Politics won’t do its job

By Jacob Wingard

Democracy has always been about making sure everyone has a voice; however, it is impossible to give the millions of people who live in the United States a voice.  

Instead, our system calls for representatives to speak for us in order to serve our best interests, but is the system following this anymore? 

Ninety percent of Americans do not believe so, according to statistics by former Senator David Boren. 

Watching the news on the current budget issues in America, I can see how, our partisan government is driving us straight into the ground.  Republicans and Democrats are bickering over the issues without regard for trying to fix them and more trying to make the other side look bad.  

Even finding an unbiased source on the matter is near impossible so by scouring several news sources.

Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, Associated press and several alternative news sources, I found more than a little vagueness and the absence of real thought of how to solve these issues.  

As the deadline looms for setting the budget, neither the democrats or the Republicans have thought to sit down and put aside their differences for the good of everyone.  Instead, we have to fight for electoral power and the right to say, we won this fight and thus are in the right.  

We've come almost full circle in our decision making processes, as back in medieval times they followed the doctrine of “might makes right.”  

Today, we use words and money to do battles on our own turf in a civil war that is causing more suffering than it is helping to fix; the divide between the democratic  and the republican parties is a thin one at best, with both sides having only a few differences that set them apart in theory.  

This is only in theory though, as from what I've seen of their ideas, practices and overall outlooks, they are only different in what they claim to advocate.  

Politics today is no longer about serving the best interests of society but rather serving the large companies and executives, that own most of this countries money.  

In doing so, what appears to be the majority of political figures have ceased conversing with members of the other party in order to ensure bigger slices of the preverbal money pie.  While this view may seem cynical, the increased amount of money being spent for political campaigns and the political action committees validates it to a degree.  

If action is taken soon, preferably within the next week, then our government faces a collapse.  The two parties  need to settle whatever difference has driven them so far apart and agree on doing something for a change, it is alright to debate and attempt to create a better environment for citizens to live in.  

It is not alright to create a system, so full of deadlock that it takes months or years for important decisions to be made.  Politics isn't some high school lunch room. You can't choose not to work with someone just because you don't agree with what they believe in.