Do you know what tax deductible means...? Taxes could be 100% and businesses could still hire as many people as they need. Taxes are, essentially, only on profits. god I've probably said this a million times on this forum. How can people pretend to have opinions without even understanding how the government works.
No, it isn't. Sure, it's a lot of bickering, but it's over policy that matters. What party just passed historic healthcare legislation that gives rights to consumers that were otherwise being fucked by insurance companies? What party just nearly shut down the government over abortions? What party passed the two social programs that substantially elevated the living standard for an enormous amount of seniors? What party deregulated the financial industry which led to this entire economic mess we are in. What party got us through the great depression? What party gave millionaires enormous tax cuts that partially led to this debt crisis we are currently in? What party last gave us a surplus? What party widdled that away? What party gave substantial rights to working people? What party is trying to take those rights away at the state level? What party outlawed child labor?
There is absolutely a lot of bickering and gridlock in the government, but it's not because people are too partisan. It's because people try to hard to be bipartisan. They're either too stupid or too lazy to critically compare the two parties, their respective policies and what they have done so they either say they're both horrible and don't vote or they think there is a virtue in having a divided government.
Audioholic will just say that I'm being partisan again. Well, I am, and I proudly admit it. There is nothing wrong with being partisan, there is a problem with not being rational, critical and objective. Being bipartisan isn't being objective. Being partisan isn't being subjective. If one party is wrong, and the other is right, then there is no value in being bipartisan. If one party says that the world is flat and the other says that the earth is round, is it bad to say that one party is wrong? Is that being too partisan?
And unfortunately, it's impossible for our politicians to be bipartisan because the two parties want substantially different things. Democrats want to use government and a medium to raise the living standards for all people. Republicans want to say "**** you you're on your own" with their "free market principles" (which are more lies) and the like. The two are not reconcilable.
But audiolife, the psychic, knows that I only say these things because I have some democratic bias, even though my family owns a large restaurant and is heavily republican. Even though, like I've told him before, before I actually started to pay attention to politics and critically compared the republicans and democrats, I liked the republicans more, for no other reason that my family does. In fact, when I learned about FDR in 8th grade, I remember being disappointed he was a democrat.
