Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I find this so frustrating. I'm old - well into my 50s - and have decades of healthy political debate in my past. I also think a balance of power is helpful. Just like we don't think it's healthy to engage in an echo chamber here on DCUM, neither should anyone think it's healthy in government. When did politics become a full contact sport, winner take all, fight to the death? My god, when we did we decide our way was the only way and all others be damed. We are a sick society. We are governed by hate.
His friends call him Newt.
+1
And to the pp bemoaning politics: it’s the GOP. One party is does everything to cheat, push the envelope, make life terrible and use their corruption to enrich themselves. Just one party has been openly advertising that they want to dismantle democracy and uses stochastic terrorism to foment violence and a hot civil war. Just one party tried to overthrow the government and works with Russia to win. Just one party has no platform and no plans to help global warming, which, like it or not is the biggest issue of our lives. (And just one party has a documented and massive problem with pedophiles, rapists and domestic abusers in their ranks who are not expunged from the party but celebrated.)
And that OP on this strand will read my post, shake her head and lump me in with the thugs in the GOP, saying “you see! We are governed by hate! Because one person online told the truth about what the GOP is doing, that’s the same thing as the GOP’s actual crimes. Politics of hate.”
The both sideser are going to put America in the garbage.