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Originally Posted by JU_88
Why has every single political thought got to conform with right or left? WHY?
seems like its blinding everyone away from common sense.
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Originally Posted by Dread Knot
Well, we used to have this weird thing called a "political center", but it was polarized out of existence years ago by the various 24-hour media machines that consider politics some sort of bloodsport.
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Not quite true. One of the stated desires of the founders was to have no parties, as they had seen what that was like in Britain and France. They then immediately began to engage in partisan politics. You can blame the media all you want, but in their time the newspapers were sock-puppets for the politicians themselves. Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson waged war in the papers over several issues right from the start. The media are not solely to blame. People want to be right, and they want 'the other guy' to be wrong.
If you have an opinion on an issue, great. If you "know" you're right about it, you're part of the problem. Blaming someone else is the source of all partisan politics, so blame yourself first.