PLATITUDE: A remark or statement, one with a moral content
that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful.
There is no middle
ground anymore, no one is a centralist(centrist), everyone is an extremist.
I will never
understand how a poor person can vote Republican.
Republicans represent
rich old money. Shoot, money in general. Republican policy rarely supports the
lower or middle class. It's not opinion, its fact.
These are some quotes pulled from a series of post by some
of my Facebook friends this afternoon.
This sharing of opinions in the modern day equivalent of
the town square, was engendered by an earnest young woman who complained in a
status that-
This polarization of
politics--- liberal v conservative, republican v democrat--- is what is wrong
with America.
POLARIZATION: the act
of making the differences between groups or ideas ever more clear-cut and
extreme, hardening the opposition between them.
In my opinion, politics in America today, is dominated by the
competition of ideologies. Like-minded
people band together in political parties to advance their agendas, which they believe
will best serve their state or nation. Competition
with other groups, who don't agree with said agenda, results in political discourse.
During this discourse
if - the differences between groups or
ideas become ever more clear cut- it is democracy in action. This is a good
thing.
If it causes - hardening of the opposition between them - it is not bad, and not necessarily
good, but to paraphrase Shakespeare,
“IT IS, WHAT IT IS.” lol
What is wrong with America today is the way this discourse
takes place!
In sound bites and shouting matches, and in thirty second ads and
bumper sticker platitudes.
Liberal and conservative are political philosophies, and
Republican and Democrat are political parties; they are not interchangeable terms.
Sometimes people with no philosophy do not understand people
who have one, and resort to denigration rather than debate.
