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In reply to the discussion: You know those Blue Dog democrats everyone hated? [View all]villager
(26,001 posts)Yes, finding consensus and "compromise" between opposing views is what politics used to be about, to some degree, in this country.
Republicans and Democrats used to be able to do it. More or less.
But it's not the progressives you love to blame, who brought us to this present juncture. The loss of "compromise" in this culture comes from Newt Gingrich in the 90's. Hate radio. The erosion of journalism. The unlimited corporate cash thrown into politics (allowed by a Supreme court where Democrats were complicit in approving some of the most odious nominees now on the bench), etc.
The loss of the media as a voice for actual "balance" was due, in part, to Democratic complicity in ceding the press to a strictly commercial -- rather than societal - -enterprise.
Etc.
In other words, the loss of "compromise" is a long-standing plan -- no accident - by the economic royalists running this country.
And earlier Blue Dog compliance with the wishes of those royalists helped bring us to this very moment.