It seems to me that there is an element of revenge emanating primarily (but not exclusively) from the Left. When they were out of power, they were frustrated at their inability to achieve their goals. That frustration is normal and natural and is also felt by the Right when they are not in power.

The difference seems to be that when the Left is in charge, they not only want to achieve the goals, but they also want to do so by inflicting the greatest amount of damage, pain and suffering on those who disagree with them. Its not about wining its about revenge and punishing those on the right. Punishment often takes the form of character and/or political assassination! Its not enough for them to prevail, they must do so using a scorched earth policy and taking no prisoners. Before anyone says that the Right attempted to do the same thing to Bill Clinton let me point out that it was Bill Clinton who did it to himself and he admits it! Read his book. It would be incorrect to assert that the Right does not engage in revenge, but if one looks across recent history one would likely see that revenge of this  nature emanates predominately from the Left and at a magnitude that far exceeds that from the  Right. But they both have their draw backs.

Additionally, politically members of both of the Major Parties in attempting to prevail have used the  premise that the best defense is an offense to the point that neither group is acting for the welfare or our Nation but solely to win power for themselves and their party. From my observations  the local, state and federal politicians are blind to the will of the people except at election time. When they will espouse what is popular to get elected. If they are up for re-election they will attempt to pass token legislation to make themselves  look good. When elected or re-elected they will continue to pander to special interests and ignore their constituents. They will continue to make getting re-elected their number one priority. Over all neither party has significantly altered the Tax and Spend mentality of government, nor have they honestly and properly addressed the pending disasters of Social Security and Medicare, let alone the other "entitlements."  They have ignored the Constitution by exceeding their Constitutional authority (i.e. Eminent Domain as one of many examples), aided and abetted by the Supreme Court. They refuse to properly control our borders or to take actions to enforce the laws of immigration.  You know the picture.


From all of this it is easy to conclude that the ideals of either the Left or the Right as embodied by each political party are in fact not the ideals of the general voting population. Further that the general voting public still tends to believe that each political party is in fact embracing the true ideals thought of as Left or Right. So they keep voting the same people into office expecting things to change. I believe it was Einstein who said that "Insanity is to do the same thing over and over, expecting different results." Conclusion: We are insane to think things will change by giving our support to either political party. Its time to change the system - I do not believe we will change the Two Party system any time in the foreseeable future. So lets try a new approach let vote in a president that is not a member of ANY party!  Vote for Joe Oliva -- check him out at his web site
joeolivaforpresident.org.  I refer to the status of anyone running for any office who is not a member of any political party as a member of the UnParty.  We need to vote for as many UnParty candidates running for any office as we can - considering their suitability to hold office of course.  As I see it, thats the only hope we have.