Republican Party

     The Republican Party is the only political machine left.  They protect the wealth and power of the upper and upper-middle classes.  They don’t concern themselves with issues of national importance unless there are votes involved and it is election year.  You can’t really blame them though.  They don’t know any other life.  They probably even think that by protecting the wealthy and furthering the interests of business before those of the society as a whole they are doing what’s best for the nation.  They are still stuck at that point in history where political participation was for those who were “competent” enough to make those kinds of decisions.  They have think tanks to make those decisions and defend their actions.  No one in the administration has any power, they just relay to the public a pre-determined formula.  What they say in interviews and briefs is consistent with the goals of the party as a whole and if they are questioned or attacked they resort to either not being aware of the specifics or use one of several phrases that every average American has to agree with.  Those who don’t agree that the Patriot Act is helping defend our freedom don’t really have a way to confront this machine and if they ever do the issue is quickly deflected to some other issue that their uninformed, uneducated, outraged at the simple fact that someone would disagree constituency will agree with and then the blemish disappears.  They have taken full advantage of the fact that politics today operate on a day-to-day basis.  Issues are discussed to death in a week and issues that are more complicated are avoided as too divisive.  The battle between these two parties apparently has reached a stalemate and can only be decided by which party lied more today or which politician couldn’t say his words right.  All of the people who vote republican have been brainwashed by their outrageous claim that they have been granted legitimacy by god.  They are the Tories, they are the oppressors, and they are the very people we were trying to escape 230 years ago.  If you are not going to learn enough about politics to vote for our country rather than voting to try to establish a majority in the Senate or House, don’t vote.  Partisanship is the curse of American politics.