"Mike Marlow" wrote in message
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This goes to the heart of what is wrong with American politics today.
It is no longer enough to claim the other side is wrong, they have to
be wicked as well and actively working to damage the nation and harm
its people. Is it any wonder compromise fails when politics is
practiced in a manner that requires painting the other side as
heretics?

Well - in a controversial world, it has always been that way.

It hasn't always been that way, there was a time when members of Congress
from different parties were friends who respected each other and could work
together, they didn't assume the R or the D after the other guy's name was
proof of incompetence and corruption.

The problem is that we are now inundated with too many idiots who feel a
false sense of obligation and remorse for the very things that have made
this nation great. For some reason they feel it is wrong to work hard and
be successful - wrong to be the unique model for how good things could be
for those living under worse conditions.

And of course you can quote Mr. Obama expounding on how wrong it is to work
hard and become successful, sure you can. No doubt you can also demonstrate
in convincing terms how no other nation has advanced science and industry
and economics and politics to provide a better standard of living for its
people, clearly America is, as you say, unique in that respect. Oh sure,
some of those smelly foreigners will point to their superior schools and
longer life expectancy and so on as if that means something, but run a
carrier battle group up and down their coastline a few times and they get
the message.