Balance

Social media is perfect for politics. It's just that very few people are actually social about it. Even by saying something like that, I tempt people to jump in and say "Yeah, the Dumbocrats/Rethuglicans (pick one) sure are ugly about it." That's how bad it is. People actually believe, deep down, in their core that it's the other side that's mean, misinformed, and irrational. Never their own. People ENJOY bickering from two diametrically opposite wings and entrench ever deeper in their positions. No one wants to engage in real discussion, explore the complexity and unintended consequences of implementing their proposals, and try to find an even better, third alternative. They just want to lob insults and prepackaged arguments at each other like they are in the comments section of an Alabama or Auburn football article.

We need both sides to survive! Each acts as a balance against the other. Either side, left unchecked, would serve only a fraction of the people at any given time. That's why we have a two-party system. Our aim cannot be to drive the other party into the sea, vanquishing them forever, never to hear their stupidity ever again. They are right about just as many things as you are. Get that through your heads, Americans. I don't want to live under unregulated jungle law capitalism any more than I want to live under a cradle-to-grave bureaucracy. A mixed economy, diligently and responsibly utilized, is the best solution. We became the world's most advanced economic, technological, and martial superpower using such a system. We must preserve it.