Malcom X
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- Apr 6, 2011
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We have become so polarized that every issue has a right and left side. I can remember when we had conservative democrats and liberal republicans. I suppose they exist today, but their voices seem to be drowned out the ideologues. Coalitions of Democrats and Republicans in Congress were common. Today it's a rarity.
Most of the regulations and programs, but not all are worth their cost. What is needed in government are pragmatists that can put aside ideology and weight government functions comparing their cost against their accomplishments.
I hear this argument a lot. Yet I've never seen a single example, in any Democracy (past or present), of this type of ultra-moderation in governance. Polarization is the natural tendency of all STATES.