The State of America Today George Washington ones said “However political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” This phrase defines the current state of politics in the United States. The two major political parties in this country, the Republican and the Democratic Party, have grown so much that instead of fighting for what is beneficial for the country, they only fight and defend the ideology of their parties. This country should have only one party and one party only, The United States of America Party. …show more content…
Recently, President Barak Obama, announced that, after more than fifty years of economic sanctions and diplomatic rupture between the governments of the United States and Cuba, relations between the two governments will be reestablished. For me, as a Cuban, these statements led to tremendous joy, first because someone finally noticed that the archaic measures did not have any effect on the government of the island but on his people, and secondly, this new decision would open new doors to American citizens, which by law could not visit the island and American investors who could not do business with Cuba. What was very interesting was that, the declarations of the president were succeeded by his detractors statements, in which, all members of the Republican Party criticized and argued against the decision of the president. For me it is difficult to believe that, among all Republicans, nobody found some value in the new