Is red and blue debate healthy or a divide and conquer tactic?

Answer 1

It won't matter to the American working class who wins in 2008 as the Dems and Reps are not only the same coin but also the same side. Big business (free trade) wins, you loose.

Answer 2

It is a divide and conquer tactic. Basically none of the candidates that are currently in the race for President have the possibility of being a bi-partisan leader. Clinton and Guliani are far too polarizing, Obama too liberal, McCain too old, and Edwards too stupid. Since they can't be bi-partisan leaders, they have to divide the population and take the half they can guarentee, example Clinton will divide the nation and pander to liberals because they will support her.

Answer 3

It's a pretty good barometer of our society. Please read the following...
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About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy; (We are here!)
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million;
Bush: 143 million;
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush:
2,427,000
States won by: Gore: 19 Bush: 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore: 13.2 Bush: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some 40 percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger.

Answer 4

Partisan politics is fundamentally evil and polarizing. It causes people to adopt views just because their party told them to instead of thinking about the issues to come up with the best solution.