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Do the political parties

Do the political parties accurately reflect the sentiment of the voters?

  • Very accurately of the Dems

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Yes pretty accurately of the Dems

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Not accurate of the Dems

    Votes: 13 81.3%

  • Very accurately of the Republicans

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes pretty accurately of the Republicans

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Not accurate of the Republicans

    Votes: 14 87.5%
  • Total voters
    16
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Do the political parties accurately reflect the sentiment of their voters?

In other words, do you think the Dems in Congress represent those that vote Democrat, and the R's in Congress represent those that vote Republican.

Yeah, yeah... there are some who go both ways... don't care... no position for you folks.

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what sentiment?
which voters?
which political party?
on what issue(s)?
 
haymarket said:
what sentiment?
which voters?
which political party?
on what issue(s)?
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In general. Over all. Big Picture.

Triangulation and micro-politics ist verboten.

Can't be that tough to offer an opinion?

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To offer such an opinion would render it meaningless without specifics and narrowing it down to where we are actually talking about something identifiable. Which what I was attempting to do with my questions.

Thank you for changing your OP to reflect that somewhat.

Allow me to ask you a question to better explain what you are looking for here and advance discussion. How would you go about measuring if political parties reflect the sentiments of the people that vote for their candidates? What rubric are you applying here?
 
They are both all talk. They say what we want to hear to get elected and then do whatever gets the reelected and still in power. We fall for it every time.
 
hallam said:
They are both all talk. They say what we want to hear to get elected and then do whatever gets the reelected and still in power. We fall for it every time.
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What are you doing to change this sad situation?
 
There's a nice amount of progressive, green, labor party candidates in maryland if you are interested
 
Z3n said:
There's a nice amount of progressive, green, labor party candidates in maryland if you are interested
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Yeah, definitely. I went to the booth with my girlfriend (she's quite a bit older) and took a gander at the options. Nothing I really "liked," and there is no "NotA" option, sadly.

Still, a third party beats voting for one of our one-party state's factions.
 
haymarket said:
What are you doing to change this sad situation?
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There can be no change because the American public likes what we have. I think it is sad but the public in all of its vocial distain wants this and so nothing I could do would change what we have. We have the lazest political system now for a reason.
 
They reflect the sentiment of the groups that hire them. I mean the ones that donate to them.

As to 3rd parties, it doesn't matter which party we put in power. The system itself is broken. It rewards the behavior we're witnessing. Artificial persons should be prevented from directly lobbying the govt and instead forced to lobby the electorate. This would give them a positive onus to educate the public instead of merely being encouraged to grease politicians.
 
haymarket said:
What are you doing to change this sad situation?
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I do not know what to do.
We need reform badly.
Maybe a truth in advertising bill, drawn up by concerned citizens.
And end to propaganda, lies, spin, second languages, small print, and wasted paperwork.
And, rather than this situation improving, it seems to be worse than ever.
 
zimmer said:
Do the political parties accurately reflect the sentiment of their voters?

In other words, do you think the Dems in Congress represent those that vote Democrat, and the R's in Congress represent those that vote Republican.

Yeah, yeah... there are some who go both ways... don't care... no position for you folks.

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No on both. They tell you what they think you want to hear for votes. If these were lifetime positions instead of 2-6 year terms they would be doing what ever the **** the wanted and molding the country to how they see fit.
 
No vote, choices too limited.
Possibly, democrats, republicans are a thing of the past, and we will have, as replacements liberals and conservatives, and branches from both.
As people tend not to listen and there are so many one-way conversations.
That both the Scarecrow and the Earthworm are "independents".....when one is socialist and the other the exact opposite....
 
I think both parties talk about what their voters would like. They use rhetoric which is comforting and say they will be for this or that, and the this or that is nominally within some broad definition of "conservative" or "liberal". However, in action, they are both for the people who gave them a lot of money, they are both beholden to large corporate interest, the expansion of their power, and whatever it is that influences their checkbook. The things they say to sound "conservative" or "liberal" in order to get elected are just empty words to make it seem like there are still two sides, when in fact we have a single party system.
 
Every 4 years we get to choose who doesn't represent us. Maybe it has something to do with us getting candidates from the same rich elite, then pumping them pull of wages and making it ridiculously easy for them to take mountains upon mountains of campaign contributions from more elites that influence their policy making.

Policy rarely cares for public opinion (Republicans and Democrats alike say they don't care about polls).
 
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