Nikov, it's not that I think the Democratic party has been doing much else but behave in an utterly spineless and unproductive matter. I don't like "my" party, either, and disagree with some of its ideals. But what I've seen of the Republican party during the past year or so honestly terrifies me. I feel like its most vocal and powerful proponents are cutting the country down at the knees.
It's not just the women's/gay rights/racism fiasco. It's not even cutting the corporate taxes. It's cutting taxes to privatize in a more expensive way, in clear conflicts of interest, just for the sake of decentralization in and of itself. It's the back room deals. It's all that terrible shit happening in Michigan, so that federal rights cede to state rights cede to corporate rights, rather than individual rights.
It's the creation of new classes of ultra-rich people in order to keep the government from giving money to people who are, more and more, finding themselves in desperate need of it. It's about trying trickle-down, yet again, but cutting education budgets.
My ideal world would have very little government because it wouldn't be necessary. People would be excellent to each other and negotiate things on their own. People could rely on friends for help, on educated neighbors, on the bounties of mother nature. They would be open-minded and trusting, because they could afford to be.
But these are not those times, and the actions the Republican party has, as a whole, been taken of late seem to be causing far more problems than otherwise.