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Old 10-14-2013, 03:42 PM
 
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One thing most all of us have in common is a general and growing frustration with gridlock and ineffectiveness in our government.

Why do you think this seems to be polarizing us further as opposed to pushing us more towards the center?

I'm not naive...I have my own thoughts, but would like to hear yours.
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Old 10-14-2013, 03:48 PM
 
Location: Florida
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One thing most all of us have in common is a general and growing frustration with gridlock and ineffectiveness in our government.

Why do you think this seems to be polarizing us further as opposed to pushing us more towards the center?

I'm not naive...I have my own thoughts, but would like to hear yours.
The current events is pushing us back to Dem House, Dem super majority in Senate and another Dem president and I don't think its ever a good thing when one party controls all branches of government. A split is good, but the kind of split we have now is ridiculous due to the actions of the GOP.
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Old 10-14-2013, 03:49 PM
 
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One thing most all of us have in common is a general and growing frustration with gridlock and ineffectiveness in our government.

Why do you think this seems to be polarizing us further as opposed to pushing us more towards the center?

I'm not naive...I have my own thoughts, but would like to hear yours.
Government is always ineffective, wasteful, and unresponsive. It always will be. That is, by nature, the precise definition of government.

It's just that one side believes it should control everyone and everything, and the sane people look at it and its history and say "you have got to be freaking insane!!!"
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Old 10-14-2013, 03:50 PM
 
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The current events is pushing us back to Dem House, Dem super majority in Senate and another Dem president and I don't think its ever a good thing when one party controls all branches of government. A split is good, but the kind of split we have now is ridiculous due to the actions of the GOP.
Just imagine, here's one of those "government, no matter how ineffective and useless and wasteful and destructive, must ALWAYS CONTROL EVERYTHING" people.
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Old 10-14-2013, 03:53 PM
 
Location: New Mexico
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Default Why is our frustration with government polarizing us further?

Blame it on the big crybabies.

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Old 10-14-2013, 03:59 PM
 
Location: MS
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One thing most all of us have in common is a general and growing frustration with gridlock and ineffectiveness in our government.

Why do you think this seems to be polarizing us further as opposed to pushing us more towards the center?

I'm not naive...I have my own thoughts, but would like to hear yours.
I'm not frustrated with gridlock, I want more of it.
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Old 10-14-2013, 03:59 PM
 
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You'll see it here - everybody already has their mind made up who to blame for everything and when it get tough, the blame just gets more intense - and blind.
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Old 10-14-2013, 04:02 PM
 
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You'll see it here - everybody already has their mind made up who to blame for everything and when it get tough, the blame just gets more intense - and blind.
Actually, there's definitive truth. And the left doesn't have it. It rejects facts, reason, logic, and reality.
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Old 10-14-2013, 04:04 PM
 
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One thing most all of us have in common is a general and growing frustration with gridlock and ineffectiveness in our government.

Why do you think this seems to be polarizing us further as opposed to pushing us more towards the center?

I'm not naive...I have my own thoughts, but would like to hear yours.
We have gridlock in our society.

For some reason, people continue to skip over this.

They are in gridlock BECAUSE we are in gridlock.
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Old 10-14-2013, 04:07 PM
 
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Just imagine, here's one of those "government, no matter how ineffective and useless and wasteful and destructive, must ALWAYS CONTROL EVERYTHING" people.
Huh
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