The Future of Politics

[TevashSzat]

Well, all of the recent debates and media coverage over here in the US regarding the general election has gotten me thinking: Who in the world is really satisfied in any form with the current state of politics?

I am personally a Democrat and heavily disagree with many Republican thoughts, but there are so many Democrats that I would love to choke that in my view, it is more of a lesser of two evil choice for me. This would be too idealistic, but I would truly love a 3rd party candidate who wasn't afraid to speak the full truth and not try to put a spin on everything just for the poll numbers.

I suppose this brings up probably the point of the thread. I have several questions that I would love to hear the thoughts of others on:

1) What would be your ideal state of politics? I'm not talking about what ideology you would want to be dominant, but simply in what form your "perfect" politics would be

2) Why do you think that people have not tried to change the current system? Why do you think such attempts have failed?

3) How many people think that if repeated lying was grounds for the death penalty, politicians would be the first to be executed?

I'll elaborate on my views sometime else since its a bit late right now and I'm bound to make some huge logical error and start rambling on if I starting writing about it now