<p>Our bipartisan system is one of the suckiest things ever, because so much of it involves pandering to lobbyists and “constituents.” It’s all for votes, and nothing ever gets done right anymore.</p>
<p>Hahahahah Jesus did not found the Catholic Church!</p>
<p>Catholicism started up first. Then, around 1000, a schism started up. Christians in Western Europe, often less educated, would use icons as a form of reading in their worship, but more orthodox and educated people in the Byzantine Empire disagreed with this. The latter broke away and became Orthodox, which later split up further.</p>
<p>Then, in the mid-16th century, many people who had heard the ideas of previous theologians such as Wycliffe and Hus started believing that the Catholic Church was corrupt and too material oriented and distant from the people. Lutheranism started first, then various other groups such as Calvinism, Methodism, Anabaptism, and Baptists formed. Henry VIII split from to Catholic Church to get an annulment, and founded the Church of England - Anglicanism. Anglicanism (in America, Episcopalianism) was very similar to Catholicism, and some people wanted it to become more distant. Those people became the Puritans and Separatists, who came to Massachusetts. The Separatists were much stricter than the Puritans and established the first settlements in Massachusetts; today, we know those who came here as the Pilgrims. Puritanism split into many groups; among these were Congregationalism and Presbyterianism. Quakers, a much more tolerant group that was famous for opposition to slavery, religious and political freedom, belief in a mystical “inner light”, and fair dealing with Native Americans, later settled in various areas. From all of these groups there came even more sects.</p>
<p>Obviously, this brief explanation of the creation of Christian denominations ignores the delicate religious and political nuances which led to their creation, but it’s roughly what happened.</p>
<p>“Our bipartisan system is one of the suckiest things ever, because so much of it involves pandering to lobbyists and “constituents.” It’s all for votes, and nothing ever gets done right anymore.”</p>
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<li><p>Bipartisanship has nothing to do with pandering to lobbyists or constituents.</p></li>
<li><p>Constituents elect their representatives to represent them. If a congressman from a district full of car factories called for a minimum MPG rating on all cars, then the people he represents are betrayed.</p></li>
<li><p>Bipartisanship causes lots of problems, but lobbyism has nothing to do with it. Lobbyists support candidates on both sides.</p></li>
<li><p>What is the viable alternative to bipartisanship? I’m not saying it’s not a perfect system, but until you can come up with a better system, stop blaming everything on it. People naturally segregate themselves based on commonalities. We can’t change human nature, so what can we do?</p></li>
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<p>Bipartisanship is the best balance, which our founding fathers and freemasons knew would be the best political system. It was not like Great Britain, where the King and Aristocracy and Proletariat each shared power (obviously this is unequal, why give the King power equal to 90% of society?). Compare that too to a one party system such as China. Obviously a no-no. Then compare it to the super-multi-party system in Europe. Does Europe EVER Get anything done? They just sit and drink and eat cheese all day because their goverments have gone down the drain because they cant even KEEP a goverment together for more than 5 years, since each party makes a coalition and then it splinters when one party member forgets to walk to work one day and uses his car instead or something.</p>
<p>So thus, compared to all other alternatives, Bipartisanship is the best possible system. No radicals are allowed to hijack our country (ex. Hitler in 1933 in the multiparty system, when he had the largest ‘percentage’ of votes) and we get the most done, which is why we rule the world.</p>
<p>The accuracy and objectiveness of this thread is extremely questionable.</p>