Right now the Government just needs to put there political agendas aside and do the things the can agree on to show the people that we can have faith in them.
Is the new good day when the S&P is down only 67pts? Disappointment again because people thought for sure the Government was going to get the Stimulus package out today.
The Republicans think they can manipulate the media to make the Dems look bad -- while they hand gobs of our money to the very rich and crumbs to everyone else. They'll probably get away with it too.
I think that's your basic answer in today's world soccerofluv, which is why I'm very concerned about anything getting done. People (in the US today at least) don't put aside politics. And everyone knows everything for certain... I mean for certain.... everyone knows for sure abortion is irrefutably right to allow/wrong to deny....everyone knows for sure capitalism/socialism is right/wrong, and I'm talking about folks who haven't spent decades studying the matters. Half the country knows for certain everything every republicans propose is wrong, the other half knows everything they propose is right, and vice versa. There are no grey areas, no middle grounds, no areas of confusion. Citizens have fallen into the same strict division the parties took years ago when there is no longer discussion/consideration of possibilities because everything is known absolutely.... to the point there is no reason to discuss anything, just grandstand. Its even funny at points when you see someone (maybe accidentally?) proposing what generally goes against their party line. A good example was the recent US tariffs. Not that long ago tariffs were considered a pretty complicated thing with hard to calculate consequences which would have been discussed forever. If a democratic president had put Tariffs in place then it would have the normal every Dem saying it was the right thing to do and every Repub saying it was going to destroy the economy for certain. But A Repub president doing it flipped it, which was pretty hilarious results-wise, as Republicans and Dems both stayed remarkably silent on the move, as it brought about what they considered a contradiction (Tariffs being good but a Repub action being by definition bad, and vice versa).
No one is gonna discuss the right thing to do. Whatever the current administration does is by definition completely right/completely wrong because the decision was made by the administration.
So your statement "the Government just needs to put there political agendas aside and do the things they can agree on" is by definition no longer a possibility that I can imagine. They will not put politics aside and not only will the politicians but the public will disagree with whatever the other party proposes/does precisely because thats what they propose/do.
i haven't given up on the possibility of this in the future someday. We still see local politics work somewhat where people judge the person and actions apart from the party. And at a local level people can usually see the difficulties in which choice is best instead of just picking a talking point.
But on a State/Federal level we are at least many decades away from that. It definitely seems to be getting worse every decade. In the 60s I think most of the country mourned Kennedy being shot. Bush's initial reactions at least to 9-11 seemed to be somewhat praised by both sides for some short period. But its obviously hit the tipping point now. Today we would definitely have half mourn, half rejoice if a president was taken down in the streets (and probably a significant number of people praising the bold act of taking him down) be it Obama or Trump. Its really scary to me we've gotten to this point but I guess I'm getting used to it. I just hope some day I'll know everything like everyone else seems to so I don;t have to think about it anymore.
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