No "Perfect" Party
The more I learn about politics, the more I notice people who view them through rose-colored glasses. I am astonished at how many people seem to think there is one "perfect" political party out there. Such a concept is ludicrous in my eyes. We live in a diverse nation and for one to expect precise perfection baffles me -- it is difficult enough to strive for perfection among common belief systems let alone diverse ones! Although I tend to lean more toward being a democrat, there is really no perfect party. There are some things I like about rebublican values and some things I hate about democratic ones.
Republicans: Republicans are the "conservatives" of our nation's society. They typically strive to conserve our nation's "traditional" values (i.e., marriage between man and woman). They also believe in self-determination. In America's capitalist economy, they believe that each citizen of the United States of America is capable of becoming whatever it is they wish to become -- they can do this by means of obtaining higher education, personal profit, etc. However, my problem with these traditional notions, however great and dreamy they may seem, is that they fail to consider the negative effects that a capitalist/traditionalist economy can have on the underprivledged members of society. This idea of "conserving" traditional values leaves little room for the recovery of mistakes. Many children in today's society are being forced to suffer from the mistakes their parents made, or even that their grandparents made. Under republican rule, it seems that if you're born into poverty you're practically damned to poverty -- unless the government steps in which, generally, is better done by democrats. Republicans seem to have little pity for the impoverished -- blaming them for their mistakes and not the government. Granted, many are responsible yet -- what about those small business owners in my hometown of Cleburne, TX who were forced to file for bankruptcy when Sam Walton's mega-billion dollar corporation, Walmart (specifically Super Walmart), came into town and shut them down? Who is to blame for the "mistakes" of these unfortunate small business owners? How many more sanctions are the republicans going to give to these overpowering corporations without providing relief to these small business owners? There are American citizens out there that our economy actively and naturally works against, no matter how hard they may work to just survive. Yet republican politicians, still, have little sympathy for people like this -- providing little aide in the area of human services. Then there are the democrats...
Democrats: A few years ago I truly resented these usually liberalistic individuals. I still resent many of the things they do: supporting a woman's right to choose (i.e., abortion). People -- if you have sex you'd better dang well know the consequences! Babies do come from sex and you'd better be able to deal with that. I have no sympathy, except for in instances of rape, for those who engage in sex and then expect to use abortion as a method of birth control. These women must suffer the consequences of their actions! What I do like about democrats is that they are willing to provide money to the human services to help the people I mentioned who the economy naturally works against. They realize that there are more poor people here and abroad then there are filthy rich ones. Many people hate democrats because they like to play "Robin Hood" - stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Well, they don't "steal" but they do "provide" for the poor and disadvantaged. Democrats tend to be aware of the sometimes negative impacts of capitalism and the notion of "self-determinism". Instead of giving tax cuts to the rich, they want to provide tax cuts to the middle class -- the majority. Tax cuts to the rich sounds nice, but where do they spend that money? They don't readily put it back into the economy. Instead they tend to invest in these big corporations who are already filthy rich, as well as in personal pleasures such a Corvettes and Picasso's. How that is intended to help our economy just blows my mind. A pitfall to the democrats liberal ways are that people in our society are just, simply, not honest enough to make many of their plans work. Many of the rich despise the idea of welfare and they do so for good reasons. There are many people, right now, who are not in need of assistance who are blatantly abusing our welfare system. These people claim to be severely impoverished when, in reality, they are far from it -- they live off the tax payers money thus leaving the real needy in helpless and hopeless situations -- the rich not wanting to help liars -- not that the rich don't lie themselves (in fact, many rich persons have gotten there through deciet). I believe that America has a calling today to restore honesty in its society. If we can find a way to effectively do this, then we can eventually find a way to make the ways of the democratic party be the best (yet still not perfect) ways for the American people.
