Overcoming Political Parties

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As you are walking down the streets of New York, your feet are sliding across the torn up cement and broken glass is shattered all over the ground. People are bumping into you on all sides as you walk down the road like a herd of cattle, just following the people around you. Smoke thickens the air as the skyscrapers drop to the ground. People are yelling and screaming all around you. Chaos, nothing but chaos. This will be the world that we will live in if the United States government does not begin to solve the challenges that we face as a country. The strength of the media, immigration, terrorism, and the constant arguing of the political parties will be the fall of the United States of America. The United States government is not doing anything …show more content…
They are too busy arguing whether the republicans or democrats have better ideas. In the election every year they hold the presidential debate. Here the democrats and the republicans just sit and argue about which party is better. They just bash on the other party instead of expressing their ideas and persuading people why their ideas will be the best for our country. The two parties do not listen to each other or work together to try and solve many of these challenges that America faces. This year, while Ted Cruz was still in the presidential election, he argued that Donald Trump would be a horrible president, but then after he was out of the presidential race he said that he would support Donald Trump if he was elected president. He would support Donald Trump just because they are a part of the same political party. Many Americans today vote for a candidate just because of the party they are a part of even if they don 't know the ideas and the plans of this politician. If the United States government does not stop arguing and start finding solutions to the challenges we face than the United States of America will just become another memory that fades away through

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