Broken American Politics

The debate which resulted in the passage of Health Care Reform and the continuing battle and the passions it has stirred up reveals that the American Political system is itself sick. It is not just the rhetoric and anger, but the polerization and lack of compromise which worries me.

I really blame the GOP and Right Wingers for this, although the situation was helped by strategic decisions by the Democrats. The Republicans and others on the Right suffer from such extremism that they can't even see that the abuses they supported by George W. Bush had almost destroyed them, now they are back as if they had no part in the scandal and corruption they were party to.

For her part Nancy Pilosi should hever have agreed to ananesty for Bush and Chany for war crimes and Obama should have reversed TARP and the Bank Bailout. They get the GOP and right wingers off easy and they came roaring back and its not over, because the Right could still undo this law and more.
If I were in her district, I wouldn't vote for her, even though she has been touted today as the most power speaker of the house.

I wonder if the state of American Politics really represents that a class war is going on, and has been going on for some time. There are many factons on the Right that pride themselves in no compromise, whether it is Right to Life, Fundementalist Christians, or Market Fundementalists such as Libertarians.
What the Health Care debate reverals is that the Party of No finds support from people who believe "I've got mine, screw you." a siege mentality. What this country needs is a retreat from that mentality and replacing it with one in which we share a common stake in the future.

Another indicator of this is how fiscal conservatives are allowing the states to falter vua under taxation and that the nation's public schools are being allowed to be destroyed. Rather than having the businesses who benefit from a well-educated domestic workforce pay their fair share in taxes, the No Tax Increase Republicans are standing pat on the insistance that states be allowed to fail because their revenues and investments have failed linked to the business cycle promoted by the GOP and free market advocates. One must question the partitism of the Right and in addition wheather any of these people believe that America has a future.