There is no Democracy, there is no Republic; we have buffoons within our congress and that includes Republicans and Democrats. The Republicans aren’t slightly better, nor are the Democrats. With in both parties you have the trampling of our own Constitution and Bill of Rights. In order to take our nation into the right path, we as a nation have to pay attention to our local, state and federal representatives. The fact that congress just received another increase in salary should enrage you.

Grayson amendment didn’t go as far as the bill proposed by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) that we looked at last week. Grayson’s effort prohibited the Department of Defense’s 1033 program from transferring “aircraft (including unmanned aerial vehicles), armored vehicles, grenade launchers, silencers, toxicological agents (including chemical agents, biological agents, and associated equipment), launch vehicles, guided missiles, ballistic missiles, rockets, torpedoes, bombs, mines, or nuclear weapons” to local cops. (Very few of whom have much need for nukes.)

Article by Philip Bump

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/18/the-house-voted-not-to-demilitarize-cops-just-two-months-ago-will-it-be-different-after-ferguson/

Let us take a look at how the vote went: (Taken by the House on June 19. It failed, 62 to 355)

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 329

(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
H R 4870      RECORDED VOTE      19-Jun-2014      10:56 PM
AUTHOR(S):  Grayson of Florida Amendment
QUESTION:  On Agreeing to the Amendment

—- AYES    62 —

—- NOES    355 —

—- NOT VOTING    14 —

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll329.xml

I beg you to visit house.gov on a constant basis, so you can see for yourself. Do not be an ideologue; if you believe Republicans are more patriotic and are for the people, watching their voting record will dispel that myth. The Republicans who care about the American public are in the minority. If you believe Democrats are the heroes of liberty and liberalism, look at their record and you will see that is a lie. Just like Republicans, the ones who are for the American public, are in the ‘Minority’.

liberalism, political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics. Liberals typically believe that government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others; but they also recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty. As the revolutionary American pamphleteer Thomas Paine expressed it in “Common Sense” (1776), government is at best “a necessary evil.” Laws, judges, and police are needed to secure the individual’s life and liberty, but their coercive power may also be turned against him. The problem, then, is to devise a system that gives government the power necessary to protect individual liberty but also prevents those who govern from abusing that power.

The problem is compounded when one asks whether this is all that government can or should do on behalf of individual freedom. Some liberals—the so-called neoclassical liberals, or libertarians—answer that it is. Since the late 19th century, however, most liberals have insisted that the powers of government can promote as well as protect the freedom of the individual. According to modern liberalism, the chief task of government is to remove obstacles that prevent individuals from living freely or from … (200 of 8,195 words)

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/339173/liberalism

This is what you would call a classical Liberal; you still have people in the U.S that embody the definition of Liberalism. You have ‘Some’ Republicans, Libertarians, Democrats, Independent, etc who understand that, but sadly the majority in congress do not.

conservatism, political doctrine that emphasizes the value of traditional institutions and practices.

Conservatism is a preference for the historically inherited rather than the abstract and ideal. This preference has traditionally rested on an organic conception of society—that is, on the belief that society is not merely a loose collection of individuals but a living organism comprising closely connected, interdependent members. Conservatives thus favour institutions and practices that have evolved gradually and are manifestations of continuity and stability. Government’s responsibility is to be the servant, not the master, of existing ways of life, and politicians must therefore resist the temptation to transform society and politics. This suspicion of government activism distinguishes conservatism not only from radical forms of political thought but also from liberalism, which is a modernizing, antitraditionalist movement dedicated to correcting the evils and abuses resulting from the misuse of social and political power. In The Devil’s Dictionary (1906), the American writerAmbrose Bierce cynically (but not inappropriately) defined the conservative as “a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.” Conservatism must also be distinguished from the reactionary outlook, which favours the restoration of … (200 of 7,953 words)

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/133435/conservatism

The same can be said for Conservatism; when done right, being able to have traditions, while evolving and correcting errors with Liberalism can give us a balance society. Where rule of law prevails, but rule of law that doesn’t go against the Constitution or Bill of Rights.

That means you sometimes have to defend things you personally go against for the right of the individual. A church that doesn’t allow homosexuality in their doctrine can exclude homosexuals within the church, ‘But’ Gay Americans can have their own interpretation of marriage. Meaning they can get married and live their own life the way they see fit. The problem is everyone is trying to police the actions of others. My rights end where yours begin.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.”

I know what the U.S, American can become; there is so much potential that we have yet to reach, but we can do it.

So, what do you guys think is the right course of action?