re: #197 dangerman

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

The only way to defeat this attitude is to keep defeating them in elections over and over until they give way to the next generation.