It's time to move forward

[julius]

I think it's time for both parties to move forward.

For one, we had to admit that he's Obama has been a little less inclined to worn with R's, but at the same time R's have been less than keen on working with him.

Spin aside, look at what has happened to Christie or Crist. They try to do work with the other side and they're thrown under the bus.

We, as posters, act in a similar way. Instead of throwing politicans under the bus, we just repeat the taking points over and over and increase our volume, which just gets the other side to do the same. And so on and so on.

Both are to blame for where we are as a nation. To absolve one side is stupid, just as it is to blame one side.

A combo of BOTH ideas can fix the country. That is what's needed. Of course, we might not agree as to what degree each sides ideas work.

I'm tired of political posts, so my last one (this one) is rambling

 

[Natebishop3]

It's like I said... the two parties have become too much of a rivalry. It's like the Celtics and the Lakers. They hate each other. I knew we had crossed the line when Bush was in office and I was watching his state of the union. He was presenting ideas that sounded extremely liberal to me, and yet the Dems were sitting there smirking at him. When we get to the point that the two parties will go against their party lines simply because the person presenting those concepts is from the other party, that means we've gone too far. How will anything get done? They aren't doing this for the good of the country. They are doing it out of spite and hatred. The really sad thing is, though, that the public is too blinded by their own hatred to put an end to it. There is such a knee jerk reaction when someone says they're a Liberal or a Conservative. I don't even talk politics at work or at school. People are so judgmental and it's sad.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

It's like I said... the two parties have become too much of a rivalry. It's like the Celtics and the Lakers. They hate each other. I knew we had crossed the line when Bush was in office and I was watching his state of the union. He was presenting ideas that sounded extremely liberal to me, and yet the Dems were sitting there smirking at him. When we get to the point that the two parties will go against their party lines simply because the person presenting those concepts is from the other party, that means we've gone too far. How will anything get done? They aren't doing this for the good of the country. They are doing it out of spite and hatred. The really sad thing is, though, that the public is too blinded by their own hatred to put an end to it. There is such a knee jerk reaction when someone says they're a Liberal or a Conservative. I don't even talk politics at work or at school. People are so judgmental and it's sad.

Very true. But until hate, and the promotion of hate stops this won't end soon.

 

[Natebishop3]

Very true. But until hate, and the promotion of hate stops this won't end soon.

But it didn't used to be this bad. Shit, Oregon is the way it is because Dems and Pubs worked together to make it that way. This dirty, nasty, mean spirited rivalry between the two parties is just getting worse and worse. The only way it will stop is if the public makes it stop.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

But it didn't used to be this bad. Shit, Oregon is the way it is because Dems and Pubs worked together to make it that way. This dirty, nasty, mean spirited rivalry between the two parties is just getting worse and worse. The only way it will stop is if the public makes it stop.

A good point. But people are just too easily fooled these days. Crap like "The War On Women", "Tax The Rich"... are lies and are so divisive. But so long as it's effective, it'll keep going.

 

[Natebishop3]

A good point. But people are just too easily fooled these days. Crap like "The War On Women", "Tax The Rich"... are lies and are so divisive. But so long as it's effective, it'll keep going.

The sensationalism is definitely out of control. I can't count how many times I would see someone post a link to an article and say, "OMG Romney says he hates gay people!" and then I'd go read the article and he didn't say anything like that, but I'm sure some people just read the title and assumed it was true.