The idea of a two party system is by definition polarizing. It is a form of legalized segregation if you think about it.
I have no idea what you mean should people in red states be getting taxed right now.
I think Barack thinks very differently than most people. If you allow me a cliche, very "right-brained". His real talent lies imo not in conflict logic, but in reconciliation. In fact, I think he is trying so hard right now to listen to the advice from people that live in the old system, to "old logic", the very same system he knows doesn't work. I am afraid that the genius of Barack, a talent these people could never fathom, will be extinguished, or equally bad, made insecure in Obama. He will regret not taking his own path. It doesn't mean closing himself to others. So hard to explain...My hope is that when Barack is no longer president, that the legacy he leaves behind isn't just something that made the country better for x years while he was president, but that it is a revolution in the way government sees itself, and what we tolerate from politicians. A new level of cooperation, a new standard, a new Political Philosophy, is the best short description.
Any advancement of monumental proportion is nearly always made by people that don't know any better. That is why major advances are almost always made on the back of young people - they don't know it is impossible. Everyone advising Barrack believes what he said in his campaign was just to get elected. I think they are gravely mistaken. Obama meant every word of what he says. His advisers assume it can't be true, because in their mind it is naive, or worse, in their mind, Utopian. Obama is too naive - he doesn't know it is impossible, and THAT is why it might work.
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