The Tea Party elements on the "Right" -- the ultra-progressives of the Democratic party on the "Left"-- both sides too hung up on their principles to understand or sometimes even consider the ordinary problems faced by real people, real groups, and the country as a whole. People isolate themselves in their ideologies and run around like small children with their fingers in their ears screaming "I don't hear you; I don't hear you!" And then they proceed to demonize the opposite side or sides as un-American, or Socialist, or Communist, or un-Christian!
Normalcy and problem-solving do not lie on the extreme edges of American politics! Yet everyone in any party seem to kowtow to those extremes -- paying homage out of fear, or out of single-minded stupidity. Sometimes the thought is: "if I keep saying these stupid things aloud long enough, more and more people will come to believe them, or at least the argument(s) with have shifted in my direction."
The extremes have worked their way into the major parties and splintered the ideas of "compromise" and "progress." When progress is somehow accidentally or even blindly achieved, it is never enough for one wing or the other to stop them from condemning whatever change is introduced. We are at a political stalemate. That makes us all political morons.
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