Bah.
This is a nation of the people by the people and for the people.
Elected officials in the USA will do what a majority of the voters want. You wish for someone who will go by his principles and what the public wants be damned.
There are men you would like. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were two such men. They did what they thought was the thing to do. To hell with public opinion.
The beauty of our system is all politicians have to bow to the public will. A leftist socialist Clinton will sign welfare reform And a Bush will sign lefist educational programs if that is what the public wants.
The great thing about Free Republic and the only reason I support it and post, is it is a chance to reach the lurkers.. it is a chance to convince some of the pubic to my views.
For decades the left has controlled the media. They have controlled what our public knows. Free Republic is a way to redress that imbalance. For if we can educate and persuade the public then under our system of government the job is done. We are a nation of the people by the people and for the people. It is not a nation by the leaders for the leaders and of the leaders. Thank goodnes.. That is what makes us a great nation.
The two parties are not cast in stone. If one can get 70 percent of the voters for anything both parties will fight each other to do it first. It is an axiom. Where the voters go the parties will follow.
People who think the solution is to elect the right people have it all wrong. Convince most voters to your position and both parties will fight to do what you want. No one need even ask them. When the voters agree with you they will elect candidates who willdo your will. That is all their is too it.
Put your faith in the people. Work to teach and educate. If you are successful, no one will need worry about what George Bush will do. He will do what the pubic wants.
The problem with principled men who do as they think fit, is they will not change when wrong. We the people have no control over principled men. Men that will do as the public wants.. even whe the public is wrong.. that is our salvation.
The beauty of our system is not that the people are always right.. they are often wrong. The beauty of our system is that when we go down the wrong path we can retrace and start anew. That is what Jim Rob is pushing.
That is the way to make a difference. You get the most of what you can and you work to move public opinions.
When public opinion is changed the government follows. That is how itworks. It has worked that way for over 200 years.
Uhhh... that wasn't Bush, that was the last guy in the White House who did that.. ;0)
Democracy advocate nonsense.
It is a constitutional republic, which is SUPPOSED to be restrained by individual rights.