It seems as though the United States of America is beginning to live up to its purpose, more than 200 years since the inaugural of the first president in 1789. Now, the two parties, though evolved, have always highlighted significant differences in approaches to national challenges. The two parties serve admirable purpose in preventing undue ideological control of U.S. policies by any particular political party.
Notably, throughout the years, the presidency has been treated as a trophy and the president as a pawn by the political parties, Democrats and Republicans. What has been witnessed in American politics is the rancorous environment whereby there's a seemingly unwillingness of leaders to focus beyond party interests and rather more on the interests of the nation. Indeed it has affected the presidency and its occupant at any given time. The state of affairs has often constrained the president from acting responsibly in best of nation to move US forward.
It's time to have an Independent President who demonstrates personal integrity through pragmatism and understanding the responsibility of having...
Freedom
Freedom from Politics Being principled not partisan
Freedom from Family Being principled not personal
Freedom from Race Promoting principles not people
Freedom from the Past Promoting precedents base on principles not patterns
"Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes." --- Mark Twain
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The president often must make decisions that may cause the progressive left to be despondently blue and the conservative right to be fiery red. In the last 3 years we have witnessed many decisions of President Obama actually infuriating the ideologues on the right and the left. When President George Bush addressed federal funding of stem cell research, his decision also was not fully acceptable to the ideologues on the right and the left. President Clinton has been called "the best Republican president we’ve had in a while” due to his pragmatic policy record i.e. 'he’s for free trade, he’s for globalization, he was for welfare reform, fiscal restraint'. Ronald Reagan also had policy stances that were unpopular with progressives and conservatives.
Throughout our history, there have been stark disagreements regarding policies, many are being echoed today. Yet, it really shows the strength of American Democracy when despite obvious fundamental differences in policy, the decisions of the U.S. President reflects a continuity of purpose. The aim of the president should be to act responsibly in best of nation to move US forward.
"Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off."--- Colin Powell
There is a growing group of individuals, voters who wants to move beyond Red vs. Blue typology. There's understanding that the nation's challenges require pragmatic sustainable solutions not just ideological dogma offered by partisans in both parties. There's understanding no party has all the answers, but solutions which require pragmatic collaboration and principled compromise. Pundits have asked, Can Independents reform America? Well, the answer is yes and indeed they have already brought forth significant changes to American politics.
There may be some cynics and scoffers but Independents are not asking for our leaders to deny their party labels but put them aside and put America first before party ideology.
Indeed "The pundits, the pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats." Let's be clear, Independents are declaring, "Enough of the political games and brinkmanship. These times that we're facing requires that we live up to America's purpose. Act in accordance with realization that "there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America."
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