11-07-2021, 06:49 PM
We have a democracy. Our legislators are responsible to constituents (nominally, at least; in some cases those pols seem more responsible to their financial backers even if those are from out of their state or district), and they are reasonably expected to disagree with each other and with the President. A 51-49 split can decide everything, and in as polarized a society as ours, it does.
All political victories are watered down in a democracy in which an Other Side has relevance. The other side can obstruct, but it must make individual compromises if it is to get anything. I look forward to another 1T in which politicians look to legislation more to get something for their constituents more than to confirm some ideology.
All political victories are watered down in a democracy in which an Other Side has relevance. The other side can obstruct, but it must make individual compromises if it is to get anything. I look forward to another 1T in which politicians look to legislation more to get something for their constituents more than to confirm some ideology.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.