I'm sick of the Center!
- Thread starter Wisdom
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Cranky Bastard
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Bi-partisanship is just a euphemism for the government doing what it wants anyway under the guise of comraderie.
It is part of a larger bait and switch tactic.
Normally, a policy is couched in partisan terms to exploit the competituve "football" mentality of the electorate.
"We can score with this one."
Passions are ignited, the rhetoric flies and the public is too busy screaming at the other partisan side to objectively question the idiot policy to begin with that the government will pass no matter what you think.
Consider the border issue. Both dems and reps are busy trying to completely bury the idea of a border fence. Both sides are talking about total amnesty. Both sides scoff at the idea of deportations and use egregiously deceptive figures to support their case against the public.
There is no part of government that represents the public. But they're keeping us "busy" screaming at each other while they do what they were going to do anyway.
Bi-partisanship is when the government knows the electorate is starting to see the larger issue and decides to run interference with a weak "compromise," liberally spiced with feel-good rhetoric, that serves to put both sides back to bickering: exactly where the government wants us to be.
It is part of a larger bait and switch tactic.
Normally, a policy is couched in partisan terms to exploit the competituve "football" mentality of the electorate.
"We can score with this one."
Passions are ignited, the rhetoric flies and the public is too busy screaming at the other partisan side to objectively question the idiot policy to begin with that the government will pass no matter what you think.
Consider the border issue. Both dems and reps are busy trying to completely bury the idea of a border fence. Both sides are talking about total amnesty. Both sides scoff at the idea of deportations and use egregiously deceptive figures to support their case against the public.
There is no part of government that represents the public. But they're keeping us "busy" screaming at each other while they do what they were going to do anyway.
Bi-partisanship is when the government knows the electorate is starting to see the larger issue and decides to run interference with a weak "compromise," liberally spiced with feel-good rhetoric, that serves to put both sides back to bickering: exactly where the government wants us to be.