They aren’t identical. Like I said, they are two differing management styles to the same agenda. That agenda is, and has always been, keeping the rich and powerful rich and powerful. Only when the populace reaches a critical mass do the politicians take action for the common good. What this tells me is that changing the hearts and minds of the people is a more effective method for change than voting will ever be.
All you are seeing is the result of a partisan us versus them propaganda machine. The underlying cause and effect is not shown on the charts and figures you post. We only see the interpretation of the data as presented by those with a partisan viewpoint.
Take the war in Iraq for example. We now call this Bush’s war. Yet, some of us remember the decades long runup to that war. The UN wanted Hussein removed because he was gassing his own people and shooting down US peackeeper flights protecting those people he was killing. Over and over the UN warned him and told him that the UN would move in militarily and remove him. Finally, when the UN had had enough, the US and NATO forces invaded. Yet, the partisans call it Bush’s war when he was only involved at the very end and was approved of by a Democrat lead congress.
Partisanship rewrote history and we seem to just accept that.
As I’ve said, rational conservatives and rational liberals are not so different. They only differ in where they fear evil will originate. The problem is the national perception of us versus them creates a lens of insanity where reality can only be viewed along partisan lines. I submit to you that this partisanship is the greater evil.
That’s probably because you have decided what positive change looks like and label anything else as wrong. The problem is that you don’t get to decide what everyone else thinks positive change looks like.
We don’t have a democracy and we never did. Ostensibly we have a republic but in truth we have a system that is bought and paid for. Participation in such a corrupt enterprise is immoral and should be discouraged.
There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all! -Mario Savio
