Are you serious?! Um... let's see here... what're those things called, in the Bill of Rights, you know... Oh yeah! Inalienable rights! And what's one of those rights? Right to privacy! That's it! Stupid fargin' FEEBS! ARGH! Yes, Jesse, you have an excellent point on music to make money versus music to make an expression. That's why pop culture sucks so much. Thirdly, why is the music industry trying to put yet more money into its pockets when it already makes a king's ransom every year (this is true to the extent that the mafia is literally jealous of the profit margin turned by the music industry)? ARGH! STUPID FEEBS! JUST STAY OUT OF PEOPLE'S LIVES!!
They are currently trying to pass a bill which allows the music industry to hack your computer and delete your mp3's. First, is this not an invasion of privacy? Secondly, if someone is only singing to make money, I don't want to listen to them, music should be a median by which to express your self, not to get rich. Well this is my rant of the day, respond.
Primaries would cease to exist (hateful, hateful things they are), giving the possibility of an infinite number of candidates (the perfect Democratic society). Why not just give everyone an equal chance, Jesse? Why?
The same day Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation he also put a bounty on every single Native Americans head. If this isn't evil I don't know what is. This may affect me more than you for I am a fairly large part Native American. If this doe not affect you, you are a heartless bastard. Abraham Lincoln is no where near the best President; I would say that the title belongs to Teddy Roosevelt or Nixon.
Also Political Parties are important because we need them to keep the people belonging with us near, and the ones not, ex: Ralf Nader far, far away never. Also how would the primaries work without political parties? If it were just by conservative and liberal then would there only be two possible candidates?
Jesse, I didn't say that I would agree that Washington was our nation's greatest President, I merely stated that one could argue that statement (I'd give the title of best President to Abraham Lincoln). Plus, why do you say that? I feel that politics can (and often is) far to one-dimensional. Plus, people still can, if they had to (liberal versus conservative or moderate). Political parties are indeed an important part of our current system, but they don't need to be. Far more people could be interested in politics if their ideas weren't confined to "Democratic" or "Republican". Plus, its not like we couldn't still make fun of liberals... But thats all for now. Andrew, Jeff and Andy, what do you all think?
First off Franson, Washington is far from the best president of all times. Secondly we need political parties so that a persons political beliefes can be summed up in a single word. It gives us somone to side with, a sence of being. Political parties are an important part of politics, and I'm fairly sure they would naturaly form due to people grouping together who have similar beliefes. Just think of it this way, we couldnt make fun of democrats if they didn't exist.
Are they a good thing? Are they a bad thing? Are you indifferent? What's your take?
Anyways, I say that parties are bad. Echoing our first and arguably greatest President, I do not believe in the political party system. It unnecessarily stereotypes the correct path for government, both liberal and conservative. Thus, most who have true epiphanies about government are shunned from mainstream politics, hence the evil of political parties. And that's about all. Send in your thoughts!
To further clarify my beliefs, I believe that the absolutely ideal system would be where absolutely everyone in all the land had an equal opportunity to run for office. The lowliest bum on the street would have just as good a chance as the rich executive. However, I can never see that happening, as America is run by rich men and always has been. However, the next best thing I can see is eliminating people without an ounce of common sense and/or a brain between their ears (we're not talking really stringent standards of knowledge here... No more stringent than the current standards for being President). That's all.
I strongly disagree with you on your stance that only people of a certain intelligence can run for office. If it is decided for you who can and cannot run for office is that not evil? Is it just me or does that seem just the slightest bit fascist? I believe any American should have the right to run for president, for even though a person may have a lower IQ per se, he still may have more common sense than a person of higher IQ. This isn't to say this is always true though, take for instance Jimmy Carter, nice guy, potato farmer, but he had no common sense when it came to being president. He was the worst president in American history, we had I believe it was something like 400% inflation during his presidency(correct my figure if its wrong). We can't just go cutting off people options because their of lower intelligence or feebs, because that it self is unconstitutional and isn't right in any sense.
Which is what frightens me about the liberals trying to rewrite the Bill of Rights.
