What’s missing in the political debate?
As our country grows more divisive, I think there is one crucial missing ingredient in our national debate. It’s the understand that all of us, liberals and conservatives, are on the same team. We’re together in this. We should be listening to each other, trying to find areas of commonality and agreement that we can build upon.
Sometimes it feels like one side or the other forgets that the vast majority of us truly care about our country and our opinions are honest and good faith efforts to try to get us there. When we call one side of a political debate “evil” we’ve just lost the opportunity to improve. When we accuse those with differing opinions than our own of wanting to destroy America we have hurt our decision making process to the detriment of the country we love so much.
When someone doesn’t agree with you on a political issue, try to really listen and remember that they care just as much as you. Wouldn’t it be nice to be back on the same team, be less divisive and start making better decisions?
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May 24, 2008 at 12:21 am
I could not agree with you more. The problem is, the gap in political thinking between the two extremes has widened so much that we are almost two separate countries in the thinking arena.
I am a conservative Democrat (Some might call me a JFK democrat), I have become so disenchanted with both political parties that I am seriously concidering sitting out this election. My own party has become so liberal in its view that I can no longer relaate to them. The Republicans are firmly in the box with the big business capitalists that they no longer see the pain of the “small guy”.
What we need is a leader. Period. A man or woman who will work for the people and not an agenda, or power, or greed, or wealth, or any other god of the earth. We need leadership that I believe does not exist in either political party. Unfortunately, that person is nowhere in sight on the political horizon. We need a by the book constitutionalist that will bring us back to the times of our forebearers and bring non-divisive sanity back into the political arena of ideas.