•12:46 PM
Since the last presidential election I have felt our elected officials seem to act unlike the people who were running for office and that we voted in. I know I am not alone in this sentiment. It also seems clear that republicans, although they vote together, don't support legislation that is in line with their party's platform and democracts don't vote in line with their party's platform either. The right feels the republicans have gone too far to the left and the left feels the democrats have gone too far to the right. Is this true?
When our elected officials meet in the center, this is not bad - rather it is the fruits of a republic. I feel that compromise is one of the keys of democracy. To get everything our way is not the fruits of democracy but the fruits of tyranny and a surrender of liberties. That is why we who love a republic must support outcomes that are not necessarily what we had hoped for.
With that said, I want to point out that I don't feel our elected officials have moved to the center in a spirit of compromise but have moved out of that straight line continuum to a new dimension: a dimension we could perhaps call the neocon.
It is no mystery that the neocons have very strong places in the Bush administration and have been behind several of the most influential policies of the past 6 years including No Child Left Behind, The Faith Based Initiative, and the Iraq War. These have been the children of the Bush Administration but passed by both democrats and republicans.
Democrats believed that the country would return to order when their party took over congress. However, it has not. Perhaps it will with a Democrat as President? Perhaps not. Click on the link below to read a very informative article about the possibility of a neocon Democrat. It shows that perhaps we have been thinking linearly with relation to the political spectrum when in fact we should be thinking in a different dimension. Please remember the Cato Institute is not affiliated with either the Republican or Democrat Parties.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8495
When our elected officials meet in the center, this is not bad - rather it is the fruits of a republic. I feel that compromise is one of the keys of democracy. To get everything our way is not the fruits of democracy but the fruits of tyranny and a surrender of liberties. That is why we who love a republic must support outcomes that are not necessarily what we had hoped for.
With that said, I want to point out that I don't feel our elected officials have moved to the center in a spirit of compromise but have moved out of that straight line continuum to a new dimension: a dimension we could perhaps call the neocon.
It is no mystery that the neocons have very strong places in the Bush administration and have been behind several of the most influential policies of the past 6 years including No Child Left Behind, The Faith Based Initiative, and the Iraq War. These have been the children of the Bush Administration but passed by both democrats and republicans.
Democrats believed that the country would return to order when their party took over congress. However, it has not. Perhaps it will with a Democrat as President? Perhaps not. Click on the link below to read a very informative article about the possibility of a neocon Democrat. It shows that perhaps we have been thinking linearly with relation to the political spectrum when in fact we should be thinking in a different dimension. Please remember the Cato Institute is not affiliated with either the Republican or Democrat Parties.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8495
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