Couples' therapy.

[hollodero]

(08-22-2018, 11:27 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: The issue with the current political climate is that the elected officials have moved away from the idea of governance and are more concerned with just winning. I probable sound like a broken record with this, but this trend has been going on for decades as both sides try to dehumanize their opponents and focus on winning because it means more power and money.

If you look at the data, you will see that the officials from both parties ignore the will of the general public and instead focus their efforts on the will of their donors, which are the wealthy and the corporations. All the while, they push out propaganda to keep the public as divided as possible on a few key issues, not allowing their attention to drift to the things that most of the public actually agrees on but the politicians don't want to do. They don't want to do it because their donors don't like it.

The majority of the American public consists of low information voters (and non-voters) who rely on these propaganda machines to feed them the next thing. We see them in this forum on a regular basis. They fall into the distractions being fed to them and don't want to look any deeper. Until we can get the money out of our politics, it will never change.

Agreed on all counts.

Russian influence did expedite the development, I want to mention that. With campaigns they run everywhere, but which are most fruitful in a climate where everything anti-other side is used without much consideration. But of course, they did not make this happen, it was money and a culture of low information. And it's what the US deserves, as I think I one said already too (broken record), but it's true. One can't be for unrestricted capitalism and against all regulations or restrictions for business and big finance and then wake up and wonder how money took over politics. Well, of course it did.