Re: I'll be totally honest, which may get me some flack.
Burr Send a noteboard - 04/09/2012 03:58:36 PM
Haven't done comparative studies. I think you'll probably have to ask me again in a few years. Right now though, I'll say that I think the competency/intelligence/etc of one person only has so much to do with the problem. I can't tell if it's just that I am paying attention, but I definitely feel the polarity of the parties so much more strongly now. I keep wondering if we've gone too far.
I've got to agree with this. As much as I fear the regression of my own interests that might come about in a Romney administration, overall I think the way things go does have more to do with the personality of our society than that of the individual politicians. At this point, neither Romney nor Obama (nor anyone else) could get themselves elected without pandering to either the Republican base or the Democratic base (not to mention castigating the other side as devils, not that that's anything new). What's funny is, I imagine R & O making a great ticket together if we were in some utopia without a party system. But our polarization is self-reinforcing in that it creates a grand litmus test.
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Only so evil.
Only so evil.
This message last edited by Burr on 04/09/2012 at 04:02:22 PM
Americans... help me understand your voting minds
- 04/09/2012 07:19:54 AM
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Re: Americans... help me understand your voting minds
- 04/09/2012 02:59:24 PM
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OMG, that is both insightful and infuriating. I am, by turns, perplexed, angry and sexually aroused.
- 04/09/2012 11:37:45 PM
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I'll be totally honest, which may get me some flack.
- 04/09/2012 03:03:52 PM
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Re: I'll be totally honest, which may get me some flack.
- 04/09/2012 03:58:36 PM
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But could you imagine either one taking the second slot on that ticket? *NM*
- 04/09/2012 04:11:58 PM
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The meanness and partisanship has always been there, especially in DC, however.....
- 04/09/2012 04:18:29 PM
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I think it's funny your reply has more than twice as many views as mine. 
- 04/09/2012 04:08:49 PM
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- 04/09/2012 04:08:49 PM
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I guess a lot of people have you on ignore! 
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- 04/09/2012 04:26:56 PM
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- 04/09/2012 04:26:56 PM
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Or I'm boring? 
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- 04/09/2012 05:49:14 PM
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- 04/09/2012 05:49:14 PM
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I know the feeling.
- 04/09/2012 07:42:35 PM
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that is because she logged out and hit refresh over and over to make you look bad
- 05/09/2012 02:58:28 AM
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Re: Americans... help me understand your voting minds
- 04/09/2012 09:30:35 PM
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Sorry, but I only gloss over most of what you say.
- 05/09/2012 03:39:28 PM
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the belief that the GOP is out to get him in a central pillar to the Joel universe *NM*
- 05/09/2012 03:57:49 PM
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Stephen is basically right on the first point.
- 05/09/2012 08:39:22 PM
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Thanks for clarifying, Joel. *NM*
- 06/09/2012 01:31:31 PM
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NP, thanks for asking and listening.
- 06/09/2012 02:39:54 PM
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On that note (liberals hating America).
- 07/09/2012 05:35:40 PM
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I (usually) do not think it intentional; unfortunately, that rarely mitigates the harm.
- 07/09/2012 06:12:56 PM
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