01-12-2017, 12:50 PM
(01-12-2017, 12:37 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Bingo. Like the Republicans during Obama's term who were more interested in seeing Obama failing than in fixing the country, you can already see that Democrats plan to do the same with Trump.
It's because the parties themselves are about elections, not policy. It's one of the flaws in our system that the parties have no formal structure within government. The only real structure and authority they have are the committees that raise funds and sell the electorate their candidates. Sure, there is some unity among the elected officials that ran under the same banner, but it is all surface level.
With the two-party system and parties that really only have a hand in elections, we can expect nothing more than this.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
