Both sides do some equally bad things in my opinion. Since both parties usually feed off one another, both are guilty of the following.
1) Republicans unnecessarily want to have a large military and cause conflict around the world. We are not the world police. We have no threat that requires 11 aircraft carriers. How often do we use more than 3 in any conflict in the last 30+ years? Lets reduce the military and our spending as its not needed. Lets float like a butterfly and sting like a bee to make a point. We don't need to send in the hive. Democrats don't do much to change this. Obama wants to reduce the military spending but from 11 carriers to 10? Remove our troops from Iraq? What about Afghanistan and what about the potential conflict with Iran? Both parties are equally as stupid when it comes to foreign policy and our military.
2) Turn a blind eye towards domestic issues and point fingers at each other. Healthcare didn't quite work out, but Obama points the finger are republicans. Sure republicans are being jerks, but rather than working with them we have this stubborn atmosphere in the parties were if we compromise, we are "in bed with the enemy". Republicans and Democrats should not considers each other the enemy, but rather hurdles to overcome. Democrats do the same thing like the Wisconsin governor issue, and the Democrats leaving the state because they do not want to discuss the matter. All the while the people of this country deal with a deadlock and we make no progress in any direction. Both parties are equally guilty of doing this.
3) Both parties pass laws which restrict our rights, be it ban guns, or ban same sex unions. Patriot act, and domestic spying. Clinton started with warentless wiretaps, Bush created the patriot act. Both parties since keep pushing these agendas and are just as guilty as one another in limiting our freedoms as time goes on. We don't need a nanny state, we don't need to protect our security by terrorists with all that nonsense. Bad things happen. I could die today by a truck running me over, a coworker going postal, a terrorist denoating a bomb in a bus. We don't need the government to restrict us and "protect us" in the manner they are doing it that creates and breeds an atmosphere of fear. The more they restrict us, the chances of people going postal increases, the chances of domestic terrorism rising against the state and government which could put me in the crossfire. That is more dangerous than what some extremist muslims might do to me. Both parties are doing this.
4) Both are doing equally nothing to address the way our economy is structured. We are land of the free and home of the brave, but what about jobs? Both parties think the way to fix the economy is to spend tax payers dollars, and create jobs. But that just puts more burden on the tax payers (and middle class) which is going to shrink the middle class. Yet they pass laws like NAFTA, which eliminates increased revenue from outside countries to pay for goods transferred and places the burden on them, and not us, for economy. Both parties are doing nothing to address this.
5) Illegal Immigration and imigration policy.
6) Bailing out corporations, banks, automakers, whatever.
7) Jobs going to India, and minimium wage.
8) NASA, better yet, ignoring it.
9) Cost of schools.
10) Political correctness or mind control.
I could go on but I'm getting sick of typing. Good day.
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