ok, lets me rant a little bit over politics and government in general. Neither the far right or far left work. need proof?
Russia... enough said about far left, but there are more examples all over the place.
Start of the industrial revolution the companies mostly had total free reign and treated workers like crap the environment like crap and it was a very bad situation. so the far right does not work either.
Now fundamentally what does work?
Well to make a long story short. The most efficient way is the Republican way, small central government with bigger local governments. Though I wonder if many Republicans even remember this.
Ideally the local governments would respond to the problems of there community, as they are the ones that understands the unique problems of the area they live in. This simple fact makes this system much more efficient, and give much more of the power to the people, as its much easier to voice your needs to someone that looks out after 1000 peoples needs then someone that looks out after 100,000,000 peoples needs.
Now how do we explain that the democratic party even still exists as it probably should not, but it is good to keep the far right in check. I think this is related to a fundamental problem that has been building over a long time. The mentality of the poor, lower middle class, and much of the middle class don't believe in hard work like we use to. Much of them want to do less and get paid more or get more handouts to improve there standard of living. This is a large portion of the population.
Fundamentally I think the majority of the country is still right center, which is also the correct place to be fundamentally. The last few years the Republicans have done a very poor job, and have really lost there way. This is why we now have a Democratic president and congress.
The Republican need to find themselves and get back to there roots. We need less central government and need the people to have the power. But more then this, we need to educate people as to why the Democratic,liberal) view is fundamentally flawed. And that a large central government redistributing wealth is not only bad, but will probably bankrupt the country, as you cant discourage people from succeeding, at the same time encourage people to do less and get handouts. And that form of government leads to mediocrity.
We have to accept our current situation and work to bring the disenfranchised voters back to the right center. The radicals severely hurt this effort and push these people further the other way.
To be honest, right now there are many other issues that are much greater then our right to bare arms, and I dont think anyone in the government is going to try to go after them right now and increase the rift that has grown in this country. Right now your going to see the focus on the economy, and will probably see that for some years to come.,But, we will be vigilant encase the try)
I think its also important to point out that this crisis started in housing in which the democrats caused. The media did a great job pushing it on the republicans, and I think somehow it needs to come out that it was the democratic congress that cause this problem.
I know this wont be popular, but a lot of good can come out of Obama being president. If he goes to the center, he can heal this country more then McCain ever could have. He also helps our image on the world stage tremendously. If he doesn't stay far left, he has the opportunity, that no other candidate really had.
With that being said I really doubt he will go to the center from what I have seen, such as his first appointment of Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff... honestly I think we are screwed for some years to come, and I hope I am wrong.
Bottom line is he is the president elect. We have to give him a fair shot and support him. If he does crazy stupid thing then we need to point em out and protest them, in a civil way. This is the best way to return the masses to our side.
Eli
