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Originally Posted by Azure
No way!
From one extreme to another...that is exactly what the democrats are. Yet, people would jump all over me if I seriously said something like that. Strangely enough, it seems to be alright to stereotype the Republicans around here.
Isn't Ron Paul a Republican too? I guess we should lump him into the 'neo-con, war-mongering, right-wing religious freak' classification too, right? Yet, if you examine his political stance, he is everything 'but' what I just said.
Sadly, just like Obama, people will ignore Ron Paul because he is too much in the middle of things.
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Something very similar happened in Alberta at a provincial level just recently. However, in that case, the middle of the road, appease everyone guy won.
People operate in a gang mentality (for lack of a better word, thanks Tupac). They join on side of a battle and fight to the bitter end. A democrat is likely a democrat for life, same with republicans. They see eachother as bitter enemies for, casting doubt across the entire concept that democracy is for enlightened people.
Indeed, go watch Question Period at Parliament some time and you will see exactly who runs the worlds goverments: pompus ignorant little fools with an intellectual scope of a gnat. For actual intelligence you have to go beyond the elected field and into the civil service.
I take issue with anyone willing to follow an ideology or swear allegiance to a political party. Every situation requires it's due process to determine the best course of action. Application of an ideology decrees there is only one way to approach an issue and completely negates the opportunity to examine it and address it with the best option availible. Narrow thinking prevails.
But all of that was completely off topic.
I havn't seen these CNN stories but they sound really interesting. I watch God Camp and got suitably disturbed by it. There are some people in the States actively trying to form a mass population of obidient zealots who will vote to keep themselves and their cronies in power. The rhetoric spewed out of some of these church groups is really disturbing. Makes me glad I live in Canada where the worst we have to deal with is the occasional farmer complaining about gun control. At least our government can't turn it's military on the population to any degree of effect.