We Need More than Two Parties

You gotta wonder about a state like Iowa that has a treat that is deep fried butter. You got to wonder why they re-arrange their lives so that they can be first in all matters related to that spectacle of presidential politics. You got to wonder how folks who take politics so seriously can give any credence to certified nuts. But then again I am one of those liberals who actually processes what I hear as opposed to enjoying the rhythmic sounds of a shrew or the bleating of a Texas libertarian. It is hard to imagine how a cholesterol laden population got to have influence in who will lead this nation. One would think that their dietary habits alone would disqualify them from rendering any in-put, but a plethora of reporters with unlimited air time and very little to report can make even the most absurd event into a story. Enough of casting aspersions on god-fearing butter eating mid westerners. Let's get to the matter at hand.
There really aren't any true conservatives nor for that matter liberals. We have politicians who are incumbents and want to stay near the honey pot. Given the evidence that Congress has no credibility and worse no ability to govern, it would seem we need to scrap the two party system. Currently, Republicans have been hijacked by crazy religious fanatics who believe the world was created in seven days and that prayer is the answer to all our problems though there is no evidence that it helped anyone in the past save those who approach it from a spiritual perspective and understand as C. S. Lewis did that it is a means of reordering one's thinking.
As for the Democrats, well, they have been lead by wimps who cave in for they have no intestinal fortitude nor any moral standards save their primary purpose which is their own re-election. Obama is the wimp in chief; he couldn't even capitalize on a landslide election and move the country towards the polices and practices he spoke about so often while on the campaign trial. He kowtowed to special interest and left the country in the lurch. With an eye on campaign contributions, he saddled up to the money folks and let the country go to hell. I won't even talk about his continuing the fool hardy adventures using the military as jihad fodder. He should be held accountable for his supposed political savvy which was nothing but the futile attempts of an inexperienced hack from Chicago.
What both liberals and conservatives are lacking are true representatives who can articulate the values of the respective groups and have the moxie to stand on principles while the extremists act out. This country is awash in bullshit. No one says anything that hasn't been scrubbed and sanitized and run by pollsters. We live in a world where those in power want to hold onto power at all costs and the first things to be jettisoned from the agenda are those things that got them elected and just might help the country. We live in a world where people can pay people to vote in an election that doesn't mean anything and then to have it presented to us as if it is something. It is indeed curious, very curious.
In the meantime we have just too many reporters reporting on insignificant stuff. The politics of this country are nothing short of a spectacle, a farce – and how any sane and intelligent person can report the crap that they report with a straight face is beyond comprehension. A shake up of the two parties is needed. Senator Bernie Sanders could be the standard bearer for the left. And some conservative, like Alan Simpson needs to come back and lead intelligent conservatives. A serious fracture in the two party system needs to occur before any meaningful change can come about. The parade of clowns who march forward to lead the country consist of crackpots and/or egotists who for some reason want to sit in the Oval Office. This country has lasted for more than a couple of centuries, yet we are in a downward spiral. If we continue on this course, the future doesn't look too bright. A two party system is never a good idea. It is not good to force people into one of two camps; especially, when the camps don't represent one's principles. It is time for the voting booth to have more than the choice between Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

Never Trust A Politician or Liberals Unite

When I was in college, way back when, the operant warning was never trust anyone over thirty. It was probably just an expression to highlight the disparity between youth and that mystical age when someone settled into a life of maturity. What we have witnessed since the election of Obama is evidence enough that politicians have only one goal, one objective, and one priority – their reelection. The country, their promises, their vision, their this and their that are little more than deceptive rhetoric designed to dupe the electorate into thinking that they have concerns and principles.
Obama is a case study in modern day political chicanery. He and his campaign staff pulled off one of the greatest scams of all time. To win the primary, he was the embodiment of Kennedy, Johnson (let's forget Vietnam and look to the Great Society), Roosevelt, Wilson (yes he was the peace the man) and even Lincoln. Once in office, he turned out to be little more than a hack Alderman in the bowels of Chicago politics. No greater disappointment has ever been seen in American politics.
But we liberals shouldn't be dismayed for we weren't the only ones to be hoodwinked. Hell, he fooled the Nobel committee into giving him the peace prize. How foolish do you suppose those folks feel?
All this bunk about a Team of Rivals when he assembled his staff was just that – bunk. Hell from day one the objective of his inner circles was reelection. Why else would he give those Wall Street insiders key role in his economic team. He was an orator of the first order, but as was mentioned here before, there is major difference between leading and getting elected. Obama morphed into a Republican stooge of the first order. From day one, he pranced about filling our collective head with optimistic rhetoric while the “loyal opposition” was busy designing a blueprint that would, in effect, derail any attempt at moving the ship of state from any progressive port back to the backwaters of the swampy world where the rich get richer and corporations subsist on the succor of the government while shipping jobs so vital to the economy to countries where they can exploit the workers and pollute the environment. Meanwhile, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner was huddling with generals and expanding the wars and laying the ground work for even more military actions. Man, were the Who ever prescient when they sang, “Welcome to the new boss – the same as the old boss.”
All this and now we have these “no-nothing” tea party freaks running around mouthing slogans and catch phrases they learned from idiot media personalities and thinking they are the vanguard to a new era of prosperity. I know a lot of these old fools think that they are the true Americans but they are nothing short of being throwbacks to a time when people preferred their ignorance to science.
But perhaps these die hard no nothings are providing us liberals with a model. Perhaps their greatest contribution is to show us progressives a way. What us liberals should now do is throw out all these establishment politicians who claim to be liberals and get stick in the mud truly committed folks. We need to begin to elect people who don't back down or compromise or pretend to be conciliatory. We need straight up proponents of social activism. We need a need a liberal caucus who will be just as intransigent as these so called patriots who know nothing of patriotism, I guess we can call or ourselves the Thomas Paine movement. Give us liberty and our country or catch hell from us.