When did politics turn into a blood sport?

When has politics ever been any different?

Ummm....it's always been a blood sport. Sense the beginning of this country. Sense the two party system was started it has been "us against them" mentality. As for who gets to run....well their has always been an "good old boys club" in both camps. yes I find it disturbing. The defination of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and exspecting a different results. Well that is exactly what we do. We keep voting in the same people over and over again no matter what they do. ANd we vote in the same kind of person over and over again. We unforunately are getting the government we deserve. People are usually too stuck in party lines to vote for the best person or vote a bad person out. They just vote their party. Or they vote a straight ticket without getting know who they just voted in. Which means a lot of shady jerks get into office and stay there. They behave badly and we still vote them back in. WHich proves to them that htey can do what htey want and still keep their jobs. To change this you will have to get the mass majority of AMericans to vote on merit not party. You would have to get the mass majority of Americans to write and call their elected officials about bills that were up for vote. To get these people to behave you have to just about hold their feet to the fire. They will not do their jobs unless we make them. They have proven that. IT is just most people are just too busy to hold their elected officials accountable on a daily bases and call them on their BS. THey know it and use it their advantage.

Hehe, my school is located by the Battle of the Bulge! I think it's a part of Valley Forge Military College? I'm not sure, I've never went to investigate it. Anyway, that is just the nature of politics... and a two party system. Not that 3+ party systems are much better. Welcome to the imperfections of life.