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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
What do you want from me when all the republican supporters do is throw mud and repeat party buzzwords? I've posted links when asked, I've made my cases.
Also Sly, you know how it is. If they dont see they have a problem, they'll never think to try to solve anything. Their minority leader came out the other day with a statement in opposition to a moritorium on deep water drilling, and at the first question admitted that it might be a good idea to temporarily pause deep water drilling. The absurdity is transparent so thats what it gets in return.
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I don't know how many times I was told that when the Democrats control the House, the Senate, and the presidency... things would change. It happened. All of it. They are just shy of a complete 60 vote majority of the Senate. And they still blame the Republicans. Seriously? What do they want? 100%? I am too young to remember but I'm sure the Republicans did this too, I'm not saying this is a Democrat monopoly.
It goes back and forth. It always has and it always will. Politicians have one thing in mind, and that is getting reelected. Each party caters to a specific group of people in order to get money so they can go out and get reelected again. If they would stop the rhetoric, cut out the bull shit, and actually sit down and chat and try to hash out some problems without worrying about getting reelected next term... we might actually make some progress.
The funniest part to me is Republicans and Democrats aren't all that different. Americans in general aren't all that different. Humans in general aren't all that different. We all have basic wants, basic needs, basic desires. You hear a Democrat stand up and give a speech about a topic... two days later a Republican will stand up and give a speech about the same topic, blasting the Democrat and calling them names... while in the end, they both want the same thing.
I would say that I am borderline Republican, I'm actually pretty in the middle overall, but typically I lean right slightly. I tell this to people and they get all upset, start calling names, saying nasty things. Then we chat a little bit. And this big pretty light flashes out of the sky... "hey, we aren't all that different after all." No, we are not. We get stamped with these silly labels that create awful assumptions and help us go nowhere.
We all want to eliminate fraud. Nobody wants to see homeless children running out on the streets. Claiming that the Democrats want to shield the fraudsters is as silly as claiming that Republicans want people running around homeless. They are both nonsensical, rhetorical arguments that people create in order to fuel hate. Both issues could be addressed and maybe even resolved if they would quit worrying about what the Tea Party or the Left Flank is doing in their home district.
Alas... this will never change. Save us all.