A lot our professional politicians behave completely irrational, rant, rave and call everyone names, if they don't happen to believe in the same political, psychological or philosophical slogans.
"Senator Marco Rubio says he won’t attend the State of the Union address because it requires a Covid test and he’s too busy to swab his nose. R…
A lot our professional politicians behave completely irrational, rant, rave and call everyone names, if they don't happen to believe in the same political, psychological or philosophical slogans.
"Senator Marco Rubio says he won’t attend the State of the Union address because it requires a Covid test and he’s too busy to swab his nose. Rubio’s bizarre behavior is right in line with the GOP’s embrace of poverty, disease, and death."
The solution is fairly easy: Don't keep re-electing any of these politicians.
Somehow we need to figure out how to look across the Divide before it gets too wide and too big; otherwise America as a United Nation simply cannot continue to exist: We will have a very real repeat of the Civil War. Sure we have had 40-50 years of super conservative elected leadership in the US, but, somehow voters kept electing these people, and somehow money kept buying up all our newspapers. And corporations became country-sized monsters. But, we were lazy and allowed the world's best democracy to collapse.
As an independent voter I think both liberals and conservatives, as well as Mr. Hartman, will gather more consensus by sticking to respectful, polite and factual discussion of issues with all the people we think we disagree with.
At this moment the we have over 30 million registered independent voters in the US, and probably 20 million swing voters, with 10 million on each side of the divide. Most of us are sick and tired of both the Democratic Party's brand of liberalism and the Republican Party's brand of support for only the top 1%. People in the South of the US are, in general, pretty decent people, but they will never embrace the liberal politics of California, Oregon, Washington or New York. However, they sure can agree on quite a few common sense public policies. Perhaps if we focused on what we can agree on we might regain control of the Commons in America. Most US citizens can agree that we need Healthcare for All, and most agree that the pension system of old has disappeared in the US- thus most people will agree to lift income limits on Social Security to capture more contributions from people making more than $147,000 (2022 limit). Most people would probably also agree that the costs of pharmaceuticals have become ridiculous and would agree the pharmaceutical corporations need to be reigned in, have full liability for their remedies and should be prohibited from advertising. All the other extreme liberal, or conservative issues simply can't muster enough consensus to become national policy, and mostly serve to keep us from moving forward in any manner. Personally, I pray we will try very hard to become better listeners.
You have bequeathed a new definition of "futility:" ...Respectful, polite, and factual discussion of issues..." If you haven't noticed that the, let's call them "true believers" will not allow such discourse, you haven't been trying to talk to them, "respectfully, politely and factually" or otherwise. At the slightest, most diplomatic hint of a quibble, they aggressively cut off the interaction and metaphorically "brand" you. If you have not experienced this, I respectfully and politely suggest you are in a sweet bubble, which is OK, I've given up, god bless us everyone.
A lot our professional politicians behave completely irrational, rant, rave and call everyone names, if they don't happen to believe in the same political, psychological or philosophical slogans.
"Senator Marco Rubio says he won’t attend the State of the Union address because it requires a Covid test and he’s too busy to swab his nose. Rubio’s bizarre behavior is right in line with the GOP’s embrace of poverty, disease, and death."
The solution is fairly easy: Don't keep re-electing any of these politicians.
Somehow we need to figure out how to look across the Divide before it gets too wide and too big; otherwise America as a United Nation simply cannot continue to exist: We will have a very real repeat of the Civil War. Sure we have had 40-50 years of super conservative elected leadership in the US, but, somehow voters kept electing these people, and somehow money kept buying up all our newspapers. And corporations became country-sized monsters. But, we were lazy and allowed the world's best democracy to collapse.
As an independent voter I think both liberals and conservatives, as well as Mr. Hartman, will gather more consensus by sticking to respectful, polite and factual discussion of issues with all the people we think we disagree with.
At this moment the we have over 30 million registered independent voters in the US, and probably 20 million swing voters, with 10 million on each side of the divide. Most of us are sick and tired of both the Democratic Party's brand of liberalism and the Republican Party's brand of support for only the top 1%. People in the South of the US are, in general, pretty decent people, but they will never embrace the liberal politics of California, Oregon, Washington or New York. However, they sure can agree on quite a few common sense public policies. Perhaps if we focused on what we can agree on we might regain control of the Commons in America. Most US citizens can agree that we need Healthcare for All, and most agree that the pension system of old has disappeared in the US- thus most people will agree to lift income limits on Social Security to capture more contributions from people making more than $147,000 (2022 limit). Most people would probably also agree that the costs of pharmaceuticals have become ridiculous and would agree the pharmaceutical corporations need to be reigned in, have full liability for their remedies and should be prohibited from advertising. All the other extreme liberal, or conservative issues simply can't muster enough consensus to become national policy, and mostly serve to keep us from moving forward in any manner. Personally, I pray we will try very hard to become better listeners.
You have bequeathed a new definition of "futility:" ...Respectful, polite, and factual discussion of issues..." If you haven't noticed that the, let's call them "true believers" will not allow such discourse, you haven't been trying to talk to them, "respectfully, politely and factually" or otherwise. At the slightest, most diplomatic hint of a quibble, they aggressively cut off the interaction and metaphorically "brand" you. If you have not experienced this, I respectfully and politely suggest you are in a sweet bubble, which is OK, I've given up, god bless us everyone.