As an Independent, I harbor equal malice toward all political parties and most politicians. They're ALL wrong.
Fire 'em all and bar them from holding any public office of any kind. Replace them with people who don't like leaving their real jobs to go do politics.
And how to spread that gospel???
I mean, most of us are for term limits. Most of us think our parties are not acting in the national, but only self, interest. Most of us think the US is in decline and that includes people on the other side, especially black folks, confronting the reality that the last 5 years have seen their lives decline along with the rest of us. They ARE us. We ARE them.
The trick is to find a way to avoid falling into the D v. R trap where, suddenly, our wart covered, self serving asshat who is running the nation into the ground all of a sudden is this gorgeous swan, with only our best interests at heart when he or she is compared to the OTHER guys. We are at the point where we KNOW it is one turd and we KNOW we're trying to argue it can be picked up by the clean end but we CAN'T help ourselves.
It is NOT them. It is we, the people.
My god, I was just reading how the Fed owns 4 times the public debt it did back in '08, from $500 bil to $2 trillion, not to mention another $1.3 trillion in mortgages!!! All this in some sort of desperate attempt to solve the crisis of 1929. That is about 20% of GDP, to over simplify, simply made up. Economic activity we are pretending happened in an effort to get the economy going again. An economy where we, the people, don't have money to spend because we have so much of our own debt, piled on by this new debt strangling activity and, in the mean time, basics like food and energy suck up everything else AND health care grows, incessantly and uninterpreted, well past 6% of GPD with the entitlement bubble just now getting its groove on!!!
None of this makes sense from a general welfare standpoint and it isn't working. If you were rich, you're probably richer. If you're poor, you have more company but, the middle class is shrinking. We're focusing on both ends, the exact opposite of what needs to be; a healthy, thriving, growing middle class.
Then, we listen to the president. We listen to what little opposition there is that isn't some radio jock. And, what do we hear, where are we being lead that makes ANY sense?
