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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the mid terms show me is that the US is fairly equally divided between Dems and Republicans … Neither party have a mandate to act too rashly with extreme agendas. National bans on Abortion in particular should be off the table. The election deniers back by the former president did not fare well. People want to move on from the unstable unpredictable nuttiness of Trump years but not in the exact opposite direction.

Do you think more politicians will try and find ways to work across the aisle on the economy, immigration and national security threats or will the extreme posturing/ polarized Militarization of politics continue?

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Not really.

First, the current GOP has no interest in being a fair negotation or debate partner to the dems. They have been following an obstructionist path since Newt Gingrich was speaker of the House.
Second, the blue states generally have independent redistricting commissions where the red states have different ranges of gerrymandering which squeezes out dozens of GOP safe seats - certainly way more than the Dems.
Third, the Senate representation of barely populated red states (why are there two dakotas?) combined with state and federal level gerrymandering, give the GOP much more power than their voting base they represent.

There is no incentive to the GOP being a participant in our republic when they can just keep their base angry with lies and half-truths.[/quote]

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