The bottom line is that legitimate political parties are created upon principled ideals, desires, goals, platforms, compromise, unification, and ultimately for the benefit of the people. This would seem to indicate that a country formulated upon a Constitution as principled as that of the United States, would have no real need for political parties, as this is not only a union of States, joined together; but also represents a republic so created of, for, and by the people. Yet, soon after the ratification of that Constitution, political factions were formed, and in the present day, these political parties are integral to today's policies so being enacted or rejected.
It would be one thing if those present day political parties were principled, but the evidence seems to imply the very opposite. Today's political parties seem to be on one level completely unprincipled, and pretty much beholden to those that are the power brokers of their actuation, of which the objective of these parties appears to be deception, not just in regards to trickery meant to fool the opposing party, but outright deception to the very people that are members of it. That is to say, while there are many gifted politicians that do a wonderful job in speaking and even believing in what they say, the actual effect or subsequent change, for the general core people of those political parties seems pretty disappointing, because the real benefits of what these political parties achieve appear to be mostly beneficial to only those that are well positioned, as compared to the people in whole, who seem to consistently get far less then what they should.
Then again, even when the people do appear to get what they are expecting to get, the receiving of such, has a lot more to do with the power plays so made behind the scenes that benefits those that are part of the winning side, to the detriment of those that are on the losing side; of which, principled actions based on justice, fairness, fair play, and the doing of the right thing, pretty much evaporates as an irrelevancy. When the political game is played in a manner in which the objective is to win at any cost, then it is a given, that the cost will be the ethics of party principles, as well as the dismissal of the needs of the regular people that aren't considered to be a constituency that actually gets represented.
In point of fact, as the Constitution is the highest law of this land, then it so follows that the principles of each political party, should be the guiding light of those parties, and to the degree that those principles are seen as mere window dressing, then one can expect that the result of political involvement by those parties in regards to justice, legislation, and the execution of rules and regulation to function primarily instead as a very nice looking façade, of which the end result so obscured to the general public is typically a grand disservice to those that are essentially its minions as well as all those on the losing side.
Our governance is supposed to be a representative republic, but the reality is that those representatives don't answer to the people, nor do they answer to the principles of their respective party, but rather they often act in concert with those that are in their ear, playing that bewitching tune that keeps them in line, often quite willingly.The bottom line is that legitimate political parties are created upon principled ideals, desires, goals, platforms, compromise, unification, and ultimately for the benefit of the people. This would seem to indicate that a country formulated upon a Constitution as principled as that of the United States, would have no real need for political parties, as this is not only a union of States, joined together; but also represents a republic so created of, for, and by the people. Yet, soon after the ratification of that Constitution, political factions were formed, and in the present day, these political parties are integral to today's policies so being enacted or rejected.
It would be one thing if those present day political parties were principled, but the evidence seems to imply the very opposite. Today's political parties seem to be on one level completely unprincipled, and pretty much beholden to those that are the power brokers of their actuation, of which the objective of these parties appears to be deception, not just in regards to trickery meant to fool the opposing party, but outright deception to the very people that are members of it. That is to say, while there are many gifted politicians that do a wonderful job in speaking and even believing in what they say, the actual effect or subsequent change, for the general core people of those political parties seems pretty disappointing, because the real benefits of what these political parties achieve appear to be mostly beneficial to only those that are well positioned, as compared to the people in whole, who seem to consistently get far less then what they should.
Then again, even when the people do appear to get what they are expecting to get, the receiving of such, has a lot more to do with the power plays so made behind the scenes that benefits those that are part of the winning side, to the detriment of those that are on the losing side; of which, principled actions based on justice, fairness, fair play, and the doing of the right thing, pretty much evaporates as an irrelevancy. When the political game is played in a manner in which the objective is to win at any cost, then it is a given, that the cost will be the ethics of party principles, as well as the dismissal of the needs of the regular people that aren't considered to be a constituency that actually gets represented.
In point of fact, as the Constitution is the highest law of this land, then it so follows that the principles of each political party, should be the guiding light of those parties, and to the degree that those principles are seen as mere window dressing, then one can expect that the result of political involvement by those parties in regards to justice, legislation, and the execution of rules and regulation to function primarily instead as a very nice looking façade, of which the end result so obscured to the general public is typically a grand disservice to those that are essentially its minions as well as all those on the losing side.
Our governance is supposed to be a representative republic, but the reality is that those representatives don't answer to the people, nor do they answer to the principles of their respective party, but rather they often act in concert with those that are in their ear, playing that bewitching tune that keeps them in line, often quite willingly.