Our politics are fickle (again) – our obvious political divide continues to cripple our ability to think clearly about issues – but no way will we admit it – we just continue to inexplicitly jump on the many passing bandwagons, as we’re directed to by the talking heads without ever considering disconnects between our outrage and our own patterns of political behavior – for example:
Evidently the sky is falling because of the college loan bailouts.
On the Left, I really do believe Biden’s college loan relief effort was strategically focused on midterm elections – the relief is way-way too broad and far reaching – this could have easily been narrowed down to cases of genuine financial hardship and it really should target the hellish predatory college loans.
On the Right, I like the points about accountability and “responsibility” (at one time this was a GOP standard) – but (oddly) not a word about the “responsibility” for tens of thousands of Govt backed predatory college loans tangled up in this – also, not a word about the mega-billions of dollars in our nation’s history of bailouts of (not 100%, but largely) GOP favored entities.
For example – major bailouts over the past 4 decades: Big Businesses, Rail Industry (X2), Lockheed, NYC, Busted Govt Programs (countless), Banks (so many), Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac (X2), AIG, PPP Loans (1000’s), Auto Industry (X2), Housing Industry, Airline Industry (X2), Bear Stearns, TARP (oh so many), etc., etc…
Our (Left and Right) responses want the “divide” to have more weight than the issue to be addressed – fickle for sure.
POINT: There is a “clear and present disconnect” in our political outrage verses our political patterns – this is the core of the “clear and present danger” of holding fast to our political divide more than working the issue at hand – we’ve become so driven by talking heads shouting and snapping their fingers to draw attention away from real issues, and focusing us on their urgency for greater political divide – the hype for the divide, instead of the issues is perilously explosive – this is so dangerous for the nation.
We can work issues – we can find common ground – we can insist on more from our elected officials – we can turn down the volume down on talking heads (who are getting rich from this) – at this point, both major parties are sheep – we can do better,
We used to do better.
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