Jake,

I agree that the politica system there is badly broken. It's getting that way here too, real quick.

But I do think there is another "solution" - fix it.

Just trying to allow it less and less power is not a good answer in my opinion.



>>>The NY Times is not partisan IMO. It is sometimes portrayed that way by those who don't like unfawning coverage.
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>>Mike, how about yourself? Are you not a 'non partisan', by chance?
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>This will sound funny to most I'm sure, but I consider myself to be non-partisan. I will explain.
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>I have equal loathing for both parties depending on the issue at hand. For the most part I find all politicians to be lying, power hungry, elitist know-it-alls who are one step above reality stars on the fame-whore ladder.
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>Politics has become such an insiders game that one must sell their votes to the highest bidders at all levels to achieve elected status. Even the occasional revolution provides only a small window of opportunity for a disruption in the day-to-day grind before the machine assimilates them into the party fold or spits them out without funding their re-election bid.
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>Is there any doubt as to why I do not want these people to have any more power than they already exert over us? The process of government has become such a vacuum of thought under a microscope of press that the great leaders among us rarely choose to participate. Instead they choose to pursue a career in the private sector where their lives are not under constant surveillance.
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>The overwhelming power of the government must be constrained. The very idea of America as a free-market, capitalist, representative republic has been eroded for nearly 100 years with little change in direction and even less chance of retraction. I agree with Obama that the time for change is now, the problem is his idea of change is to continue the process away from our foundation at greater speed.