I’m sick of the Ds and the Rs. I’m tired of hearing one side claim moral superiority of the other. My dream for American politics is one where each politician is the <insert name here> party, each with their exact belief system with no constraint to fit the ideas of one of the parties. Ditching labels will allow people to vote their conscience and find someone who really agrees with them.
Without party labels, typical “dems” and “republicans” could begin to adjust their own thinking and vote pragmatically. This may be wildly incorrect, but I believe most Americans think similarly deep down and have moderate views that the media doesn’t show. With this free-flowing political society, the leader of the free world could serve America in a true country-over-party fashion.
Washington needs rational, individualistic politics, not the current tribal madness tearing our country apart.
GW warned of this in his farewell address.
PS: I don’t really have a political stance, I just believe in general libertarian, humanist ideas and a regulated capitalist economy.
I am looking for a discussion with many parts, coming from different angles. How the local politics of a federated society such as the United States affect other nations answered by both Americans and by Non-Americans. Part Two, How do Americans think the world views them and how does the world view Americans politically and maybe socially.
Back when the mueller report was ongoing, i would see a great many articles positing that the president, donald trump, had actually been a russian intelligence asset since the 1980s, in part based on the idea that they routinely reached out to high profile civilians with similar profiles (financial woes and a history of sexual indiscretion in his case). Pretending, for a moment, that this were true or verifiable, what would kgb agents have wanted with someone like that who could not offer military/strategic secrets? Are there other examples we know about of high profile "civilian assets" during the cold war?
