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Democracy’s dilemma: Why aren’t we solving our biggest problems?
The Hill ^ | 01/08/2024 | HARLAN ULLMAN

Posted on 01/08/2024 11:54:57 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Here is a question to be posed to the candidates seeking the presidency, in particular, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Why does it seem impossible to resolve the most important challenges facing the nation?

Throughout American history and especially in times of crisis, the nation has been able to come together. Today, that is unlikely. Sixty-plus years ago in the Senate, when Sens. Lyndon Johnson (D-Texas), Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) and Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) served, and 40 years ago when Rep. Tip O’Neill was Speaker of the House, despite huge policy differences, partisanship could be defeated.

LBJ contributed to Dirksen’s reelection campaign. O’Neill and President Ronald Reagan could have drinks in the White House.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: biggest; democracy; dilemma; problems
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Shove your democracy and partisanship where the sun does not shine Harlan. This Reagan and Tip being friends is a bunch of BS. How about getting government out of the way Harlan? Every think of that?
1 posted on 01/08/2024 11:54:57 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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Because if we solved the ‘problems’ we would not need politicians to ‘solve’ them for us.................


2 posted on 01/08/2024 11:57:05 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Right now the biggest problem facing the nation is out of control government.

Kinda doubt the crooks in DC have any interest in addressing that.


3 posted on 01/08/2024 11:57:11 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

After reading J Evetts Haley’s book on LBJ, I don’t think Johnson is a very good example either to say the least.


4 posted on 01/08/2024 11:58:50 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

According to RAT “democrazy”, the right to kill babies is this country’s biggest problem. Liberal females live for that right like I fight for the right to own an AR-15.


5 posted on 01/08/2024 12:00:03 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what happened last time we brought in forced labor. Support Abbott's Underground RR.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Article:

“the nation has been able to come together.”

The leftist goal is for us to sit down, shut up and obey.

That is what they mean by “come together”.


6 posted on 01/08/2024 12:01:19 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: OttawaFreeper

The Hill article lists “problems” which are an an unequivocally far-left wish-list.

The BS is that what that clown thinks are “problems”


7 posted on 01/08/2024 12:01:50 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Bi-partisanship is mythology. The definition of bi-partisanship is conservative capitulation.


8 posted on 01/08/2024 12:03:27 PM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sorry, who’s pushing all the identity politics/division again?


9 posted on 01/08/2024 12:04:31 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How I hate The Hill. They’re liars and pretend we are a democracy which is tyranny, instead of what we really are, a Free Constitutional Republic.

Please stop posting from the Hill. They are unreliable and spread lies.


10 posted on 01/08/2024 12:06:20 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Why does it seem impossible to resolve the most important challenges facing the nation?

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Because the cultural common-ground is largely non-existent at this point. Sorry, but that’s the truth.


11 posted on 01/08/2024 12:12:18 PM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

According to RAT “democrazy”, the right to kill babies is this country’s biggest problem.


According to Biden, today, white supremacy is the existential threat our country faces. But of course this was to a black audience. Had he been speaking to a women’s group, abortion restrictions might be the biggest problem.


12 posted on 01/08/2024 12:21:12 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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Yup. That’s Joe Pedo’s biggest problem. He don’t speak to their brains. He mumbles to their skin.


13 posted on 01/08/2024 12:29:56 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what happened last time we brought in forced labor. Support Abbott's Underground RR.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The “problems” are a feature, not a bug. The Democratic Party is a criminal organization with an army the Nazis only dreamed of having...


14 posted on 01/08/2024 12:30:55 PM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why did they create the problems to begin with?


15 posted on 01/08/2024 12:32:22 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna! 1 gone, 1 almost dead. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The DungHill is trying to play middle ground just in case DiaperBoy looses.
Lets hope Trump realizes its just a head fake.


16 posted on 01/08/2024 12:40:24 PM PST by Zathras
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To: cgbg

We have nothing in common with”progressives”. No shared values. No common goals. They continue to expand government which means our freedom contracts. Their voters demand largess from the Treasury. We want to be left alone (with reasonable and equal application of only a few necessary rules/laws).
The Left promises to provide their voters with necessities for obedience, like the CCP.


17 posted on 01/08/2024 1:03:48 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“This Reagan and Tip being friends is a bunch of BS.”

You got that right. I remember “amiable dunce” and “Bonzo” and the other smears from the Dems.


18 posted on 01/08/2024 1:06:32 PM PST by rxh4n1
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That’s the second biggest problem, IMO. The biggest is getting the commies out of the institutions and political process and media and academia and the nation. They are the clear and present danger. They are the cancer. And you don’t use an analgesic on it, you destroy it or it just keeps coming back.


19 posted on 01/08/2024 1:07:22 PM PST by curious7
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That is what they mean by “come together”.

EVERY political compromise has been away from the conservative position and towards the liberal/leftist position. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

They WANT us to "sit down and come together" because that means further progress towards their goals.

20 posted on 01/08/2024 1:11:51 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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