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Rep. Matt Gaetz Invited Holocaust Denying White Supremacist Chuck C. Johnson (Who Is NOT ME) to the SOTU

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Dangerman1/31/2018 2:02:54 pm PST

re: #193 KGxvi

I think there are a lot of people who want vastly different things. We see on issues like immigration. Those of us in states most effected by immigration (port and border states, with large cities) tend to want more immigration. Those furthest away from immigration tend to want less immigration.

My gut says that on most issues there’s 40-50% that want one thing, probably 35-45% that want something else, and then a middle group of 5-30% that is somewhere in between. That is a problem when our system of government is designed to generate consensus on issues as much as possible.

what has gone wrong is reconciling the bold - both by government (congress and the prez) and the parties / people in general

both (or three) points of view used to be valid. then there used to be a negotiation, an eventual coming together and agreeing on a “common good”

one side wont play by those rules any more so politics is no longer a clash of value systems, each of which is in some way valid - a competition between basically well-intentioned people who see the world differently

it has become, not even a conflict of interests, but instead a degenerative, struggle for power in which ONE side with righteous indignation believes only the other is and can be capable of behaving despicably