5 thoughts on “Once you’ve called somebody a “feckless weakling,” it’s hard to imagine working productively together”
The gif should help wake everybody up this morning. The article's actually pretty good, though. The author argues that we effectively had four parties (conservative and liberal wings of the Dems and GOPers) from 1900 until 1990, and that government actually worked better then.
Whereas the scorched-earth strategies of Gingrich and his ideological successors make cooperative government impossible.
Absolutely spot on IMHO. People seemed amazed that the UK could function with right-wing Conservatives and left-wing Liberal Democrats in coalition, but it went smoothly.
Yes there was compromise, and the LibDem voters felt 'betrayed' by certain decisions made in government – but deserting them in the resulting election (and of course virtually everyone in Scotland seemingly voting SNP) only created a Conservative majority… which the country's now paying for via unchecked 'austerity measures' and attempts to cut family credits and benefits.
2010-2015 showed just what could be done by two parties working across the aisle.
By contrast, the cartoonish US extremism is scary and funny, in equal measure.
And now that I think of it, where does a guy with so little willpower that he can't lose escape morbid obesity even with lap band surgery get off judging somebody else's character?
The gif should help wake everybody up this morning. The article's actually pretty good, though. The author argues that we effectively had four parties (conservative and liberal wings of the Dems and GOPers) from 1900 until 1990, and that government actually worked better then.
Whereas the scorched-earth strategies of Gingrich and his ideological successors make cooperative government impossible.
Absolutely spot on IMHO. People seemed amazed that the UK could function with right-wing Conservatives and left-wing Liberal Democrats in coalition, but it went smoothly.
Yes there was compromise, and the LibDem voters felt 'betrayed' by certain decisions made in government – but deserting them in the resulting election (and of course virtually everyone in Scotland seemingly voting SNP) only created a Conservative majority… which the country's now paying for via unchecked 'austerity measures' and attempts to cut family credits and benefits.
2010-2015 showed just what could be done by two parties working across the aisle.
By contrast, the cartoonish US extremism is scary and funny, in equal measure.
Politics cartoonish in 'Merica? Actually, [ America's cartoons are often prescient. ]
Bullwinkle/|Gidney the Moon man| 2016!
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And now that I think of it, where does a guy with so little willpower that he can't lose escape morbid obesity even with lap band surgery get off judging somebody else's character?