n_huffhines
What's it gonna cost?
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Doesn't bother me that you do see it the way I do. In a perfect world one would think that this country is best ran from the Center. The extremes pull from the center. There is good in each party and those are the ones that can compromise even when they disagree. It is a lost Art and has been for a while and it worsens each cycle to where we are now.
I don't really want them to be better at compromising. Too much compromise ends up working against Americans. I want the government to be small and streamlined. Most congressional action goes against that. If you were to tell me they are going to compromise to make immigration policy more feasible, enforceable, affordable, intelligible, etc. then I'd be all for it, but the compromises are almost always quid pro quo where the agreement on both sides results in taking more taxpayer $/incurring more debt. They don't actually want to solve immigration because that's a deal-breaker topic dividing so much of the nation, and the two sides hold their constituents hostage over it.
The extremists are good for misdirecting attention. We argue about hot button issues like immigration and race, and we also focus on the bad actors in each party, as well as the extremists, and then the people in the middle are the ones passing the Covid Stimulus Relief bill, or whatever.
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