Political Righteousness

* So, someone is telling me I need to believe these old books that says there is one god, name Allah, and if I don’t, I am not going to heaven.  Further, I have lost all spiritual good. And, they think they are right, they are righteous about it.

"Salvation" in Islam refers to the eventual entrance to heaven. The word does not cover the possible entry to hellfire, or the different levels of hellfire and heaven. Islam teaches that people who die disbelieving in the God do not receive salvation. It also teaches that non-Muslims who die believing in the God but disbelieving in his message (Islam), are left to His will. Those who die believing in the “One God” and his message “Islam” receive salvation.[23] Narrated Anas that Muhammad said, Islam teaches that all righteous Christians, Jews, Sabaeans before the coming of Muhammad will enter Heaven but those who appeared after Muhammad must accept Islam.[24] "If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah), never will it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter He will be in the ranks of those who have lost (all spiritual good)." — Quran, sura 3 (Al Imran), ayat 85

Democrats believe among other things that  we should invest in education, social services, infrastructure, and  give immigrants in this country a path to citizenship.  They believe in taxing the rich more to pay for this agenda.  They are concerned with wealth inequality in this nation.   They prefer negotiating instead of using the military to impose our views on the world. But they believe in increasing military spending

Republicans believe we must balance the budget by making cuts in education, social services and require immigrants to go back to their country and get at the back of the line. believe in a strong military and imposing our values around the world. they don't believe in taxing more including the rich.   They believe in increasing military spending.

Neither Republicans or Democrats are willing to touch social security, medicare or the military to balance the budget.  Of course, the budget can not really be balanced without touching these programs. Neither is willing to make fundamental changes in the way we are taxed.  Neither believe in ending the war on drugs, or decriminalizing pot. Neither believe in bringing by our troops from the 50 odd countries that they are stationed in. Neither believe in outlawing PAC's controlled by the wealthy. Neither believe in doing away with the IRS, replacing the income tax with the carbon tax or national sales tax or flat tax, etc. Neither believe in encouraging a third party, or making it fair for a third party. Neither believe in Congress having the same retirement (social security) or medical plan as the people they represent. Neither believe in working with the other.

Both republicans and democrats are righteous about their views.  Their way is right and those that do not believe in their point of view are wrong.  They spend a lot of time pointing out the wrongs (sins) of the other side.

They say insanity if doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. So, we keeping voting for democrats or republicans and expecting a real change. So are we insane?

Plan B: Gary Johnson versus status quo with the Democrats or Republicans. Or, do you have another Plan B?