Governments are the reflection of the people, certainly we are divided, and think about why we are so divided. We have a two party system, winner take all, and this the way it'll stay until we get rid of winner take all. So we have this reoccurring pattern, Dems in power, they do such a good job of it, voted out of power, Repubs in power, such a good job they're voted out, and so on and so on ad nauseam. We move in circles rather than progress. I believe this entire process is broken, I'm well aware of all the failures by both parties. Our gvt. no longer serves us, too many listen to all the propaganda and believe it, the other side is the devil. But then I suppose this is to be expected, people prefer zero sum games to win, win scenarios. Perhaps democracy is not inherently a preferred form of gvt, too many compromises for most.
And a Happy 4th to all!
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@mitch2 +100 Back in 2012 I was on a business trip to Denver, a city that had welcomed a number of refugee communities. It was the evening of one of the Romney-Obama presidential debates, held in downtown Denver, and I asked my taxi driver -- who was clearly an immigrant -- what he thought of it. His answer: "I think it’s great! I came here from Chad. If you expressed your opinion in the streets of Chad, like Americans do here, you would be killed." I cherish the free exchange of ideas and viewpoints, but recent events have me wondering if we have become so tribal that we can’t do so any more... I hope there is a way out. I’m old enough to remember the rhetoric, the assassinations, and the general chaos of the 1960s, and was really hoping not experience a repeat in my lifetime... |
@viridian NICE!!!
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