<p>Do you trust the government?</p>
<p>you need to get down on both knees to ask that question...</p>
<p>'Nuff said. ^</p>
<p>Honestly? Not right now. I feel like we need to be able to elect officials we tust so we wion't doubt them when decisions have to be made, but it's hard to trust the elected when they have speech writers telling them what to say and publicists protecting them. I just don't buy any of it. And on top of that, since I haven't been able to vote yet, I have no reason to support any past officials.</p>
<p>"...but it's hard to trust the elected when they have speech writers telling them what to say and publicists protecting them. I just don't buy any of it."</p>
<p>No. It's hard to elect someone who will make good decisions in a populist democracy, simply because the general electorate does not have the slightest understanding of the complexities and nature of the biggest political decisions, or even which ones are the truly important ones.</p>
<p>How can you blame an official for going against his/her word, when that word had to be given to be elected in the first place? Most voters want someone who is like them and thinks like them regarding tough decisions such as foreign aid, military spending and controversial legislation. Unfortunately, that means electing someone who is either lying or has no real understanding of those issues. Which would you rather have?</p>
<p>Well, Aze, most people would want someone who thinks like them in regards to those issues just because most of us believe our decisions would be the right decisions. I understand that this means there's the chance that the conservative down the street might get his way and have someone who's views I don't agree with elcted, but I think that's a much better alternative to letting an elite few run the show and make the choices. Yes, in principle that makes sense, but the in real life that gets messy. I think the best election situation is one in which the politician can just lay out all of his/her viewpoints for all of us to see, without the embelishments of the seasoned english major form Yale, so that we can all make an accurate decision. I don't think that a politicians background is all that imoportant- I'm more concerned with how they think than whether or not they know how to control the tempo of their voice or choose to wear american flag pins. When I vote this fall, I'm going to look at their voting records and their explanations on why they made those choices- not a bunch of rhetoric.</p>
<p>I don't trust the government regardless of who is in power when we have entities such as the CIA and NSA, who both have overstepped their boundaries and, while above the law, stalk and murder American citizens for voicing their opinions.</p>
<p>Not really..</p>
<p>Its unpatriotic to trust the government. Its actually very harmful for people to trust their government, just look at history and see what happens when people trust there government and by that give up liberty for temporary security from a Leviathan, it never ends well. Many of the founding fathers warned us never to trust government, if you read the federalist papers.</p>
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<p>Educate yourself, fool. This thread isn't for the brainwashed. </p>
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<p>Kind of like the Patriot Act.</p>
<p>Yep just like it, we gave up civil liberties because we were scared, but if people were smarter that would never happen and we would know that giving away liberties is only to tale advantage of you.</p>
<p>There are so many similarities in today's America as there were in Hitlers time or all the fascists before that.</p>
<p>if you are interested Read some stuff by Naomi Wolf </p>
<p>Such as this Naomi</a> Wolf: Fascist America, in 10 easy steps | World news | The Guardian</p>
<p>Can I ask one simple question?</p>
<p>Okay. To make it as simple as possible, people hate Bush because of the way he's been running things, and because he lied to his people, correct? Well, why does McCain have so many supporters if it's painfully clear that he shares the exact same views as the current administration?
If he is just as bad, and will do nothing to change what the current administration has done, then why is he so popular? and why will he most probably win the race?</p>
<p>thank you.</p>
<p>Well, that depends on what you mean by "trust." I can always trust the government to act upon the interests of whichever group elected it. And no, I'm not talking about blue-collar/white-collar, black, hispanic, white, women, etc. groups. I mean the companies/individuals/special interest groups that subsidized the election and made the public believe that it wanted to elect candidate x for reasons y, which are usually either untrue, irrelevant (like most social issues), or advantageous to the individuals in question (those who subsidized the election in the first place).</p>
<p>NotAmbidextrous, who says they hate bush, a poll, you cant necessarily go by that, as they are always less than accurate.</p>
<p>Im sure the bible belt right would walk with bush into the gates of hell, and well they make up a good percent of the country.</p>
<p>Alot will also vote for McCain as there is no conservative choice and a moderate neo-con is as close as they can get. </p>
<p>Americans in General tend to be more conservative and Libertarian than Liberal and in this election and in the last you simply have 2 liberals running and people need to pick which candidate will keep the country alive the longest, and according to this, it looks like McCain.
2008</a> Presidential Candidate Spending Analyses</p>