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Originally Posted by Miller101
But, you have to understand that all I've seen that guy do is screw up.
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This is what is wrong with our political system today.
Not picking on Miller in particular here at all just using his words to show what is a common theme in US politics from every side. Absolute statements in general are usually wrong. Absolute statements in politics are ALWAYS wrong. Look, Bush sucked. A lot. But not every single thing he has done has been a screw up. Our current political system allows for only black and white. An "either you're with me or against me" type of thinking where the "opposition" can never do right and has never done right and where my "allies" are always wrong and couldn't ever be wrong. What ever happened to us using some thought to establish nuanced opinions free of absolutism and demagoguery? Are we all to stupid and lazy to think anymore?
I feel like most people's political opinions are as well though out as the opinions of a 14 year old not yet capable of putting any actual time, effort or brain power into actually KNOWING what they are talking about and using that information to form an opinion within the context of their own personal beliefs. They're 50% talking points and 50% emotion.
Again this is not about Miller at all but there are a lot of opinions on this site that come off this way from both sides of the aisle. Not just this site but society in general I guess.