Adinnieken said:
You say that as if it's a bad thing. The United States has been at its greatest when we share values and beliefs. We are at our worst when we don't. More importantly, shared values and beliefs have kept the US far more stable than other countries. Where as countries like the UK go through political extremes due to their all or nothing parlimentary governments, our system of checks and balances forces all three branches of the government to work together to do what is in the best interest of the country. |
It is a bad thing when so much rancor is whipped up about vanishingly small differences, mostly cosmetic ones, and there is no serious attempt to come to grips with an unsustainable fiscal situation, and a decade of imperial presidencies have made the executive branch grossly more powerful than the other two.
