Originally posted by Sheeper
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
So he thought it was in his political interest to endorse Obama and is now seeing that the way things are going it might be in his best interest to distance himself and come back to his core audience....Ha, bs!!! He can go and be a democrat now, he can't be taken serious amongst conservatives and most republicans anymore. What is the point of classifying yourself as a Republican if you can support someone that is the polar opposite of your belief system. How do you define trust, because to me that makes him untrustworthy. If all it takes is skin color to abandon your principles then your a shallow human being. And even if it was just him drinking the koolaid then he still abandoned his principles and for what exactly, to follow a fool. Hmmmph Powell who?
[edit on 4-7-2009 by Sheeper]
I agree primarily with most of what you have to say. Powell rose to prominence first on the National and World Stage as neither a Democrat or Republican but as first and foremost a Soldier.
Becoming a Joint Cheif of Staff is a selection made not on Political party and in fact throughout Powell's rise in the Military he pretty much stayed an "independent".
When he distinquished himself so spectacuarly and photogenically during the 1st Gulf War both the Democrats and the Republicance woed him and the Republicans at the time were actually a little surprised that they managed to get him into the Republican party.
Neocons who want to legislate morality and mantain an empire especially in the Middle East with a Christian Zionist Agenda of considering Israel, America's unofficial 51st State are hardly Republicans but zealots and extremists.
Regan Democrats saw a huge advantage in electing him to a second term.
Parties should have platforms that are centrist, and not extreme, and the extreme ellements of the Republican party who have abandoned and ignored a lot of it's primary tenants have become for the most part as bad and as liberal in some regards as tax and spend democrats.
Democrats who a majority of are gravitating so far to the left that they want to legislate morality not in Christian terms so much like the Neocons do but in Politically Correct terms and regulate all facets of life to not just enforce a racial and sexual equality but an economic of one of primarily everyone having to be poor to pay for all their social engineering have become socialists.
The Neocons are so far to the right, and most of the Democrats are so far to the left, they have in many ways circumnavigated the spectrum and could practically reach out and touch each other from the extreme destinations they have each taken their parties too.
If they each took one half more step one to the right, and one to the left they would be joined...if they actually reversed to meet back in the middle where they first split it would be a heck of a long trip, and that's what makes them seem far apart, but on the "Dark Side of the Moon" where both these prominent elements of both parties reside, they are actually within hugging distance of each other, and in fact do, which is why our two party system is really a one party system, with each purposefully creating problems, that each purposefully create false solutions to that just enable both to keep driving what looks like a different agenda, but is really the same agenda forward.
Everyone who is human should live and govern themselves by a 'code' that means something to them as far as their real values...no two political parties, or the extreme ellements that take them over and propel them, are ever going to come close to sharing the "codes" that most Americans live out their day to day lives on, and we really should stop pretending either partry can be a solution or can speak or do justice to or for hundreds and hundreds of millions Americans who just don't share their extreme values to the right or the left once these people gain offices and majorities.
The system is broke, the parties are broke, the country is broke, and being married to a party, either party, who are both responsible for this debacle we are in and facing is foolish in my humble oppinion.
Neither are the solution.
Both are the problem.
