It's both sides, not just one side failing at compromise. You are just a microcosm of the bigger issue that most feel the same way you do - that "right now we only have 1 side with new ideas" or "they (the other side) think their ideas are best". ya, both sides think that sentiment of eachother.Your last paragraph--
If the Americans can learn anything from Germans is that compromise and perspective is a good thing, that 'the other side' is not the enemy, and that one side does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
There. Right there you've done something incredible- you've driven nail home flush to the board- whilst simultaneously missing it completely.
"How's it possible to drive a nail in without actually hitting it?"--- THAT is an interesting feat.
We SHOULD learn to compromise. But-- one side feels as though it can't compromise. Not that they wouldn't-- just that they can't.
You can't negotiate with a Tiger when your head is in its mouth <--- Winston Churchill (but you knew this)
You have an "active" side of the political isle (the left) and you have a "reactive" side (the right).
The reactive side would do little to nothing about politics were it not for them being spurned to do so by the "active" side.
Don't believe me?
Who wants to change things more in this country? The left or the right?
The right wants to be left the fvck alone.
"Leave me alone. Stay out of my house. Stay off my lawn. Stay away from my kids. Leave my SUV alone. Let me eat my steak. Let me have my guns(responsibly). Let me talk to Jesus. I'll pay my taxes and leave you alone, just leave me alone."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That is the overwhelming majority of the people that call themselves conservatives.
And if they'd been left the fvck alone, they wouldn't have RE-acted.
But now, slowly, throw taxes, laws, elections, protests, government regulations, media pressures, social media doxxing, and general assholiness- people have managed to upset their apple cart.
My guns have never hurt anyone. They can't sprout legs and run off and shoot people. So leave me out of the debate. You can't regulate me. I've done nothing wrong. Yet, here they come. (Or try)
We are a nation of laws. Entry into this nation requires adhering to those laws. But some administrations look the other way. And the drugs and poor people and government aid keep going up and up. And, here they come for more of MY money in the form of taxes.
We spent 20 years pouring trillions into 2 wars that cost us blood and treasure. We learned our lesson. Yet, here we go spending billions more on a border dispute to protect another nation's border, and we can't protect our own.
I'm being told I'm taking away the rights of LGBTQ ppl when 30 years ago, Clinton wouldn't let them get married. But they're coming after me because...... apparently I've wronged them somehow.
They want me to pay more taxes on my gas and oil, eat less meat and stop drinking from straws because.... China sure as heck isn't listening to them?
They demanded I stick something in my body that had a 50/50 chance of working, then tried to get my company canceled when I told them to fvck off.
Compromise indeed.
Yes--- Americans should learn to compromise. Butbin order to do so, you must have 2 parties that agree that good ideas can come from BOTH sides.
Right now we only have 1 side that is coming up with new ideas. And they THINK their ideas are best....... and everyone else's ideas are sh!t.
You can guess which side....
they show it time and again. And then it's more whataboutism. Seen that movie tons of times, that's why we are having the same arguments for the last 30 years. i went and watched some rants by Rs and Ds from the 90s and it sounds all the same, the same general grievances each side has with each other ideologically. they seem to want you having the same arguments ad nauseam, predictably taking the same sides, with the same reworded talking points
You take the bait, you are anti 'the other side' so completely, and i dont mean that as an insult but to display where politics is now. so many people feel that same way on either side. I feel being pragmatic and moderate is the most safe place, but so many people see that as another side of the enemy. their safe place is on the fringe of their ideology, as a response to the other side is to lean even further into it. have you noticed? it's troubling. and it's the opposite of problem solving. it's more like they are trying to eliminate vs negotiate.
We are, all of us, being played.
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