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Originally Posted by Kokukirin
How is it a fantasy when there are news of Republican politicians who represented district X for over 20 years getting unseated by Tea Party rookie at primaries?
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It is a fantasy to think most republicans are in danger of losing their seats, the Tea's party influence is exagerated in the media.
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Some (republicans) who used to work with Democrats do not compromise any more because of that.
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The sad part is that the climate is so politicaly polarized that people are voting for legislators that will simply seat in their bench and say no to anything that does not have the conservatire seal of approval and as I said before, is in the compromise that legislatures really help their country because no political party has the correct answers for everything.
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No, the point is democracy is not perfect. It does not have desired effect most of the time. But the fact that it appears to fail does not mean it is not a proper democracy. The votes still count. Politicians cannot just ignore their voters.
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When you have a political systems that agrees to disagree you then must change to a
parlamentary democracy where you must have a minimum level of agreement.
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Yes, big corporations have a lot of influence in politics. They make up a significant part of donations (probably a larger percentage for Republicans). It is unfortunate that in the US corporations are people and donations are freedom of speech. But more campaign funding does not automatically win you a seat. It only gives an advantage in terms of more commercials and campaigning. In the end they still have to win the votes.
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Think about for a minute, BOTH candidates MUST get corporative sponsorship to attempto to win the race, NO candidate can expect to get elected witouth corporative sponsorship. So no matter who wins, in the end corporations will have their way, the only difference will be which corporations get which legislators.
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Also, the extremism in Republican party cannot be accounted for by corporate influences alone. The corporations don't like political deadlock much more than you do.
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I do not think that when main street is doing badly big corporations also suffer. In a sense what they want is for everything to stay the sameso they can continue to profit as usual, so deadlock suits them just fine. Of course, small companies (those who provide most of jobs) do suffer, but they cannot afford to buy politicians.
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it is not a good time for a Republican candidate to compromise. That's why you saw a deadlock during the debt ceiling drama, and smooth passage of bills that benefit corporations but do not draw much voter attention.
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It is sad that compromise has become a taboo word when that is what legislators are supposed to do -_- People do not realize that in the end they are being manupulated, that washington is "business as usual" even tough they think legislators are doing their best by opposing anything that comes from the opposite party,