Saturday, June 28, 2014

'Real adversity' between Parties should not exist in a Democracy.

'Real' adversity has real 'oppositional components' as distinguished from different 'points of view' about the same matter. A different 'point of view' merely reflects different ways to accomplish the same thing. If the 'end goal' in a Democracy is to 'govern' the People in a 'democratic manner', the 'different point of view' approach, is still within the 'general parameters' of Democracy. If a political Party opposes 'all political activity', on the simplistic basis that 'Government', is something 'free people' do not need, that is a dangerous position for any Party ideology. That is more a position of opposing a Party ideology by some adversarial Party. The goal in such approaches is merely to render the opposing party inefficient, or to eliminate it by adversarial methods, instead of 'democratic electoral methods'. That's the whole problematic with 'Party ideology', and so-called, "party loyalty". Party ideologies create 'oppositional components' that are harmful, to a 'general concept of Democracy'. The reason for that is that Parties find themselves 'opposing' each other instead of working out the 'methodology' by which some 'one democratic goal' can be achieved. Can any individual sue the Supreme Court because s/he disagrees with its decision? Can any individual sue the President because s/he disagrees with what he does? Can any individual sue the Congressman because s/he disagrees with what s/he does? Try it and see where it gets you. That's called a 'political question', not a 'case' or 'controversy'. The Courts, in general, and the Supreme Court will not decide a 'political question'. Obviously, because the irony of the situation is that the Supreme Court is also made up of members of 'different Parties', 'different ideologies', and are also 'Party loyalists'. You've heard of 'packing the Courts'; well that's a common practice, and that's good-old Party 'adversity' at work. There's nothing wrong with 'differences', but when they are approached from an adversarial, ideological, basis, it can destroy Democracy. Everyone is different from everyone else, but we don't have to have a 'real' fight over it. How disappointing, I thought even children knew that.

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