I guess I should have made this my first post.
Anytime you turn on the news and it comes to politics you always hear about republicans and democrats. The left vs the right, red vs blue, donkey vs elephant.
My father was a die hard republican, he was also Hispanic and black. My dad could not be debated, he listened to one radio station because the rest was just communist propaganda. But I could understand his reasoning. He lived and suffered first hand under a communist regime. Those graphic pictures at the end of my last post, he's saw images like those first hand, people he knew, my grandfather was summarily executed in a protest 12 days after that regime took power. The current president of his country ordered it himself. My father enjoyed over 20 years of forced labor and he was lucky.
For him America was freedom, the president who granted him said freedom was Ronald Reagan, he was the enemy of his enemy. He would forever have my father's loyalty as well as his party.
Unfortunately for him I was not a die hard republican like him. I found myself agreeing with many things and disagreeing with just as many. I also found myself agreeing with the democrats half the time. I also noticed that if I explained my points my father would agree with me. But he would never question his party. I'm all for small government and less taxes, strong military is a definite. But our defense budget is insane, taxes can't be lowered on guys who profit off Americans by selling them products built by cheap Chinese labor and pocketing the profits. I can't seem to agree with the policy of doing nothing or stopping bills even if you agree with them just to piss of the other side.
As far as democrats go, they have a better pulse of the social needs of this country, they also lean more towards being isolated from foreign affairs and focusing on domestic issues. But they want to be involved in everything, they want a program and a law for every facet of human life. England is a democrats paradise, speed limit cameras everywhere, tax on everything, congestion charges, basically fancy communism. I agree with expanding healthcare, and not limiting people based on preexisting conditions, but before we did that we should've looked at the cost of health care. One hospital visit with a urine test and some painkillers is 5 grand! 400 for an ambulance ride 100's for the pills. That needs to be controlled before taxpayers foot the bill. Forcing everyone to have health insurance or else is what I'm against. Giving more requirements to all ready struggling small businesses I'm against.
So what am I a democrat or a republican. Neither, I am an Independent. Politicians need my vote and regardless of which party is in power, my party tips the scales. We need to be courted for our votes. We compare both side dispassionately and vote accordingly. We don't do rallies, donations, or fundraising. We're looking at the issues. Most importantly, we are not sheep. We ignore the ad's and wait for the debates. We look at politician's backgrounds. You never know how we're going to vote until election day. We don't have to worry about agreeing with the other guy on some points because we have no party to anger. We are democracy, we like discussion and compromise.
If more politicians were Independents, the health care bill would have been looked at harder and revised, and this "fiscal cliff" would have been averted. But Independents don't have colors, animals or slogans. We don't have a core set of "ideals" we have the constitution and the bill of rights. That's it.
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