Groucho Marx once said, “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”
Two hundred and twenty six years ago, we had our very first president, George Washington.
Our very first party was the Democratic Republican system, which worked well under Washington’s reign. Then, Thomas Jefferson took office and made his system more Democratic, meaning he believed in state rights and cared more about the lower class. This created a fissure in the political foundations, thus carving the way for a new systematic party.
Then our eighth president, Martin Van Buren, officially broke away from the Democratic Republican Party, and created the Democrats in 1836. It worked, and we’ve had a string of Democrats and Republicans for presidents ever since.
Politics was a very serious thing, but something got lost somewhere, and now politics is nothing but a comedy.
The political debates are supposed to help us see where the running nominees stand, but now it’s nothing more than a farce, a comedy show to see which candidate can talk the most mess on the others. We care more about who was the funniest, than who answered the most questions.
Politics was a very serious thing, but something got lost somewhere, and now politics is nothing but a comedy.
Even when questions are asked, the answers are always: “Well, my opponent would tell you this, and I think he’s wrong.” They talk around the question, instead of answering the question itself. Now, no one seems to care at all about the political agenda, but instead more about who’s funnier and sassier.
People aren’t getting chosen because of what they stand for, but because they are affiliated with a certain party. Democrats vote for Democrats and Republicans vote for Republicans, which is the stupidest thing ever.
According to the latest article for the New York Times, the candidates for 2016 are as followed: For the Democrats: Chaffe, Hilary Clinton, Lessig, O’Malley, Sanders, and Webb. For the Republicans: Jeb Bush, Carson, Chrisite, Cruz, Fiorina, Gilmore, Graham, Huckabee, Jindal, Kasich, Pataki, Paul, Rubio, Santorum, and, of course, Donald Trump.
On September 14th, 2015, CNN held a GOP Debate. Trump, of course, instead of answering the questions asked of him ferociously attacked his opponents. Yet, people are still willing to vote him because the people were entertained by what he said. Trump is now in the lead for the race.
People aren’t getting chosen because of what they stand for, but because they are affiliated with a certain party. Democrats vote for Democrats and Republicans vote for Republicans…
Politics isn’t about what the Government can do for the people. That disappeared a long time ago. Now it’s which candidates can charm us the most or entertain us the longest. The art of politics, doing what’s right, and changing the country for the better, no longer applies. What matters the most is who is the most entertaining.