Obama's broken campaign promises...

[*PhilHos*]

(01-12-2017, 12:50 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.

Yep. I find myself becoming more and more disillusioned with our current state of political affairs at the federal level. I actually find myself wishing I could go back to being a less informed voter and just voting for only those with an R by their names. I feel like it'd be better to be ignorant than informed, at least in terms of my emotional health when it comes to the effect politics has on it.

I blame the liberals for this.