In the United States the Government races are run primarily by two parties. Democrats, a liberal party, and Republicans, a conservative party. Both parties, in my opinion, are no different really and are both idiots, but that is just me.
My biggest gripe about the government is religion. In fact there are very few religions in Congress. Mainly Christianity. There are so many muslimphobes out there that if your name has anything middle-eastern sounding you'll get run out of office faster than Nixon.
Now I'm not bashing religion. I really don't care if your Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, or Scientologist. It doesn't matter to me. As long as you have the brains to make unbiased decisions then I'm okay. The problem really lies on many people in Congress making religiously biased decisions that greatly impact our nation. (Just so you know I'm not on a vandetta against religion, I'm Greek Orthodox myself. A.K.A Catholic.)
So what do I mean by "Religiously Biased" decisions? I mean like homo-blam!- people being allowed to marry. I wouldn't mind if you had an actual reason to not allow them this right, and if you had an argument to back it up, but when your reason is "because it is a sin" and your argument is "because the bible said so" then I think your "law" should be repealed. This is not how you make a good law, and this is not how you make a country better.
Another example. In the '90s, a team of scientists proposed that we build a large Atom Collider very similar to the Large Hadron Collider (but before that was even planed) right outside Dallas, Texas. Coincidentally I would live next to an Atom Smasher! (Imagine telling THAT to your friends). When they took this proposal to Congress, a Congressman asked this question. "Will it help find God?" To which the scientist responded, "It will help find the Higgs Boson." After a few votes this project was turned down. A project that would make the U.S. the leader in particle physics, this kind of project that would jump our scientific knowledge into the future, was turned down because it wouldn't find God.
This kind of legislature makes me sick. We aren't as great of a nation because of it. We could be smarter, more tolerant, a nicer place to live, had religion not overrun politics. In fact our constitution says that religion and state need to be separated. I wonder why?