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Originally Posted by **********
Yikes thanks for all of that, but no no no you missed my point. Let me try again - remove DEM and GOP and everything else from the mix, and answer this question:
What / Which politician(s) do you trust?
Bonus question : On which subject? Example: Obamacare, Global Warming, etc..
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I can answer your question:
None of them, on any subject.
Understand the beginning of the United States
A group colonists got together and rebelled against the crown because of increasing interference, taxation and heavy-handed rule. (why is this starting to sound familiar?)
They formed a new government keeping in mind the fact that it would be run by men, and men are greedy, power-hungry and amoral creatures at best.
So they tried to keep the power of the federal government limited, thinking that the states would be where ideas were tried and good ones would be adopted by other states and bad ones would be rejected by it's citizens.
Thus the power of the federal government could be constrained, because they didn't trust the men who would be running it.
But over the centuries those men have worked tirelessly to increase the power of the federal government and reduce the power of the states, thus increasing their own personal power and influence.
Kind of what the founders foresaw, unfortunately they didn't put enough safeguards in place and now we have this stupidly bloated, inefficient and ever hungry federal government that should not be trusted by anyone.
