We were just talking about this the other day and then along comes this post. This is one of the hardest mind-traps to get out of. There has been so much programming that “The Dems did this,” and “The Repubs are against that,” people actually fall into thinking that the parties are opposed to each other. It’s time to break the spell–there is only one party, the Uni-Party and they do not work for you.
Here’s a good article that breaks down how the parties actually work.
BLUF:
If you dislike one political party and/or its representatives, remember that those you support are just as corrupt, just as two-faced, just as self-centered, just as dishonest. Neither the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party are trustworthy. Nor are most of the individual politicians within those parties (although there are a few honorable exceptions). As the late, great H. L. Mencken put it:
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.