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I wrote this below, but here it is again: > Team" voting is why politics is broken and we can't have nice things. People vote & evaluate ideas based on their t
by joelrunyon 11y ago
I wrote this below, but here it is again:
> Team" voting is why politics is broken and we can't have nice things. People vote & evaluate ideas based on their teams position rather than the ideas themselves.
I'm glad you're able to evaluate the situation based on it's own merits & come to your own conclusions, but the polarization & villainization of opposite sides of the spectrum is what is killing real political debate.
- purephase 11y agoOh, I agree 100%. My comments are directed solely at what drives most politicians, and that is their own or their party's electability. Rand Paul is a politician as much as any other, and the tea party are nutters. Obama hardly has a stellar record in office and all of the incumbents are, IMO, laughable at this point. I'd say that politicians, and their monied interests, are killing real political debate.