Partisan bickering is so pathetic

[TwixVoy]

Partisan bickering is so pathetic. I have avoided the lame which politician (celebrity) is better BS for years now.

Politicians don't want to face the music, the people don't want to face the music. The people don't want to willfully make major changes in their lifestyle and no politician is going to commit political suicide by proposing it.

Extrapolate our current situation out to it's logical conclusion. Take into account history and how long it took us to get where we are. It took our nation over 200 years to reach $6T in debt in 2002. It took us 7 years to double that. It doesn't take a genius to realize that this spending is not just unsustainable, but that it's accelerated at a pace that most would not have thought possible.

We're very close to collapse right now. By all means continue the partisan bickering. It's meaningless right along with health care reform, TARP, bailouts, cap and trade, all the issues of the moment. Survival will be the challenge of the next decade. You'll be surrendering freedoms at a pace that will make your head spin.

A glimmer of hope. Obama, after his visit to China, said that all this debt may be a bad thing. One can take an educated guess that the Chinese government gave him a stern talking to explaining that the well is running dry.

At least we can rest assured that we will be entertained by the partisan hacks pointing fingers at each other as to whose fault it is they are hungry. The ironic part is both Bush and Obama have allowed and are currently allowing mobsters to rob all of us blind. Obama and the Dems could stop half of this crap by making a few phone calls and legislate the other half with ease. What do they do instead? They ensure the banksters who robbed and extorted us get their fat ass bonuses via legislation and then pretend to be pissed.

[SteppingRazor]

1. It's actually worse than that. The first 200 years of this country, we accumulated $500B in debt.

The trillions are purely a product of the last 25 years or so.

[get the red out]

2. Tell the news media

The news media has played a major roll in creating such a partisan environment that neighbors literally hate each other now due to party affiliation and there is no way to speak the truth about anything and not be run out on a rail. Meanwhile it's the media's bread and butter.

[Prism]

3. Pop Partisanship

There are certain issues that politicians are prepared to bicker over in order to give their constituents the illusion that there is a major difference between the parties, that things are being accomplished, that the game can be changed by a simple act of popular will at the ballot box. We commonly refer to it as the Culture War.

While there are real issues at stake in the Culture War such as reproductive freedom and equality for all citizens, the politicians use it as a smokescreen to continue looting the citizenry dry. Even in this Democratic government, there is some minor movement forward on cultural issues, but Wall Street continues to receive its trillions, the American people are driven even further into financial bondage, and government is continuing to rig the system so that 90% of citizens become little more than economic serfs to provide for the continuing comfort and wealth of the ruling class.

I think George Carlin said it best with, and I'm paraphrasing, "The politicians and the wealthy make sure the people keep fighting among themselves so that they can keep going to the bank."

So we get this form of popular partisanship, where everything is Super Serious, and there are only loyalists and traitors to the Cause. red shirts vs. blue shirts.

There is no room and no patience for any voice that might go, "Hey, does anyone else see all those politicians and bankers walking out of the Treasury with all our cash?"

Until we can somehow break that, our trajectory of the last forty or fifty years will continue forward with increasingly devastating results for the average citizen.

[kixat2550]

4. I agree, just bullshit

[slipslidingaway]

5. knr n/t

[damntexdem]

6. What we NEED is partisan bickering.

What we HAVE is rightwing idiocy that has replaced any thoughtful debate from the GOP with garbage.

[TexasObserver]

7. "We're very close to collapse right now." --- Utter nonsense.

Please explain how your comments differ substantially from any Ron Paul backer, or any teabagger.