Neither side helps our recovery by repeating the same mistakes. I don’t see a pathway to success for all Americans if we don’t get together to work on solutions, solutions which come from the people and from their representative government based on democratic principles.

Where we agree is that it must come from the people through a representative government, and both parties – more often than not – are more about themselves than they are the people.

Where it fails is that one party, although hardly perfect, espouses more of the Constitutional principles that should be the foundation of said solutions. For whatever faults the Republican party has (and by the way, I’m not in the Republican party), they still have the platform of less spending, less regulatory intrusion, 2nd and 10th Amendment powers, a strong defense, etc.

The other party chooses to stay in power by limiting the motivation of the individual to empower themselves regardless of gender or race, pigeon-hole constituents by fomenting divisive indentity politics, conform to a collective/progressive mindset (and have separate party caucuses for those purposes; not to mention all the various lobbying from the race-baiting industry (NAACP, LULAC, etc.)), increase taxes AND spending… you know the rest.

And regarding your comment on the Tea Party, maybe you should look into them a bit more instead of following what the demonizing narrative the left chooses to make people believe about them. In a nutshell, the TP is about responsible and limited government, getting back to the principles of the Constitution. What’s so “extreme” about that?

It will take another century to re-educate our children, grand children, great-grandchildren, etc., to bring this country back to self-reliance and distaste for government that was envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

Hopefully, I’ll see my Lord and Savior before then, but I weep for my children for what they’re going to have to endure.

(BTW, just for clarification, unlike those who voted for Duh-1, my Lord and Savior’s name is not Barack, Barry or any other associated such name.)

If POTUS would employe the same level of energy to fix the economy as he does to distributing the spoils of victory (honest graft), this nation has the human and natural resources necessary to avoid fiscal failure. If he chooses to continue digging deeper into debt, consent to this government will collapse. At that point the public will be looking for leadership and we risk mob rule if there is no organized group to pick up the pieces.
I believe it is essential for the Tea Party to continue supporting limited government that derives just powers from the consent of the governed. This leadership is as important today as when colonists rejected the arbitrary authority of kings and clerics some 236 years ago.

omapian:

On your first point, I think we can agree that we are still recovering from a Great Recession, therefore attention has to be paid to those who continue to suffer through no direct fault of their own. Our economic collapse is like the Sandy strike: we must then deal with these phenomena, focusing on the victims. This costs money, and takes time.

On the Tea Party, their problem, I believe, is their unwillingness to seek compromise solutions. There is a misunderstanding, I think, that compromising to a win necessarily means concurrently giving up on principle. After the compromise, the principles remain resident in each participant, on each side, to be brought to bear in some future negotiation. Most difficult to deal with of all issues is abortion, because their are two (or more) lives intimately entwined which need to be reconciled, an impossibility! We then retreat by attempting to set priorities on who the deciders should be.

And then we have the national debt and the fiscal cliff. Of course we must come together to deal with this too. The operative expression is: ‘come together’

How about just an ideology of everyone getting the some chance to succeed or fail, without the government being the puppetmaster. Cooperation? Like during the Obamacare fiasco? Like Obama signing executive orders left and right to bypass Congress? Why hasn’t the Senate proposed a budget to be voted on? How about Holder not hiding behind executive priviledge on Fast and Furious?

I agree on such an ideology, but we don’t have that, and Republicans don’t want it either. Your party favors trickle down tax policy and off-shoring of jobs and investments, which have not worked for the American middle class, but have worked for the wealthy class. I suspect you will agree that having a strong and vibrant middle class has been successful in the past. We can get back to that by investing more in education and in infrastructure, but this will take time, i.e., vision. This should not be a right versus left issue.

What you didn’t say is the ultimate truth – this country is deeply divided on ideology and will remain so. How either side can find compromise on obvious black and white issues is wasting time and both sides know it. Your guy won. Do your worst. Conservatives will just keep trying to put the country back on the right track.

Neither side helps our recovery by repeating the same mistakes. I don’t see a pathway to success for all Americans if we don’t get together to work on solutions, solutions which come from the people and from their representative government based on democratic principles.

Republicans are losing the demographic race. This, in my view, was the main campaign flaw this cycle by Republicans. George W Bush was concerned that his party was becoming less inclusive; you folks did not listen.

This is a straw man that keeps being repeated by the left. There is no demographic divide based on “becoming more/less inclusive”. There is “We promise this group/sex/race will get special treatment” and “We promise equality for all and don’t see group/sex/race”.
If Constitutional principles are shunned by one party and they win on that, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out where this country is headed.

It is also noteworthy that more money and well endowed Super PACs did not carry the day.

Not sure this is a relevant point, seeing as how both campaigns spent a billion plus each.

An ideology aimed at lifting all boats, and cooperation between the parties, is what this nation needs, starting today. Let us see if we can all step up to the task, finally.

How about just an ideology of everyone getting the some chance to succeed or fail, without the government being the puppetmaster. Cooperation? Like during the Obamacare fiasco? Like Obama signing executive orders left and right to bypass Congress? Why hasn’t the Senate proposed a budget to be voted on? How about Holder not hiding behind executive priviledge on Fast and Furious?

What you didn’t say is the ultimate truth – this country is deeply divided on ideology and will remain so. How either side can find compromise on obvious black and white issues is wasting time and both sides know it. Your guy won. Do your worst. Conservatives will just keep trying to put the country back on the right track.

Liberty isn’t just a pretty word for some of us.

Republicans are losing the demographic race. This, in my view, was the main campaign flaw this cycle by Republicans. George W Bush was concerned that his party was becoming less inclusive; you folks did not listen.

It is also noteworthy that more money and well endowed Super PACs did not carry the day.

An ideology aimed at lifting all boats, and cooperation between the parties, is what this nation needs, starting today. Let us see if we can all step up to the task, finally.