All Partisanship Aside. Can WE all admit the system is broken?

Question

When I think of What's wrong with America, I think of people who are powerless to do anything about it. I think they are powerless to do anything because the system is broken. A broken system is one that doesn't solve the problems and the mechanisms in place to fix the broken problem are also broken. Can we all agree on this? Can we agree the 2 political parties are s******g up our ability to fix the problems we see?

Answer 1

I agree that it is absolutely broken thanks to Bush and the GOP.  They have shredded the constitution and are more concerned with the prosperity of their party than with the prosperity of America.

Answer 2

I don't agree with anything you write.

Answer 3

It is not just the two political parties. It is, in the final analysis, the people. Those who have been conditioned, since the Spring of 1933, to view the President as some sort of Federal Wizard King, rather than the person elected to carry out the duties specified in Article Two of the Constitution. Those who constitute an overwhelming majority who have never read the Constitution in the first place. The majority who are eligible to vote but are not registered to do so. The majority who don't even know the name of their local Member of Congress.  Those who stand with hands out to ask the politicians for more from the public purse, putting forth the idea of "taxing the rich more" to do it, without the simplest bit of knowledge of our economic system or the tax code.

And both of those political parties know this and exploit this. They know the voters will more frequently ask: "What are you going to do for me?", rather than the question we should be asking those who are seeking office: "What is it that you think you can do as an elected official that you can't presently do as a private citizen?".

So,  we fall for the blandishments and the empty promises made by the venal and incompetent to guide the clueless through another election cycle. Once again we will have surrendered the chance, through our role in the electoral process and through the blessings of Article One of the Constitution,  to "overthrow  the government" by electing all new members of the House of Representatives and new Senators for one-third of the Senate.   And, when the whole fragile house of cards comes crashing down on us we find the only part of our anatomy that still works is the pointing finger of blame.

Answer 4

No, because the system is not broken.

Answer 5

All partisanship aside, no we can't.

Look, the system isn't perfect- we all know this- because we aren't perfect.  The democratic system however, is self correcting.  Sure, this crisis seems apocalyptic and world-ending right now, but all things pass.  While democracy isn't perfect, it's better than the alternatives.

Not that I think you'll agree.  From the tone of your question, you're already convinced that your opinion is correct.  Fine.  Then why aren't you doing something about it?

One thing I do agree with however is the fallacy of the two party system.  I would much rather have a multi-party democracy.  The two party system is too divisive.

Answer 6

The system isn't broken, this is just the way it is. Think about it. People will never all have the same beliefs. Would you rather have a system where someone says that something needs to be done and just doing it without any say of the people. We elect people to reflect our beliefs in the government. This greatly slows the process of problems getting worked out, but it gives the citizens the right to vote for who runs the country and let their voices be heard.