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Re: Romney's tax rate is only half as high as the middle class pays
from j-mac
The loss of a middle adds to the problem. But to give you a really honest and frank answer that you are not going to like - yes indeedy - I think the lions share of the problem is because the right wing has embraced various beliefs in the way a zealot embraces religion. The right believes what it wants to believe because it is convenient for them to believe it. An example is the truisms they constantly float that small government is good and lower taxes are good and local government is better than national government. There are a bunch of axioms like that that have adopted on a level like religious tenets and they permeate the discussion and poison it.
Progressives like myself do not believe in big government. We simply want government that works.
Progressives like myself do not believe that lower taxes are good are higher taxes are good. We simply want a tax system that works for a sustainable society.
Progressives like myself do not rank any hierarchy of local, state or national government as which is the best and most desirable. We simply want government to work.
So yes - I do think the lions share of the problem is the increasing radicalization of the conservative wing of this nation. I see no corresponding radicalization of the left wing - in fact - most of us on the left complain about the toothless lion of democratic politics.
from j-mac
Yes, it is true that the ideological sides of any particular argument have widened, and entrenched deeper into their own views without any real willingness to accept the others points of view as being even remotely valid. Do you think that is a problem that is only suffered by your opponents? Or can you step back and possibly look and see that this was possibly intentionally stoked for political purposes on both sides at different times?
The loss of a middle adds to the problem. But to give you a really honest and frank answer that you are not going to like - yes indeedy - I think the lions share of the problem is because the right wing has embraced various beliefs in the way a zealot embraces religion. The right believes what it wants to believe because it is convenient for them to believe it. An example is the truisms they constantly float that small government is good and lower taxes are good and local government is better than national government. There are a bunch of axioms like that that have adopted on a level like religious tenets and they permeate the discussion and poison it.
Progressives like myself do not believe in big government. We simply want government that works.
Progressives like myself do not believe that lower taxes are good are higher taxes are good. We simply want a tax system that works for a sustainable society.
Progressives like myself do not rank any hierarchy of local, state or national government as which is the best and most desirable. We simply want government to work.
So yes - I do think the lions share of the problem is the increasing radicalization of the conservative wing of this nation. I see no corresponding radicalization of the left wing - in fact - most of us on the left complain about the toothless lion of democratic politics.