It's OK to kill cops if you're a Republican

[DeistPaladin]

Due to the highly partisan atmosphere, the reaction of many liberals is to point fingers and become highly defensive, rather than offer any positive solution, and in doing so, we just feed into the partisan atmosphere that has us gridlocked. By allowing ourselves to slip into this us vs. them mentality, we are enabling the rigid, no-compromise movement.

I think we're in agreement about the problem but not the solution.

You can't negotiate with a group that sees negotiation as a weakness. We've seen Obama try that for six years and you see where that's gotten him.

You can't reason with someone like, let's just say, ATheist. You can point out to him where Fox has actively lied to him (as I did recently) and he shrugs it off. He's gone. I see no reason, given my experiences elsewhere, to think anyone else in the GOP base is any more open to reason.

The best solution I see is a complete electoral crushing of the GOP.

Step 1 in this campaign is that the "both sides" lie has got to go. Once that happens, their last line of defense is gone. They'll have no where to hide once they're caught lying, being abusive, being corrupt or just generally incompetent.

Step 2 is to reason with and convince more and more moderates. Once the "both sides" lie is stripped away, more Americans will see the need to deal with the people responsible for the mess.

Step 3 is to reduce the base of the GOP to a screaming minority and political irrelevancy.