Column: “THE RIGHT SIDE: Politics is making me sick“
“There is an ever-shrinking pool of people with whom one can discuss politics rationally and civilly.”
“I am perhaps most disgusted with my own party as I have watched the GOP fragment themselves into basically a bunch of Lone Rangers and extremist cliques who can’t work with one another, much less work with those in other parties!
“But, somehow, both political parties have forgotten how to be statesmen, how to compromise — not compromise in the sense of betraying one’s core values and principles, but the art of compromise in conducting the people’s business, inching toward one another, especially on fiscal issues, with give and take, each side giving a little, each side getting some of what they want. We have forgotten what olive branches are used for, and both parties have become scorched-earth, warring parties.”
“It is time for a grassroots movement that demands that the first thing that should be halted with any shutdown of the government, now or in the future, should be the salaries and expense accounts of every elected person and their staffers in Washington, D.C.”
WATCHDOG: The thoughts are by conservative columnist Carol Peterson but they could well have been written by the NewsLanc editor.
Petersen hits the nail on the head with “There is an ever-shrinking pool of people with whom one can discuss politics rationally and civilly.” One has to bite one’s tongue while socializing, avoiding political subjects or pussy footing around them.
As for the conduct of the Tea Party branch of the Republican Party, Petersen equally disapproves of their current destructive antics.
Towards the end of the Joe McCarthy era, the public and reasonable members of both parties turned against such mendacious and self-serving elements to preserve the integrity and functionality of the nation. Perhaps history is about to repeat itself… this time for the good.
