If the government is supose to work together to run the country?

Question

like the teacher said. We all work together. Then why does the Republicans always run down the Democrats and make horrible avatars of them. Is that Uniteing the country?
then they say, horrible remarks about each other. We learned that the Roman Empire died from the inside. Because the people broke off into spliter groups who hated each other.
Just think what the Muslims could accompolish if they didn't fight among themselves? Arent they the majority of people?

Since we all live here as Americans why do they hate each other?
On answers they do, just read the comments and this goes out over the net earth wide. Our sister classroom in S.Africa asked this question to us.
We are asking you people.

I asked a simple question and you can feel the hate. People have become radical over politics. Never have I seen so much hate. Your a bunch of radicals.

Answer 1

Isn't it sad? Everyone claims to want to help the country but what they really mean is help the country by doing it their own way and no one elses. I bet every single person on the planet would be better off if everyone focus on the goals instead of on the means to get there.

Answer 2

How could we work together when our diagnosis is 180 degrees apart?
Assume America is the patient and we have doctors Conservative, Left, and Middle trying to diagnose America's ailment.

Doctor Conservative says there is nothing wrong with America. Go home and take two aspirins!

Doctor Middle suspects that patient America may have cancer, begins treating the symptoms, and orders more tests to be certain.

Doctor Left, having seen America's symptoms in other patients, diagnoses America with cancer and begins an aggressive protocol of chemo and radiation therapy.

The following excerpt from a WSWS article pretty much encapsulates the way the Left sees the current situation:

Bush’s war at home: a creeping coup d’état
By the WSWS Editorial Board
7 November 2001

The Bush administration’s war on democratic rights has exposed the inability of the Democratic Party to offer any serious opposition to the extreme-right forces that dominate the Republican Party. Within hours of the September 11 attacks, the Democrats pledged unconditional support to the Bush White House, declaring that political dissent was no longer permissible. The Democratic leadership not only lined up to give Bush an open-ended mandate to wage war abroad, it insured the passage of his “anti-terror” bill, suppressed any investigation of the unexplained intelligence failure that allowed the September 11 attacks to take place, and sanctioned the trashing of constitutional safeguards in the ongoing police dragnet.

The political collapse of the Democratic Party is the culmination of a protracted process of adaptation to the most right-wing sections of the ruling elite. In their craven response first to the Republican impeachment conspiracy, and then to the theft of the 2000 election, the Democrats already demonstrated their inability and unwillingness to defend democratic rights.

While for the moment, the vast majority of those caught up by the government’s dragnet are immigrants of Middle-Eastern and Central Asian descent, it is only a matter of time before these anti-democratic methods will be used more widely. The wholesale attack on democratic rights can only be halted through the independent organization of the working class, which unites all sections of the working population—immigrant and US-born—in a political struggle against the financial oligarchy and its political representatives.

Answer 3

First, the Roman Empire was a dictatorship in which the opinion of people didn't matter for squat. Rome's republic, on which ours is somewhat modelled, fell apart centuries earlier because the wealthy became more powerful than the many and turned the place into a dictatorship. Your history book stinks, and it's given you the wrong idea about Rome.

Second, while consensus is certainly a worthy goal, and I would concur with you in your sentiment, I would recommend to you the comments in The Federalist Papers in which Madison, the chief architect of our government, states that freedom is to partisan strife what oxygen is to fire; just as we would not deprive the world of oxygen, on which our life depends, because fire can sometimes be harmful, we should be careful not to limit liberty, on which our political life depends, just because the partisan fanatics can sometimes be harmful and vicious. (It might've been Alexander Hamilton who wrote that, now that I think about it; read the Federalist yourself to find out.)

Answer 4

I think we all agree about most things more than we realize. It's sad because major voices solidify their base by destroying to opposing views. (Rush Limbaugh types) They gain a stronger grasp on listners minds by making you think the other side is pure EVIL. It's simply not the case. We all want a clean, peaceful, safe places to live and prosper. We just have different philosophies on how to attain that. it's quite simple really. I wish we could do more listening and idea exchanging without all the trashing.

Answer 5

the problem with our leaders is they are individuals,
and individuals have a hard time agreeing on much of
anything. i have known individuals who, if you told them
the sun would come up in the east tomorrow morning,
would sit up all night looking west for the sunrise. you
only need one of these on a committee to gum up the
whole works.