Originally Posted By: 123JoeSchmo
Originally Posted By: afsaneh77
Originally Posted By: Don Marco
Originally Posted By: afsaneh77
As for the term limits, if you know you are going to be elected twice at most, what keeps you loyal to your party?


Their loyalty shouldn't be to the party, it should be to the American people. They should do what is best for all.

Let's just assume that we never put in term limits for the President - who do you think would have been elected to a third term? Eisenhower likely defeats Kennedy and JFK waits until 1964 or even 1968? Do you think Reagan could have been the first to win all the states against Dukakis? Clinton against Bush (W) in 2000? Obama in 2016?


The problem is if members of congress decide to vote as they please, again parties mean nothing. But as I said, they mean something, at least to me. I don't like unpredictability in politics. I like to vote for a certain platform and know that the party I vote for would be loyal to those values. Those values are what I think is for the good of the people.


But there in itself lies the problem. If you think one particular branch of ideology is right then you get what we have today. The answer (except in extreme circumstances) usually lies somewhere in between the right and left. Something most people don't seem to understand


And that's why we review our positions every couple of years. We get to vote again and change our position. I never said a certain branch of ideology can be right all the time. But you certainly can identify with one, in a certain period of time, in a certain political environment. The important thing to me is that when I vote for a party, I get exactly what their platform claim should that party win the election.

"Fire cannot kill a dragon." -Daenerys Targaryen, Game of Thrones