I suppose that depends on where you sit. I've been bashing the left lately because of the whingeing and that stupid safety pin campaign. However, it doesn't matter how badly either opposite behaved, nobody gets a pass on bad behaviour. We're not going to measure it out and hold a contest for the best or worst-behaved side.
Nobody is obliged to pick a team. I can't stand either of them and I'm neutral in the culture wars so don't even bother starting on that one.
I know what your game is: if we don't pick your side we're with the other one by default. That's partisan nonsense. The sooner we leave that nonsense behind and everyone gets on the side of non-partisan common sense, the better.
That'll be true till he reneges on the promises he made that attracted the support in the first place. Nativists will be annoyed about the wall not being built and the millions of deportations not taking place.
Hillary-haters are no doubt annoyed that he hasn't given much thought to putting her in jail.
When TrumpTrade, A.K.A. RCEP, starts getting more traction, expect him to do a 180 on free trade agreements that screw American workers.
At that point, when he breaks the promises they believe he made to them, his supporters will break away group by group according to the issue bloc and look to someone else to make the trains run on time.
TPP will no doubt be allowed to die, after which we'll have TrumpTrade, i.e. RCEP, the new 16-way trade deal that now includes China along with the dreaded ISDS.
Don't say I didn't warn you. He only came out against TPP because it's a hot potato.
_Fostering a race war when he could have done so much to unite? Not once reaching across the isle for compromise but expecting compromise by doing things his way?_
Erm, no, that was t'other side.
Race war? How? The Birther conspiracy theories, murdered gay husband and other nutty stuff came from the alt-right side of the aisle.
As for compromise, the Right shut Congress down and see compromise as weakness. Obamacare IS compromise. That's how it passed.
Here's a solution: a sustained grass-roots campaign to effect proportional representation and comprehensive electoral reform.
Don't look at me to implement this, I'm Irish and live in the UK. If it's not a valid solution, at least let's be talking about solutions instead of just bitching about the problem.
As Mike has often correctly pointed out, it's because the media has generally become either stenographers who don't call politicians to account or angry talking heads talking crap to stoke partisan tensions to boost their ratings.
Most of the mainstream outlets who endorsed Hillary did so because "Never Trump," not because they particularly like her.
You need proportional representation, state funding for political parties' campaigns, and a cap on how many ads a party can broadcast during the election season so the bigger ones don't drown the smaller ones out.
Google doesn't control results, it sorts them according to your personal preferences, i.e. you influence what comes up on your browser yourself by what you search for, click on, and click through. Clear history, cookies and cache, then try again, see what comes up.
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Who had "Dems have always been left/liberal" on their Partisan Bingo card?
It's nonsense. The Dems switched from right-leaning to their current neoliberal + progressive (both factions fight with each other) position after Nixon's Southern Strategy pushed the Progressives out of the Republican party.
^This. The country is divided because t'other side won't do as they're damn well told. What about creating a mad lib of your issues but leaving a __________ where the scapegoat goes, i.e. "I'm sick of seeing ___________ getting all the money while I get nothing."
Won't it be fun comparing notes with the people on the other side of the aisle? You may find that you've got a lot more in common than you realise, you're just too busy blaming people to look for solutions.
That tribal thing you do has got to stop. Bin ideology and start thinking practically, and trust me, things will get better.
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He can't act like a king, okay? Settle down.
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Nobody has picked a side by virtue of not being on yours.
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Say "boogeyman" instead, you partisan hack, AC!
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Nobody is obliged to pick a team. I can't stand either of them and I'm neutral in the culture wars so don't even bother starting on that one.
I know what your game is: if we don't pick your side we're with the other one by default. That's partisan nonsense. The sooner we leave that nonsense behind and everyone gets on the side of non-partisan common sense, the better.
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Hillary-haters are no doubt annoyed that he hasn't given much thought to putting her in jail.
When TrumpTrade, A.K.A. RCEP, starts getting more traction, expect him to do a 180 on free trade agreements that screw American workers.
At that point, when he breaks the promises they believe he made to them, his supporters will break away group by group according to the issue bloc and look to someone else to make the trains run on time.
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Don't say I didn't warn you. He only came out against TPP because it's a hot potato.
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_Fostering a race war when he could have done so much to unite? Not once reaching across the isle for compromise but expecting compromise by doing things his way?_
Erm, no, that was t'other side.
Race war? How? The Birther conspiracy theories, murdered gay husband and other nutty stuff came from the alt-right side of the aisle.
As for compromise, the Right shut Congress down and see compromise as weakness. Obamacare IS compromise. That's how it passed.
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Don't look at me to implement this, I'm Irish and live in the UK. If it's not a valid solution, at least let's be talking about solutions instead of just bitching about the problem.
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Most of the mainstream outlets who endorsed Hillary did so because "Never Trump," not because they particularly like her.
You need proportional representation, state funding for political parties' campaigns, and a cap on how many ads a party can broadcast during the election season so the bigger ones don't drown the smaller ones out.
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It's nonsense. The Dems switched from right-leaning to their current neoliberal + progressive (both factions fight with each other) position after Nixon's Southern Strategy pushed the Progressives out of the Republican party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Republican
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Won't it be fun comparing notes with the people on the other side of the aisle? You may find that you've got a lot more in common than you realise, you're just too busy blaming people to look for solutions.
That tribal thing you do has got to stop. Bin ideology and start thinking practically, and trust me, things will get better.
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What it does have is right and further right.
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