Governments tend to work better when politicians aren't willing to fuck over millions of federal employees, park workers, and soldiers over an issue that has fuck all to do with the budget, or even Americans at all.
And of course, all given examples are very negligible proportions of the generations in question.
True, but it’s not solely their fault. They tend to grandstand on issues they know will appeal and energize the people who got / will get them elected.
As the population if we took the accountability to demand budget reform and based our votes on that and not about the “red vs blue” issues then the politicians would have to concentrate on it.
As long as we vote with the same part of our brain that watches football they will continue to act like they do.
Grandstanding is a part of politics, it is essential to pushing issues and carving out a political record, and as polarization continues to widen, red and blue are the only things people can reasonably be expected to see. Nothing would be achieved without unified fronts, I'm just thankful that the divide is ideological instead of something even more arbitrary.
But politicians will be held accountable by their constituents regardless, so I'm fairly certain that come election season people will remember who tried to pass a budget, and who froze the government and fucked the troops to try and benefit people who aren't even American.
I doubt anyone will remember this by March. There is no recent history of politicians being held accountable come election time because they understand the key is the polarization you mentioned. As long as they are against what you are against (I don’t even think “for what you are for” even matters anymore) you will be able to overlook any actual past behavior.
Whenever this stuff happens each side blames the other with no consistency to the last time. Republicans will say that shutdowns are the fault of congress even though 5 years ago they said shutdowns are the President’s fault. Democrats act the same way.
We as voters have to be accountable for how that affects us. People can only manipulate you as far as you let them and as a population we have been letting them do it more and more by polarizing us against each other when we are all Americans and should work together on the issues that are the biggest. Immigration is tiny financially compared to Medicare as an example.
And of course, all given examples are very negligible proportions of the generations in question.
As the population if we took the accountability to demand budget reform and based our votes on that and not about the “red vs blue” issues then the politicians would have to concentrate on it.
As long as we vote with the same part of our brain that watches football they will continue to act like they do.
But politicians will be held accountable by their constituents regardless, so I'm fairly certain that come election season people will remember who tried to pass a budget, and who froze the government and fucked the troops to try and benefit people who aren't even American.
Whenever this stuff happens each side blames the other with no consistency to the last time. Republicans will say that shutdowns are the fault of congress even though 5 years ago they said shutdowns are the President’s fault. Democrats act the same way.
We as voters have to be accountable for how that affects us. People can only manipulate you as far as you let them and as a population we have been letting them do it more and more by polarizing us against each other when we are all Americans and should work together on the issues that are the biggest. Immigration is tiny financially compared to Medicare as an example.