I’m sick of partisanship and divisiveness in politics. That is, I’m sick of politicians using the words. GOP Senator Chuck Hagel is the latest to use the terms as he recently stated “…we can’t hold ourselves captives to this raw, partisan, political paralysis.” This, right after he accused Rush Limbaugh of fostering such divisiveness, saying that “they try…
Political Culture
Politics has it’s own unique and diverse culture made up of lies, half-truths, shades of truth, lies mixed with truth, and gray areas. Politicians are masters of tolerance–they’ll tolerate anything that helps them.
Our society leads us to divide everything into groups of two. Black and white, legal and illegal, conservative and liberal, and Republican and Democrat. This is an inherent characteristic of the world we live in, because by dividing things into groups of two, people get what they want. That is, a TV station broadcasts the news wants high numbers of…
I hesitate to place people in groups because I think there is more that unites us than divides us. The media and politicians are eager to pigeonhole all of us into one group or another and set us against each other in order to get votes, power, and money, and it’s easier to do that when you have someone you…
