[Durus]

I'll go along with the ambition and power part. As far as a desire to serve the public, giving back, and patriotism goes I don't think you can really feel that way without some sort of philosophical underpinnings. My concern is that an unfortunate amount of republican politicians chose the party out of favorable demographics rather then choosing the party that matched their principles. Another concern that I have is that most Democrats have strong principles. Progressive principles of course, which is a fancy way of calling themselves evil as far as I'm concerned, but deep seated unwavering principles just the same.

What we have ended up with is a party that is willing to compromise over any issue in the desire to be elected with an opposing party that will never yield their progressive ideals regardless of the fallout at the ballot box. All in the name of power of course. Progressives aren't limited to such niceties as honesty, reason, or fair elections though because part of their ideology is "the ends justifies the means".

This isn't a good situation to say the least and I think the only solution is to remove the power. Taking the money out of politics is easy in comparison to limiting the power of politicians to constitutional norms.

I am, as ever, open to suggestions.

[Zack Nguyen]

My concern is that an unfortunate amount of republican politicians chose the party out of favorable demographics rather then choosing the party that matched their principles.

You're exactly right! Especially in states where it is difficult to get elected outside of the Republican Party, like Texas. That's just one of the problems you have with great success.

As I stated in my article, I think Democrats are much more humanist than Republicans are conservative or Christian. Many Republicans are humanists as well. They simply approach it differently, and find a different solution to the problem of human depravity.

I think starving government is one great solution. Decrease taxes, get rid of the graduated income tax, anything to strip Congress of its power of destruction over our economy and culture.