Posted on 10/16/2018 6:44:47 AM PDT by Trump20162020
As political discord appears to grow every day on Capitol Hill, Republican Senator Ben Sasse told "CBS This Morning" that the country is headed toward a "deeper, darker tribal place." Sasse, author of the new book "Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal" (St. Martin's Press) argues that politics is merely "filling a void" in Americans' lives amid a "hallowing out" of their sense of community.
"I think politics are important but they're not the first thing, they're certainly not the only thing, and I think right now our politics are suffering because people are looking to find grand meaning there because we're not reflecting well on these core underminers of happiness at home," said Sasse.
He added, "We don't listen all that well in Washington. I'm one of eight people out of 100 in the Senate who's never been a politician before, so I'm new to this place, but politicians talk more than we listen. We should listen more than we talk."
Sasse's comments come after a new CBS News Battleground Tracker poll shows that 84 percent of registered voters surveyed say that the overall tone and civility in politics are getting much worse.
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“We should listen more than we talk.”
So he heads out on a listening tour? Nope, a book tour, talking about listening.
The only reasonable response should be, "Who is primarying Ben Sasse in 2020?
Hey Sassehole our side hasn’t changed. The only reason there is political rancor is that the left has lost its f**king minds and have thrown any sense of civility into the garbage. Mr. Sassehole, the only time the left is civil to us is when our side rolls over. That’s not happening anymore! We’re taking the fight to them because it’s the left that is and will continue to take us to a “deeper, darker tribal place” if they have power. The problem with you Sassehole is that you have thrown in with the people who want to destroy this country. Wake up idiot! The Democrats don’t like you or anyone else with an R by their name. POTUS 45 has lifted the blanket and shown the country how corrupt our federal government really is. Too bad you refuse to see that Sassehole!
Well Sasse is a neverTrumper of the Jeff Flake ilk.
So, you can bet that his book will be another blast at Trump.
As well as an announcement that he will be running for President in 2020.
We are right where we have always been... God, country, family... It’s the Democrats who are moving into madness.
Nebraska please recall your village idiot from DC. He has become a national embarrassment with this infantile idiocy and his poltical gutlessness.
WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!
Sen. Sasse, the hate is not due to any “hollowing out” of our communities. It is part of a deliberate strategy, employed by the Democrat Party since the day the ink dried on Saul Alinsky’s manuscript.
“What’s he talking about? Kenya?
We left that place when Obammie left office. All I can see now is a Great America Again.
MAGA”
YESSS! Sasse is a worthless a$$hole in the mold of Jeff Flake! Just where, oh where, do the voters dig up this trash? I am so tired of the “lone wolf” Republicans.
So the mob violence is going to save us from becoming tribal?????
Should we follow the dims? This guy is nuts.
Ben sASSeHAT! Such a disappointment! All the lefty pubbies vying for Phuckin’ Phlake’s worthless position! Or, would it be McNuts’?
What’s he talking about?
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He’s talking about amnesty.
Which tribe? Princess Running Beaver already has the Cherokee riled and on the war path with her ‘cracka’ dna results. Even the friend she had check it for her couldn’t fudge those numbers. And she wants Trump to pony up on the bet? What a fidiot.
““Tribal” is probably a bad term to use right now.”
We can consider “tribal” to mean the opposite of multiculturalism.
As far as tribalism is concerned, I see nothing wrong with a group of people with similar backgrounds wishing to have an environment and government that runs the way they want it to run.
America is my tribe.
The new buzz word: tribalism
They are already there. All that remains is the mopping up. One more Democrat Administration is all it will take for them to complete the job.Whether or not we allow them to complete the job remains yet to be seen. The answer, yea or nay, will manifest itself the day after this November Elections.
Thanks largely to a tone deaf and feckless GOP, Ben.
The Left went ‘tribal’ against whites, particularly white males. Trump saw that and used it to his advantage.
Now things are MUCH WORSE and unless our side goes tribal against the Left, which means voting Republican in huge numbers, we will, literally, be exterminated by the Left. That’s their history, and there’s NO REASON to think they’ll treat us any nicer in this country, not with what they’re already saying and what they’re already doing.
Sasse brings the worst in politicians to the table. A politically correct airhead with no core principles looking for affirmation of his virtue from the media. Can’t stand the guy
He’s working hard to become the most hated Ben in Nebraska since Ben Nelson, who was run out of a pizza joint while daring to show his ugly face following his 0bamaCare vote.
He may as well join the RAT Party.
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