- Holly
Republicans: Republicans are the "conservatives" of our nation's society. They typically strive to conserve our nation's "traditional" values (i.e., marriage between man and woman). They also believe in self-determination. In America's capitalist economy, they believe that each citizen of the United States of America is capable of becoming whatever it is they wish to become -- they can do this by means of obtaining higher education, personal profit, etc. However, my problem with these traditional notions, however great and dreamy they may seem, is that they fail to consider the negative effects that a capitalist/traditionalist economy can have on the underprivledged members of society. This idea of "conserving" traditional values leaves little room for the recovery of mistakes. Many children in today's society are being forced to suffer from the mistakes their parents made, or even that their grandparents made. Under republican rule, it seems that if you're born into poverty you're practically damned to poverty -- unless the government steps in which, generally, is better done by democrats. Republicans seem to have little pity for the impoverished -- blaming them for their mistakes and not the government. Granted, many are responsible yet -- what about those small business owners in my hometown of Cleburne, TX who were forced to file for bankruptcy when Sam Walton's mega-billion dollar corporation, Walmart (specifically Super Walmart), came into town and shut them down? Who is to blame for the "mistakes" of these unfortunate small business owners? How many more sanctions are the republicans going to give to these overpowering corporations without providing relief to these small business owners? There are American citizens out there that our economy actively and naturally works against, no matter how hard they may work to just survive. Yet republican politicians, still, have little sympathy for people like this -- providing little aide in the area of human services. Then there are the democrats...
Democrats: A few years ago I truly resented these usually liberalistic individuals. I still resent many of the things they do: supporting a woman's right to choose (i.e., abortion). People -- if you have sex you'd better dang well know the consequences! Babies do come from sex and you'd better be able to deal with that. I have no sympathy, except for in instances of rape, for those who engage in sex and then expect to use abortion as a method of birth control. These women must suffer the consequences of their actions! What I do like about democrats is that they are willing to provide money to the human services to help the people I mentioned who the economy naturally works against. They realize that there are more poor people here and abroad then there are filthy rich ones. Many people hate democrats because they like to play "Robin Hood" - stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Well, they don't "steal" but they do "provide" for the poor and disadvantaged. Democrats tend to be aware of the sometimes negative impacts of capitalism and the notion of "self-determinism". Instead of giving tax cuts to the rich, they want to provide tax cuts to the middle class -- the majority. Tax cuts to the rich sounds nice, but where do they spend that money? They don't readily put it back into the economy. Instead they tend to invest in these big corporations who are already filthy rich, as well as in personal pleasures such a Corvettes and Picasso's. How that is intended to help our economy just blows my mind. A pitfall to the democrats liberal ways are that people in our society are just, simply, not honest enough to make many of their plans work. Many of the rich despise the idea of welfare and they do so for good reasons. There are many people, right now, who are not in need of assistance who are blatantly abusing our welfare system. These people claim to be severely impoverished when, in reality, they are far from it -- they live off the tax payers money thus leaving the real needy in helpless and hopeless situations -- the rich not wanting to help liars -- not that the rich don't lie themselves (in fact, many rich persons have gotten there through deciet). I believe that America has a calling today to restore honesty in its society. If we can find a way to effectively do this, then we can eventually find a way to make the ways of the democratic party be the best (yet still not perfect) ways for the American people.
- Holly
posted by Holly at 7:22 PM
1 Comments:
just stumbled onto your site... just a couple random comments coming from someone who has mixed views on both political parties but leans more conservative, since you wrote out such a well-thought-out entry:
the main reason i lean conservative is that i find that ppl don't appreciate what they don't pay for. for example (i'll use medicine here since that's what i do), many many ppl finish med school w/ $200,000 loans just from med school alone. then they do 3-8 years of $40K, working 80 hrs/wk (complete with 30-hour shifts) doing all the scutwork for the hospitals. and then after that, they are FINALLY able to rake in the dough. the idea of making those ppl essentially pay for those who dropped out of college and now live off of welfare for no reason other than laziness... well, it boggles my mind. if everyone in the country shared resources, what would be the incentive for becoming educated? heck, if i didn't want my porsche and if i didn't want to send my (future) kids to college, i too would be perfectly fine staying at home and living off of the government!
i agree with you that ppl who voluntarily have sex should reap their consequences. however, i guess i differ from you in that i believe that it is far much better to allow legal abortions than to have even more abandoned and neglected kids in the world. personally i've done many abortions (for medical reasons) during medical school, and it's not the gentlest of procedures. i wouldn't wish that on anyone.
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