Diogenes said:
Your key phrase is "have the candidates offer real solutions to the problem" and that is the core problem of the Democrats.
Exactly, but personally I think the core problem is manifest in factions, period, not just in the Democratic party, because I describe a problem and the Republican Party in Congress obviously has no solution.
Say “I have a problem” to a certain shrub and they say “contact a lawyer,” and it does not register in the Republican’s brain that I need a law enforcer, or a lawmaker, and I do not want a damn stinking lawyer that will take weeks to get a solution.
Warning: the following between brackets is a gratuitous waste of time just in case a Republican lawmaker happens upon this post, and it is not to be considered a part of the post, but is to be considered a brain fart:
{Marriage is supposed to be until death. Why bother if it is not. A spouse can legally hide a debt from their spouse, a debt that I have irrefutably proven in this topic that the usurers (VISA) think is funny, and the usurers face no penalty for their gamble, but by law the unknowing spouse faces all the penalties for their gamble, for a joint account can have a garnishment placed on it with the aggrieved spouse having no rights except to divorce and get a lawyer. That is a problem that can be fixed by requiring the usurers to require both spouses acknowledge the debt in each month‘s statement, with failure to get acknowledgements stopping further debt. Married people should not be allowed to get a new credit card without the approval of the other spouse, or joint assets should not be allowed to have a garnishment placed on them. By law deprive the usurers of the power to attack joint accounts or joint assets unless in a court of law, where the debtors must be present to face their accusers, and force the usurers to prove that both spouses acknowledged and approved of all the debts at the time they were acquired. Lawyers are not a fast as law enforcement, and a garnishment that can be done without knowledge of the accused can take bread and medicine out of the mouth of the innocent and devastate a family. The gamble should be equal! If I didn’t know about the debt, and the usurers think it is funny, to be fair, the usurers should have to eat the debt, if I do not want to eat the debt. One spouse can acquire a massive debt behind the back of the other, with the law on the side of the usurers. That is a problem that needs a law to protect the family, and law enforcement that does not harm the family, as I do not want to harm a family, and this should not be a problem that needs a lawyer. How dare the Republicans claim they are for families, they are in power, and they are for usurers that prey upon families, and therefore All Republicans in Congress must be LIARS! ALL Republicans in Congress are LIARS! Feel free to prove me wrong by actually fixing a problem.}
Only a candidate can have a solution to the problems. Parties can not have a solution to the problems. Neither party can have a solution to the specific problems, unless we accept all solutions and drink the Kool-Aid.
Kandahar wants us to withdraw from Iraq while we still have a UN mandate in Resolution 1511 to restore international peace and security to Iraq, and for obvious reasons the Iraq war should not be a party issue!
Kandahar wants to “Protect abortion rights” which is fine by me, but if a party adopts that platform, when it is really a presidential or senatorial issue, votes will be lost unnecessarily, when candidates with more individualistic platforms might have been elected to the House of Representatives so as to address the greater number of issues. Abortion is the kind of issue that should not be on a party platform. We have many problems that need solving, but with this in your face “take it all or leave it” proposition we will still have the majority of the problems.
We need Winnie the Pooh to have a problem getting honey, and each other character in his world also has some kind of a legitimate problem, and there are candidates that have actual solutions to the individual problems, but the two party moulds that make candidates do not agree except on a few points, so fewer problems get fixed. Everyone gets cheap honey, because Winnie the Pooh is the main character, and only Winnie the Pooh eats honey.