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Response to the original post: First, I'm a Christian that agrees with conservative ideology(Money cannot fix a problem. Only changing human nature). I tend to vote Republican. My beliefs about life are more that of a deist than most theological christians. I didn't support the Republican senator elected from my state, David Vitter. I felt that many things about his campaign were wrong especially his "Lets all buy drugs from Canada!" plan.
My first problem is, my beliefs and concerns are not completely represented by any political candidate. I belief this was the case of the presidential race for many people.
Second, I can tell you that I fall into the same category as millions of other Americans. Like most of you, I'm part of middle class America. My concern is that the 2 presidential candidates that we were able to select from represented less than 1% of our population. They cannot identify with virtually any American. They cannot identify with most of us. I don't think the problem is with who wins the president, I believe it is with the type of people that run our nation.
The Senate is often referred to as the millionaire's club. And just look at. The fact that these senators have depend on constituent's words or other polls and studies by close advisors says alot about the state of our political sate. Our democracy is starting to shape up all too much like that described by Aristotle who placed democracy as the worst form of government, which in its natural state is run by rich and corrupt officials. I think we are at that stage.
Did anyone else feel like they were following a class president this election? It feels like this candidates toss out money at us, have us argue over who is the cooler person and cheer defeat as our candidate wins the election(presidency). Or have us complain over the conditions at which the winner won the competition.
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