What, politicians who don’t argue?
March 2nd, 2008 at 09:31pm Chuck Sweeny
Last week we had the first meeting of the Register Star’s 2008 Voter Panel. I’ve done these many times before, and once again I’ve heard people who say they want real change. They may not know exactly what that should be, but they don’t think anything’s getting done in Washington. They want consensus among our leaders.
Problem with that is, we have an adversarial system designed to slow down the political process, to avoid the mistakes of rushing into policies and practices that seem good on the surface, but which can be disastrous down the road.
So, the “Rodney King” approach, (can’t we all just get along?) probably isn’t the best one for a country as big and diverse as the U.S.A.
Our argumentative system developed a country that hasn’t done badly over the years.
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