DEFINING A POLITICAL PARTY

It seems that most people who claim to be in one party or another can't easily define what makes them in that party by goals or beliefs. It is rather amusing. More often I hear somebody say they are a Democrat because they hate Republicans, or vice versa. Even more ridiculous was the woman interviewed by the media who had bought two of Sara Palin's books to have autographed and was one of the hundred left without signatures when Palin just walked away, unannounced, and disappeared back in her bus while the hundred or so chanted and booed outside the bus. This particular lady who had waited in line for hours in the cold, complained about the $40 she had paid for the two books she was to have had Palin sign, but would now be returning them and would certainly NOT vote for Palin.

How sad that voting for an importance office as the leader of the Free World, rests with such empty reasoning. I would like to believe that an anomaly but know all too clearly from personal conversations that the choice is just as irrelevant and simplistic, all too often. Click here to read the entire resolution. With these criteria, not even Ronald Reagan would be considered a true Democrat. It rather makes the term 'true Democrat' somewhat an oxymoron.

Since the voting box is private, I've always wondered how many people say they are voting for someone just to avoid household arguments. Knowing a few vociferous, dogmatic, and insulting people, if you dare to support someone they do not approve it can become a most unpleasant interaction. Thus it is easy to agree with the loudmouth, making an argument impossible.

It makes a farce out of our system wherein all politicians should put country before party, constitution and laws before religious practice, and not just put all energy into getting re-elected. The system has certainly become as corrupted as software after a virus attack. It would be nice to think that there is action being taken in the Administration to move us away from the disloyal, divisive, falsehood perpetrators of the last group in office.