Quote Originally Posted by Bruno View Post
It would help if your parties would try to work with each other instead of against each other. Sadly, that will not happen soon, and the system is not set up to enable it. Both parties are guilty.
The liberals want to give the money to the poor people. The conservatives want to give it to business because they never got a paycheck from a poor person. Liberals tend to think that society should take care of all of the have nots by taking from the people that have. Conservatives feel that people that have, by and large, worked hard for what they have and therefore should not be expected to finance programs for people who either were less fortunate or didn't work as hard.

Liberals tend to want to allow mixed gender marriage equating the sexual preferences of homosexuals and lesbians with the plight of black people in the USA in the last century when there is no true comparison. The left wants to continue abortion as a right while , with 4 million abortions in the USA since Roe vs Wade, the conservatives want to severely restrict access. Liberals want to take away the right to keep and bear arms while conservatives want to maintain the 2nd amendment as recently interpreted by the supreme court;. The right wants to keep the death penalty while the left would abolish capital punishment. The left wants to open immigration to any and all while the right wants to substantially limit it.

These are tough issues that underlie the gridlock that we , here in the USA, are experiencing. Forty or fifty years ago some of these issues didn't exist in the sense that the majority of Americans agreed on them. Now it is something like a fifty - fifty split. So the specific issue that the republicans and democrats are debating on a given day may have nothing to do with those mentioned above but those issues are heartfelt by both sides and always in the background.