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Originally Posted by Jay  My request is that we stop focusing on Democrats, Republicans, or Independents, or Hari Krishna's, or any other mantra, and start shoveling the constitution down the throats of anyone who we can corner. |
Isn't it sad how so many people get caught up in the noise and just can't seem to keep their eye on the important things? I couldn't agree more with this comment. I'm a firm believer that there are some good people in any of the political parties and that there are bad ones too.
Collectively, both of the major parties seem to be more focused on getting re-elected than actually making sure that they are keeping sacred the things that made us the United States of America in the first place. Doing whatever it takes to get re-elected sounds good at first (listing to your constituents, yada, yada, yada), until you look a little deeper and realize that the primary method of making oneself look good politically is to make your adversary look worse.
Most campaigns are negative. That is to say that the candidate's platform isn't usually "I'm the best choice because I'll bring ______ to the table." Instead, it seems to be "I'm the best candidate because he/she is worse." Yeah, that builds all kinds of confidence.
The problem is that we seem to be trying to get 'better' laws to build on
bad ones that were built on
unnecessary laws in the first place. It's a lot like throwing good money after bad. That seldom works well.
I believe that some amount of governance is necessary, but good Lord. Couldn't we just get back to the basics of the Constitution? Isn't that the road map that set the stage for our country to prosper and become both the greatest AND most powerful nation on Earth?
It seems many of our elected officials stay focused on writing this law or that one in response to one or two specific situations - and usually when there was already another law to address the situation. They see it as showing people that they are doing something. I see it as making things more complicated when enforcement of the laws that already exist would have solved the problem in the first place.
The Constitution is kind of like the original 10 Commandments (the Constitution for mankind if you will) in that it is a good basis that covers the important aspects of living in our nation...everything else is noise.
Now I'll step off my soap box.