Email the Tangled Angle:   [email protected] In this podcast, broad and sweeping generalizations will be made. Not picking on any one individual, broad & assuming statements will be made to make the point.  Democrats (D’)s vs. Republicans (R’s) and their ethics  & other differences. R’s respect the system and let a bill or the process play out. D’s skirt the system, and use it and game it for their own purposes, and mostly never in the interest of the citizens of our state. D’s run revenge bills to get rid of R’s, or sometimes even their own party members. R’s see government as a governmental & political process; D’s see it as a religion and life’s purpose & calling to right the wrongs of most everything. R’s usually come from the private sector; D’s usually come from the public, government sector. Does being elected change someone’s character?  The long and short of it is explained in this podcast.  One word summary: no.  Republican Party Platform Summarized: "The Republican platform seeks to strengthen the free market, lower taxes, and defund any programs it deems to be safety nets, handouts, or government-funded welfare. This approach is predicated upon the idea that a free market leads to higher levels of competition, which improves services for consumers and increases the rate of technological advance. The party also appears to be operating under the belief that concern over climate change is an expression of “extremism,” and that progressive concern over environmental issues is the true threat to our nation, as opposed to the effects of climate change itself." Democrat Party Platform Summarized:  “Democrats hate the free market, except when they benefit from it. As an example, when they use the cell phone, drink coffee, wear clothing, eat food, access the internet, watch movies, play internet games, or drive a car, which are in existence because of a free market and a capitalistic economy which allows access to these things, but otherwise they fight against it in all of their policies.  They want to dump more money into unaccountable government programs which they call safety nets. Our wonderful nation is worth preserving and the liberties and freedoms that our founding fathers so eloquently laid out in the United States Constitution have given us the most free, most prosperous nation that has ever existed on earth.  It's worth every minute you invest in getting involved to protect, preserve, and uphold these freedoms.  As Pres. Theodore Roosevelt said,  “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt To watch your state government in action, visit TV Washington at www.tvw.org To email your state representative, to watch floor action, or to comment on a bill, visit the WA State legislature at: leg.wa.gov :