http://www.cracked.com/article_21880_6- ... eople.html
it criticises gun culture so I have a feeling it is going to get very controversial soon
NathanLoiselle wrote:All I heard was ... blah, blah, Bush had a good idea, I'm a cwazy mofo!, blah, something blah.
EstebanColberto wrote:It doesn't help that there's basically only two political ideologies in this country. It's true that people join one party or the other for different reasons, but then they'll watch the news network of whichever party you like better then suddenly you really care about guns when all you wanted was a tax cut. It's funny how when I think back to my college days, I'd start forming opinions that didn't make sense.
Air America used to talk about why school vouchers were bad cause it violated the part of the first amendment that said the government can't promote one religion over the other cause people would use the vouchers to send their kids to religious schools. It's a flawed argument cause it's not making anyone go to those schools. It gives you the choice of which school to send your kid so it's not really promoting anything, but I believed it. Then I read an article from a less biased news source that school voucher programs were used in some Scandinavian country and apparently it works there. Then I read another article about how Democrats were pushing for school vouchers in the 90s, just like Republicans used to push for healthcare reform that was similar to what Obamacare is now. That's when I realized it was never about the vouchers. They simply picked it apart just because they couldn't admit that Bush may have had one good idea. It was all about motivating me to get out to vote for their man.
So we have only two parties and neither one can budge on any issue and the issues keep changing cause it really is more about winning the next election than anything else and we have no compromising third party that can mediate between the two. And the President has to win half the vote, so that's why you see Republican candidates from places like New Hampshire taking photos of themselves next to their gun collection they don't really own. I wonder how different this country would be if we had a Parliamentary system like nearly everyone else.
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