The American Dilemma: The Choice Between Crazy People and Spineless Cowards
For the average American, it seems like every two years they are faced with a dilemma, who to vote for? For the more politically involved Americans, it’s not a hard choice. They stay informed and have their minds made up by the time it comes to vote, but this is not the case for most Americans.
For many of us, the political landscape is extremely hard the navigate. It seems more and more that if you don’t have the right opinion that you are the devil incarnate. It doesn’t help that the parties seemed to have changed a dramatic degree as well.
If I described a party platform that promised to cut taxes for the middle class, put American workers first. Cut down on unnecessary bureaucratic spending, reduce the size of the federal government. Take on medical bureaucracy, and reform health care. Make tougher world trade legislation, reform welfare to make it a second chance, not a way of life, and secure our southern border. You’d probably think that I was describing the current GOP. I’m not, those some is for some of the key points of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential platform.
In the late 20th century and early 21st century, the GOP and the DNC were relatively similar. There were always the key differences like gun regulation, higher or lower taxes for major corporations and the wealthy, and whether or not healthcare was a right or a privilege. For the most part, though, both parties agreed on preserving American values, putting the average American first, and giving every citizen a chance at the American dream.
It seems that this is no longer the case. Nowadays the reality is that both sides see each other as deeply immoral. We are no longer Americans with simple differences of opinion, we are enemies in a battle for the future of the republic.
We could not be more polarized. One side stands for secure borders and the other calls for open borders. One side wants economic freedom, and one side calls for economic socialism. One is pro-gun and one is anti-gun, and this goes on and on. This division is being driven by radical tribalism on both sides.
The left is being driven further and further left by crazed woke progressive leftist, and the right doesn’t have any political willpower to stop them. The reason why is that the average republican politician is an unprincipled spineless coward that is more concerned about being re-elected than actually making change. Inevitably the right just gets slowly dragged further left.
So for the average American, the question is who do I vote for? One side doesn’t seem to represent Americans, the side pretends too, and neither really do at all. So what do moderate Americans do in a country where there doesn’t seem to be moderate choices?