What's Keeping All of us DIVIDED?

Question

I just read an interesting response to a question that made me think. The response went something like... Okay, keep this nation divided by making excuses for Bush.

I'm a conservative who is not a big supporter of Bush, because, he's NOT a conservative and yes, he's made many mistakes. I do have many friends who are supporters of our President and that certainly doesn't keep us divided. I respect their opinions.

It seems to me that ideology is keeping us divided more than anything. Am I wrong?

Speaking for myself.. I'm for smaller government, less government control, and more responsibility taken from the feds and turned over to states and municipalities, therefore, giving us, the citizens more control. I'm against corporate monopolies and allowing big business to call the shots. I am for private enterprise.

So what in your opinion is keeping us so divided. Now's your chance to let it all hang out!

Answer 1

Everything you stated about wanting smaller government, less government control, and more responsibility given to states and municipalities - Is the dividing line.

I've sat back for years watching people sit and ponder about how our government needs to be better by all too often playing arm-chair quarterback on how things need to be. There's a disconnect.

Yes, they want to be heard - but they aren't. Why? Because they're speaking to a government so far detached from what they need nothing happens.

Those that want our government to work best for us are creating difficulties for themselves by being the actual disconnect between local and federal government.

Anytime anything happens they generalize and feel it's a national/federal situation that needs to be addressed and in reality they're distancing themselves from immediate responses by those closest to them in their local government.

When that occurs what's created is more of a socialized environment brought down by the feds while making the local governments more or less completely ineffective.

That ineffectiveness is the fault of citizens not knowing how to make government (in general) work best for them.

Answer 2

I would maintain everyone is an extremist!!
That's a radical thought but really think about it.
I know people well many people on this section. Intelligent well meaning people and all of them agree that special interest has subverted democracy. How significant is voting etc. if we simply vote for people that will do as these groups tell them? If this is a priority for everyone it would seem reasonable to apply for President they should all have this issue addressed in the same way. Regardless of party affiliation.

What actually happens is this:
People vote based either on a group of issues they identify with or a single issue. I think they are pretty extreme on this notion. Rather than balanced thinking whats best in an overall sense we get I want a president who is progay or antiabortion. Instead of what kind of planet are we going to give to our children we talk about global warming is or isnt manmade. Who cares really have you driven into Los Angeles or Denver the perpetual brown clouds that cover these cities should be the issue. Hell I grief all night about this stuff.

Answer 3

Have narrow interest groups on both sides in Washingtion thinking the goverment is the favor factory, and the taxp payer get stuck with the tab paying those free handouts to companes, wealthy indiviauls, non-profits, labor unions. Smaller federal goverment is needed here because accountibility is better to attain at the local for all services than at the Federal Level. Still, I dont look at democrat and republican party as one having the better than the other it takes people on both sides of the poltical isle to get things done that is how a republic is supposed to funcition. I think taxation is way out of hand, and the incentive towards inefficent subidies hurts the purchasing power at the expense of a small lobby group that uses the hand of the goverment to protect 20 jobs at the expense of taxpayer.

Smaller goverment wont be achieved by demcorats that want to expand the nannie state, and republicans that want to waste time saving Terry Shirvo.

Answer 4

Ok Close the Border HOW? With a fence? What kind of fence? A Big one thats gonna Cost Millions that we dont have? Or one that doesn't do the job? The Border aint easy to put a fence on either. Its a very Mountian terrian. And a lot or Troops at the border will not go well with mexico. and if you dont care about pissing off a country that shares our border then you dont know how important mexico is to many things we do. But hey who cares about Mexico. Most Ppl who r complaining about immigration just dont like mexicans. And What about our broder to the North? Why Not Build a Fence there? Y not put Troops there? I mean that where the 911 attackers came from!!! WHY ONLY WITH MEXICO?

Answer 5

Ideology does naturally divide us, and since there will never come a time when we are all of one mind, we will never be completely "united". What is harming us most of all right now though, is the fact that the two major parties believe they have a right to force their agendas on all of us, and at our own expense.

The best way to unite us is to facilitate our differences by allowing states to do their own thing on all issues except for those that concern truly interstate affairs, and international matters. That was the plan our country's founders intended for us to follow; even back in their time, they realized that the United States of America were too diverse to be heavily controlled by a central authority.

The answer is unity in diversity.

Answer 6

I personally think a divided nation is a strong nation. For instance, let me use this analogy. Stagnate water only harbors bacteria and parasites. Compare that stagnate water to a country where everyone felt the same about issues. Without turbulance, disturbance and wave makers nothing changes and the water is placid. Water that constantly moves does have "bacteria" and "parasites" but it's far less than the stagnate water. Does that make sense?

So as for a nation really being divided, I think the one's who really believe that aren't simply looking at the bigger picture. I think they base it on one or collectively a few issues, when in reality, there are many issues that affect each one of us different, and certainly in many different ways.

Great question.

Answer 7

I think both parties are guilty of courting what is reffered to as the idjit vote, why they don't call them outright idiots is beyond me. By the nature of wht it is, fully half of the populations IQ is under 100. Some of them, a sizable enough to be demographically significant, vote on issues that are not significant, like the color of their eyes, or on feelings or perceptions they get from others such as the mass media. Both sides court these people, the right catering to religious convictions and the left painting Republicans as mean spirited, hateful warmogerers. This is not to say that people who are religious and vote conservative are idjits, just that some of them are. The same is true of Democrats, not all of them buy that they are the "good" party, but their "idjits" do

Answer 8

The people are not once like they were during the time of our Founders, they have rejected the Almighty to satisfy their wordly lusts, and they do not uderstand this, simply for the fact they are living in darkness and are afraid to come to the light for fear that their evil deeds may be exposed. Any time a Nation rejects God there will always be chaos in the land, and it will only continue to get worse the further the people stray from God's Precious and Holy Word (The Truth). Make no bones about it, America is headed in the same direction that Sodom and Gomorrah and so many other Nations have taken -- To satisfy that which is unseemly and unnatural, they don't want to be limited to their sinful desires; they want more and more and more and more, and when this happens they sink further and further to their demise, and many, Sadly, are turned over to the reprobate mind, and then people wonder why the Nation is in the shape that it is in.

All the product of Modern Liberalism; we can insulate ourselves from its degeneration of Tradition and culture, or, we can choose to oppose it, and halt the beast that Liberalism is in EVERY arena.

The Will to resist remains our only hope. People must turn back to the God of Creation before it's too late.

God bless!!

Answer 9

If America makes a mistake are you anti- American for dicussing it, and wanting to fix it? Or is better to never question policy no matter how strange or stupid it seems. If history shows that the failure rate for a certain activity is very high should we do it until it works, no matter how many lives are affected badly? What keeps us devided is power, those that have it want to make sure they keep it, and division it the way. control the dialog, denounce oppostion.
The arts of power and it's minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks it's victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal it's own abuses and encroachments. ( Henry Clay, March 14, 1834 )

Answer 10

Rabid rhetoric is the culprit. When you demonize the guys on the other side of the field you engender their anger unless they are able to turn the other cheek, which is awfully hard to do. So they demonize you right back.

Folks are all black flagging it these days and casting absurd aspersions on their neighbors. It's unseemly, un-American and really not in keeping with the Christian traditions that so many of us claim to honor.

It's really pretty silly to keep throwing rocks at each other, when we all play for Team America.