Amen Kevin. I just want to add that unfortunately, it's the media who magnify the polarization whenever possible, and the public depend on the media to help them form their own opinions. So everyone ends up being pro-war or anti-war, and it devolves into an ideological debate, which it shouldn't be.
Unfortunately I don't see a solution. The media is a necessary evil, and so are politicians. We just need to figure out how to marginalize the level of evilness ourselves. In my mind the media is a roadblock to killing off the two party system, and the only thing that I see having the same power the media wields....is the Internet. jon Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 3:47:12 PM, you wrote: >> Like I said, most of the dems who supported the war lost. KG> Fortunately, my Representative who voted against war won despite running KG> against a person who strongly supported using military force. >> Dems just spent time >> critisizing Republicans. KG> This is a two sided problem. One is that having a two party system invites a KG> devolution into polarized debate where the other side is automatically KG> wrong. Getting rid of parties would require people to actually talk about KG> details of the issues. KG> The other side is that Dems get criticized for complaining about the war and KG> not offering a solution. Not going to war is a solution. It's just that KG> people mistake non-action as a non-solution when in reality it is just KG> non-aggressive. KG> -Kevin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
