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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Your former manager may indeed be a suckass, but I hate how toxic politics is becoming in this country where people are drawing lines in the sand on friendships & relationships based on Liberal vs Conservative.
I've always hated how Americans are divided into 2 teams and often can't even get along with someone from the other team. It's a stupid way to behave as a populous.
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It also ensures that in the long run, the right wins. The things moderates and the left want out of government - for public programs to be supported and effective longterm - require two things: consensus and continuity. Public programs need broad support, and the state needs to maintain them as control of government changes hands.
If society and politics become a zero-sum game of two intolerant factions throwing haymakers at one another, you can’t sustain these policies. Effective government needs a base level of social trust and cohesion to work. Of course this is hard to do when the platforms we use to communicate are designed from the bottom-up to foster animus and division.