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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
I'd like to nominate this statement for The Unsupportable Statement Hall of Fame. I didn't realize that the 2-party system caused the levies to overflow in New Orleans
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Federal funding that was supposed to go toward making the levies a lot stronger never materialized. That's traceable directly to Congress and the president, and anything an elected official does today is traceable to the 2 party system since that's what got those idiots elected in the first place.
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or hurricane damage in Florida over the past 3 years to be so severe that it's virtually impossible to buy insurance coverage for wind losses.
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You keep throwing easy ones my way. Obviously the hurricane damage itself isn't what's wrong with this country. We don't blame Japan as a nation when they have an earthquake, do we? But the fact that you can't get insurance coverage is, in fact, directly traceable to the 2-party government that lets insurance companies get away with fleecing the entire American public on a nauseatingly routine basis.
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Imagine my surprise at the 2 party system's nefarious plotting with the Amish school shooter!
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Clearly the actions of one deranged individual does not fall in the category of "what's wrong with an entire country," however the argument could be made that the guy should have been in a mental hospital where he couldn't harm society, but unfortunately our brilliant two party government de-institutionalized the mental healthcare system, shutting down a vast number of mental hospitals and kicking their deranged occupants out into the world to fend for themselves. This is also why there are so many psychotic homeless people out there right now.
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I'm not sure if you're advocating a true democracy or outright anarchy,
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I think he's advocating a return to sanity in politics. Many democrats are so far out on the left wing that they can barely see the airplane, and many republicans (neocons, I'm talking to you) are so far out on the right wing that they're on another airplane, while their constituents, both republican and democrat, sit in the middle wondering why they can't find good representation in government. It's funny how the politician dems and republicans are so far apart, but with the exception of the religion-based issues, the average joes I talk to every day, whether republican or democrat, are usually fairly close to each other in what they want to see happen in the country.
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but you seem to have missed the basic idea that lawmakers answer directly to their constituents.
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They don't anymore. This might be true in a system where the constituents know what their lawmakers are doing in their name, but the media doesn't often break votes down by congressman, and no one watches CSPAN anymore, so really lawmakers aren't nearly as accountable to their people as they should be.