Partisan institutions

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Concentrated power in any form will corrupt any institution.

What's wrong with U.S. politics? Great op-ed in the NYT: the <a href="http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/the-unraveling-of-government/?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fopinion%2Findex.jsonp">two-party system</a> and the ideological circus that surrounds it. There's no hope to ever elect pragmatic, non-ideological representatives as long as those entities have supplanted our democratic institutions.

There's definitely a time for ideology (e.g., dismantling Jim Crow) but not when it's a tool to grab and maintain power over the populace.
 
Thanks for posting. Great article.

Obama and Romney are perfect examples of partisan hacks that we are forced to choose between.
 
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Thanks for posting. Great article.

Obama and Romney are perfect examples of partisan hacks that we are forced to choose between.
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If Obama was just your average run of the mill incompetent democrat socialist I'd vote for Paul or Johnson. From where I sit though it's just too important to get rid of Odumbo this time. (and yes I know that's the argument many use every election)
 
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