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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

It is war. The parties aren't close in position. One wants to give oil companies all the money they possibly can, and the other doesn't. One of them wants us to pay the 40 or 50 cents a gallon to oil companies wallets, and the other doesn't. It's not unimportant stuff. It's a war between evil and good. People want things to be less partisan, but it's impossible because the positions are waaaaay too far apart. We often are giving each oil company 10 bil/ quarter year. ONE PARTY KEEPS SUPPORTING THAT. THAT'S EVIL. PURE EVIL. People who want the parties to come together are ignorant of the vast difference between the 2 parties. They aren't close. The results obtained by the party in charge are close, but that's because nobody can do anything without the other party hindering them. So, ignorant people think the positions of each party are somewhat the same. They aren't. Whenever I see somebody say the members of 2 different parties are about the same, then I know they're ignorant. The thing that hurts the country is people who are too lazy to know what the positions of the 2 parties are on issues. If they knew that, then I think the positions of the parties would be much closer. Ignorance by the electorate allows a party to keep extreme positions in place. The way to get your nice-nice is to change extreme party positions to more moderate ones. That won't happen unless the electorate knows how extreme a certain party is.

enjoy the war in your head. you and nixon have a lot in common.