Quote Originally Posted by epxroot

A lot of you know that I don't trust our Government at all. I have never really trusted them for as long as I can remember, and what trust I did have for them left in my early twenties. I have plenty of reason why I don't trust them just like you have plenty of reason why you do, or, do not trust them.

I have a few questions that I have for you.

A. Do you really believe that these people who claim to care about us really care about us?
I do not believe that the majority of politicians care about our needs before their own; but at the same time I do believe a number of them want to create legislation and update old ones somewhat for our benefit. Overall as of late though I feel they're ignoring the fact that they should actually listen to what we want when deciding on a piece of legislation.

B. Why do you trust our Government?
All in all I love my country. It has obvious flaws in it but let's face it we're a very young nation. Look at other countries approximatley the same age as us

Mexico (1821)
Argentina (1810)
Chile (1810)
Columbia (1810)
Costa Rica (1821)
Haiti
El Salvador (1821)
Thailand (1776)

etc etc...

I can say with all certainty that Given our countries age we are leaps and bounds ahead of other nations that were birthed about the same time as us.

C. Do you believe these candidates will honestly bring any change?
I believe to bring about TRUE reform and change we need a restructure of the party system. Whether it's acknowledged or not; there is a pseudo monopoly going on. If we had dozens of parties with equal funding and limitations on how they can conduct themselves as a party then I feel we could make some progress. By evening out the playing field of the politicians they would be forced to work together in order to pass legislation.

However something like that would never happen because Congress would have to pass legislation to enforce this and there is no way that either republicans or democrats will risk giving up their power.