers). I mean, look at that, people are RAISED by politicians to be the NEXT politicians, and it works! How is it they can get away with this if the old message we were taught as kid (You could even grow up to be president!) was actually in any way true?
So yes, the whole system is corrupt, but the republicans are far worse than corrupt. If forced to pick between two corrupt parties that break their promises, I'm going with the one that makes promises I actually believe in. While the democrats go against their promises, the republicans are the ones making the promises who's entire premise is dishonest (like "protecting the definition of the word marriage", where protection the definition of a word to begin with is a ridiculous notion anyway).
But, and this is important, the Republican party is the festering open sore in the center of all that corruption. Take any major matter of corruption, and you'll find it refined into pure poison in that particular party.
Personally, I believe both parties need to go away forever so we're forced, as a nation, to really think about who and how we select candidates. Look at what we've got here, two dynasties in a supposedly electoral process. If people were really voting, the odds that the son of a previous president would end up being the next president, or that the wife of a previous president would end up being the next president, would be ridiculously low. There would just be too many other candidates for such a remarkable coincidence to happen. However, here we are. I'm not saying Hillary isn't qualified independently of being married to Bill, but seriously, what are the odds she'd be the number one, if it weren't for that dynastic connection? Same with George Bush II: The Revenge (and, for that matter, the nomination of a Jeb, two individuals who seem to have been "born into" their political careers). I mean, look at that, people are RAISED by politicians to be the NEXT politicians, and it works! How is it they can get away with this if the old message we were taught as kid (You could even grow up to be president!) was actually in any way true?
So yes, the whole system is corrupt, but the republicans are far worse than corrupt. If forced to pick between two corrupt parties that break their promises, I'm going with the one that makes promises I actually believe in. While the democrats go against their promises, the republicans are the ones making the promises who's entire premise is dishonest (like "protecting the definition of the word marriage", where protection the definition of a word to begin with is a ridiculous notion anyway).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)