All these people are relatively smart and rational people, but when it comes to Politics, a lot of people result to primitive tribe like mentality. Some people I know going as far and stating with conviction, I will never, ever vote for someone in another party.
This is what I think is really wrong with Politics. Hell, there are times when both sides of the aisle are for the same outcome but can't even fathom to entertain the idea of how to do things if the idea came from the “other tribe”
The result is we really do not get anywhere. No matter how much hope and change people try to bring in, when both sides can't even get along unless that are absolutely forced to, nothing meaningful can get done.
Unfortunately, when one party or the other has complete control you get legislation that divides the country, such as the Affordable Healthcare Act.
No matter where you stand on the ACA, you cannot deny its a very dividing piece of legislation. Though President Obama pushed it, this is really the fault of the real change makers of the country. The Congress and Senate.
Remember that great line, “Lets vote for it so we can read it?”. Really? You are going to vote on a piece of legislation where most of the people voting for it at best briefly skimmed through it or read the synopsis that the author made?
Who knows how many times this has happened, but I doubt this is the first or last time.
Change starts from within, not from the top. If you just keep changing the Chief without changing how the tribe works, you will always get the same results.
