There is much to be said about the political divisiveness in Washington D.C.; however, I am sadden to see that the traditional use politics at the appropriate level with the appropriate weaponry to counter opposing opinion has gotten out of hand. Both elected representatives Republicans and Democrats and their constituents are misguided in their attempt to impose their view of the world upon everyone else, that the causalities in the massive verbal violence is the idea of compromise. Unfortunately, the zealous defenders of the Party line on either side are killing America while an apathetic public watches hopelessly, questioning why we've gotten here.
Actually there is a good reason why we all arrived here like this, and it does mainly in the American public's misunderstanding of the American political structure and how to properly address issues in the proper chain of escalation. Many Americans try to keep propelling many issues into the Federal spotlight when clearly it is not ready for such a debate at such a scale.
Not to say that healthcare reform shouldn't be a national issue, it's that people are looking for solutions at all the wrong places. Humanity is benevolently ignorant of several concepts of itself sometimes to think everyone on the same page of certain things that are "right" or "wrong". History has proven over and over that this is simply false and to think otherwise is outright silly. Simple conversation with over a dozen people can easily show you rather quickly that we maybe close on agreeing that things are an issue, but that's where it all ends.
Yes, of course of the bulk of the money and political backbone to enforce law lies in Federal endorsement and enforcement; however, we're a nation that is separate, yet equal. Universal anything is a more of a scientific discovery of arriving to eventual consensus, rather than dragged into a verbal fistfight of your position being morally right and/or theirs being wrong.
I've spoken quite vocally in sometime that the American public under-utilize the powers vested in the individual States to experiment for viable solutions for very polarized issues that clearly cannot be universally accepted by the entire population of the United States. Not to say that this is a perfect system, but one cannot deny that each region has different needs and perspective to their issues.
It would be best that Congress not get dragged into such divisive issues directly, instead by limiting it's exposure in whatever way we can until we can discover that consensus that will drive us together to form a national policy. But that's the problem with AHCA is that we know it's imperfect, yet we continue with it anyway. We're so quick skip the innovative process to discover what works or not, that really, we need to discover it through small groups of people, i.e. The States.
Our political mentality goes against everything we believe in maintaining people's ability to choose and not infringe on others. I know it's a two-way street that issues cannot be outright dismissed like the House Republicans are currently are doing right now, but let's not forget that the AHCA is a flawed system built onto another flawed system, something Democrats would like to forget about.
Elections and majorities do not mandate anything for any agenda regardless of political party or affiliation. If people really want the infighting to stop, they need to start pave the way solve the big issues at the local level first. You're maybe right in your cause; however, imposing big changes when clearly no one is happy about it is quite illogical. You have to take a step back and think to yourself, "Why do I do this when obviously it's not perfect and other solutions do exist? What makes my solution better than others? etc" Small steps lead to big victories. Striving for big victories can be self-inflecting and backfire if you fail to convince a resounding majority.
I would love to see both sides working together to fund various testbed ideas on hot button topics, but alas, all I see is people too focused to impose their ultimate solution to such big problems to the audience of 300+ million people. When you think of every hot button subject facing America, only a few could truly be ready to face the prime time test of national resolution.
Many of the social issues facing America can begun to be solved on lower levels of governance. It made prove a patchwork of ideas and counter-intuitive to what certain people want, but that's the beauty of America, we discover what works for us, instead of formulating something that maybe on the right track.
There is power in the local and state politics, but people are too blind to realize it. American history is filled with the idea of experimenting with discovering law to what best suited the local populace. While it made have sparked a Civil War and other negative events like Jim Crow laws, those were the only notable negative effects to untold positive outcomes. We have in the past, passed gun-control laws in the West through many town to control gun use. States and local laws have in the past paved the way to national inclusion. I have to admit, time is sometimes the only best remedy to soften hard hearts on certain issues and let subtle changes in public opinion slowly slide to the right way.
America is a trial-and-error experiment that finds it's eventual consensus to an eventual solution at the national level at some point. Nowadays, we don't even try to figure out what could work, we just formulate something that might work right at the national level when various experiments, if allowed to have formed at the local/state level, could pave the way to a national level law.
But until people realize that bringing all sorts of issues to Congress is actually counter-productive to the day-to-day business of Congress, we'll continue on this polarized road that leads to nothing good in the end. It leads to moments like these where each side will be tempted greatly to cripple one another agendas by crippling the very structure we've hopelessly placed the majority of our avenues to solve issues. But this should not, nor never be the case. We have the structure in place to escape a paralyzed federal government from time-to-time, we just have to utilize it, and utilize it correctly.
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