This is war! Elect me because I will fight for you. If my opponent wins he/she will destroy America. I will fight all the way, to the bitter end! They are the enemy!
We need to take back America! Meaning what? That America is in control of enemy powers? That America is being held captive by the enemy? Or that America is under foreign control?
American politics is a battle ground. Take no prisoners—no comprising. We must not lose; they must not win—no middle ground, no give-and-take.
Apparently there are two very different Americas, red America and blue America; and it would seem that the two colors not only disagree as to political policies, practices, and principles, they actually despise each other.
Each side seems to believe that the other side is an evil despicable political enemy. Why else, for example, would the one side refuse to even consider (process) the other side’s Supreme Court nominee—until after the election year is over—distaste, distrust, dislike, disrespect and distain for the other side; that’s why.
It is a politics of hate and war and antagonism.
Even within one’s own party (with respect to either party) the primary strategy is one of creating antagonistic battle grounds—attack and destroy, take-down and take-out!
And our antagonistic electoral process seems to get worse each election season precisely because of its battlefield approach. Hostilities escalate until the enemy is absolutely destroyed or is so weakened that full surrender is the only option.
And so today we have a situation where a core constitutional procedure (the nomination of a Supreme Court Judge) is being absolutely blocked by one political party—which goes exactly against the Founding Fathers’ intentions; for, given the way they had setup the process, they had actually hoped to minimize the encroachment of raw political power-play into the nominating/selecting process of a Supreme Court Judge.
But here we are. Contrary to what they’d have us believe—such as saying that they believe that the American people should decide—it is not about highly held American principles and values. Rather, it’s raw political warfare. It’s a political battleground. It’s treating the other side as the enemy, holding out, aiming to win the war—where they hope the winner takes all—believing that they must/will win!
It seems that American politics is now nothing more than a naked grab for power and control, and the backing of money, to ensure full control is wielded and maintained for as long as possible. American voters are mad because instinctively we know that we are actually mere pawns in the political process. We sense that there are greater political forces pulling strings behind closed doors and that we’re simply being used. Politics is no longer about us, the American people. It’s as if we’re damned if we vote and we’re damned if we don’t vote. Either way, the American people lose.
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