I do agree with you that both parties suck.
thats my point, quibbling over who is worse and when, etc is an irrelevant distraction.
IMO, we need a 3rd party and perhaps a rethinking of the entire system with the exception of the bill of rights. I don't think its realistic to expect a document written several hundred years ago, as great as it is, to adequately address the complexities of our times but of course we never hear any honest and logical discussions about the issues that really matter because both sides are too busy dividing everyone into two factions over mundane bullshit in order to distract everyone from the fact neither party seems able to accomplish anything more than driving our national debt through the roof and spending more and more and more and more......I'm completely dumbfounded how the system hasn't had a catastrophic crash.
if you and I spent the way our government does, we'd be bankrupt and no one would lend us a nickel. What does our government do when they can no longer sell bonds to pay for the ever-expanding debt ceiling?
print money?
Gawd help us when that happens
But what do I know, I'm just a stodgy, middle aged CPA and I guess that makes me incapable of seeing the logic behind this never ending spending and debt because I'm blinded by a world that has consequences for such behavior.
PS..I'm not a LIBBO or whatever moniker you'd like to ascribe to me..I'm politically agnostic (if not aesthetic) in my believe in government and the notion of a single leader has always been incredibly stupid, no one man should ever have much power and should never be worshipped. I want as little government as possible but where it does exist, I want it forced to stay within budgets from actual tax revenues received with every entities mission statement to be "we seek our own demise due to lack of necessity". Of course thats far too pragmatic of a position to take so it'll never happen