In American politics, there seem to be 4 major political camps. There are principled conservatives, who go by the belief that the government that maximizes individual freedom is the best government. There is some disagreement about how this is to be achieved within this camp, for example Alan Keyes believes that some of our wars in the middle east are necessary to prevent the threat terrorism poses to personal freedom, and Ron Paul believes that the cost of those wars takes away from personal freedom. But both men would agree with the underlying principle. And if you have not figured it out, this is the camp that I'm basically in.
The second political camp are the principled liberals. They truly believe that all people are basically equal in virtue and worth. Any differences that cause some people to be criminals and others to be saints is simple the result of a bad societal structure. This crowd also believe in personal freedom, but only secondary to their beliefs in equality. They generally can't see the inherent contradictions in the methods used to try and achieve equality and their desire for freedom.
Then there are moderates. Moderates do not have any principles for their beliefs, or if they do they don't actually make connections with them and with politicians or policies that they support. These are the people who will think that the republicans have been in power long enough, now its time to vote for a democrat or vice versa. They for the most part don't follow politics too closely, and find political fights distasteful. They also make up majority of the American public (I don't have any poll numbers to back this up, I'm just going off of general observation), and mercifully don't vote that often.
The fourth political camp that makes up a very small minority of the population, but a very large majority of politicians is the political ruling class camp. These people believe they have a right to try and mold the world to make it a better place. They absolutely believe that the ends justify the means. They will do whatever they think that it takes in order to move the world in the direction that those most elite among us believe it should go. Their general belief is that in order to put an end to war and economic turmoil and all the bad things that are, that they must unify the world under a single government. Like all the other camps the individuals in this camp may differ on specific points, for example Obama believes that the U.S.A.'s dominance and independence on the world stage is the greatest obstacle to one world government, but George W. Bush believed that the backward governments in the Middle East was the biggest obstacle, or at least those were the biggest obstacles that they could address at this point in time. They also seem to vary on the extent that they are willing to let the masses suffer to reach their ends. In the case of communist dictators, they murdered millions of their own people in an attempt to get around the problems human nature causes to their visions of what society should look like. In the case of American leaders I like to think that they are on the opposite end of the scale, but the truth is that they don't have enough power over the people to prove what their true character is one way or the other.
It is the presents of this political camp that keeps things from getting done. We elect politicians thinking that they fall into camp one or camp two, but in reality they are in the fourth camp. This is why after 6 years of Republican control of the House, Senate, Presidency, and a favorable Supreme Court, all of the conservative goals such as shrinking government spending and ending the slaughter of children (more commonly referred to with the euphemism abortion) seem just as far off as they ever have. It also explains Barack Obama's broken promises, such as ending the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, closing Guantanamo Bay, having CNN record all health care deliberations, letting the American people review bills before he passes them, and on and on the list goes. All of that is theater designed to win votes so that when in power he can push his real agenda. The most striking proof of this fact is the war in Libya. George Bush's wars helped push the globalist agendas, and as such are supported by globalists. If Barack Obama believed even one of the reasons that he stated for opposing the war in Iraq, he would also oppose the war in Libya on the same grounds. The only difference seems to be that in the war in Libya instead of fighting against Al-Qaeda we are now fighting along side them. But it's still all about transforming the Middle East to make it more accepting of the coming one world government.
So your responsibility as a voter is to really do your home work and find out if a candidate is truly in your camp, or in the fourth camp and simply posturing in order to get your vote.
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