RE: So when the GOP replaces the ACA with their own version will it "be the best ...
January 17, 2017 at 4:20 am
(January 16, 2017 at 11:46 pm)Crunchy Wrote: The interesting question to me is how did the USA become so immune to pragmatism? Is it the two party system that pushes everyone to extremes? Is it the fact that there appears to be no time limit on elections and you're always campaigning therefore always appealing to ideology?
I think it was the rise of Limbaugh, his ilk, and then the manifestation of Fox News.
The foisting of overly simplistic ideology upon the unsophisticated, coupled with the assignment of blame and the complete demonization of anything not firmly planted in far-right thinking, which occurred every single day, month after month, year after year, and now coming up on 3 decades has spawned this surreal idiocy that causes people to vote against their best interests.
Just listen to Limbaugh for an hour and you will hear the same shit repeated over and over and over. Democrats are inept, stupid, and they hate America. But they have an animal-like cunning too, which is what makes them appealing to stupid, and let's face it, inferior minorities who have been bamboozled by the cunning animals.
The hypocrisy, dishonesty, misrepresentations, twists, and obfuscations are breathtaking.
The two party system functioned fine for a long time because despite being misguided, behind the times, what-have-you, the component of what's best for the country was there in both parties. But it isn't anymore. One party has wrecked the two party system's ability to function effectively, but that's been brought on by the voters who take in all the bullshit they hear every day on TV and radio.
