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Originally Posted by ryberg
By and large, there are two sides, another function of the way the government is set up and no more surprising than the fact that its structure has resulted in their being by and large two parties. Some differences in views on the part of some people here and there don't constitute much more than two sides, any more than the existence of an American Communist Party or Green Party or whatever other party constitute a refutation of the country having a two-party system. More sides is just not in the cards, not in the design.
Lately the two sides have been particularly polarized and strident in their complaints about and mistrust of the others. I freely admit, in case it isn't already abundantly clear, that I prefer for example Al Franken's commentary and views to Bill O'Reilly's, or Al Gore's to George Bush's, or Michael Moore's to Anne Coulter's, and so on. However I would much prefer not continuing with one of another pair in the White House and 4+ years of vicious fighting and backlashes seemingly ad infiinitum, is all I'm sayin'.
I guess I'm a denialist when it comes to the idea that the latter is all we can hope for and all we'll ever have and that's the way the system is, or the way politics necessarily goes.
Steve
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That is all you are going to get until the American public decides they want something different, I am afraid. Each side wants the other to budge first, and neither side is going to, because they are too entrenched in their ideas. If a common enemy, whose goal is the destruction of life as we know it, isn't enough to bring the sides together, than nothing is. We can't even agree that Islamic fundamentalism is a grave threat to Western Civilization.
