"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty."..........George Washington
 What it basically says is that political parties that put their own success over that of the country's will be the death of America. Â
Here is a really good article to read http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/01/beck.future/index.html
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One important thing to think about is to stop worrying so much about who runs the country and start worrying about who runs your towns, your states, and your congress.
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Comments: 7
The problem, of course, is not the parties and the government, but us. We the people have been rewarding pandering, rewarding partisanship, rewarding media games that play each side off the other, dividing ourselves into neat little packages based on mostly non-essential arguments.
It is up to us, the people, to start taking responsibility for our own role in this democracy (or representative republic). It is up to us to start holding ourselves accountable - and then holding our elected officials accountable. When we start showing that we are more interested in our elected representatives actually working to solve the country's greatest issues instead of gleefully scoring political points and counterpoints, that's when the political parties will change.
To reiterate, it is we, the people, that must decide what we want our elected officials to do once elected. This is a responsibility at which we, the people, have failed miserably.
The future is up to us. Do we hold ourselves accountable? Or do we simply pass the blame onto the system that we enable?
I would like to see ALL offices limited to only one term, then those in congress and other offices would work to do their jobs. The reason being they do not have to worry about re-election, since they cannot seek that seat again.
They would only have a few years to do what they were sent to do and then it is someone else's job. Maybe then they would work for the PEOPLE!