| "results suffer while the ideological conflict is enhanced" exactly. The most disconcerting part about the state of American politics is the focus on a predecided ideology of the other party being wrong. proving the other party wrong is apparently worth everyone suffering over. When each party is increasingly controlled by less people, then we now have a country where 300million people are willing to shoot themselves in the foot in the name of their party, with the ruling groups of each party having the interests of neither in mind. Now youve just created an ideology of sacrificial progress in the name of a party. There is more loyalty in this country to ones party than there is to the country and the progress of the country. The emotions and irrationality of attachment, and continual degredation of the other party just to be in the right, approaches religion. The only thing more demoralizing than this is the fact that this conversation is continually broadcast on two news stations each owned by billionaires, who curate the "news" themselves. The biggest progress I've seen in news lately is Bill Oreily being fired for 11 pending and accumulating harrassment lawsuits. Must be nice to get paid $75million to be fired. True journalism shines through again. It's extremely....disconcerting. |