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Politics & Bumper Stickers
April 8, 2005--I was driving down the road the other day and I noticed that the car in front of me had a bumper sticker that was most likely from the Clinton era. It said, "Don't blame me, I voted Republican." This caused me to have an epiphany about two-party politics.
While this country was still in its infancy, George Washington warned of forming a two-party system. "It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."
If a two-party system causes such grief, why do we use it? The answer is in the bumper sticker. The reason this country loves the two-party system is because it gives us someone to blame if things aren't going the way we want them to. Instead of working together to fix problems, or even working against each other to fix problems, we all just sit back and say "It's not my fault. I didn't vote for those idiots" or "I voted for that guy so I am sure that he's doing a good enough job." We are allowed to sit back and think "it's those idiot [enter the plural name of the opposing party here] that are ruining this country. Stupid [enter either conservatives or liberals here].
What are we to do? After a quick internet search I found the answer to all of our nation's problems, and once again it was all thanks to a bumper sticker:
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