Sadly, it seems politicians have adopted a strategy of divide and conquer the electorate. They use fear, class-envy, and demagoguery to divide Americans. Instead of proposing solutions to the serious problems we face, they attempt to muster more votes at the expense of the nation. This phenomenon has polarized Americans such that it is rare we make headway toward reasonable solutions to our national problems. For example, our energy policy has suffered from this abuse. We are approaching an energy crisis in America, but emotions on this issue are so visceral and heated that we can't have a rational national dialogue. America's opposing ideas about issues need not be a weakness. Instead they should lead us to better solutions than either side would achieve unchecked. We must come together to find a reasonable balance to our energy needs and our enviornment. But before we can do this we have to reasonably answer some questions: what amount of energy can the enviornment support, what amount of energy do we need, what policies are we going to impliment to meet our energy and enviornmental needs into the future, and etc. But how can we hope to get to this stage when our leaders are dividing us instead of leading us?
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Sadly, it seems politicians have adopted a strategy of divide and conquer the electorate. They use fear, class-envy, and demagoguery to divide Americans. Instead of proposing solutions to the serious problems we face, they attempt to muster more votes at the expense of the nation. This phenomenon has polarized Americans such that it is rare we make headway toward reasonable solutions to our national problems. For example, our energy policy has suffered from this abuse. We are approaching an energy crisis in America, but emotions on this issue are so visceral and heated that we can't have a rational national dialogue. America's opposing ideas about issues need not be a weakness. Instead they should lead us to better solutions than either side would achieve unchecked. We must come together to find a reasonable balance to our energy needs and our enviornment. But before we can do this we have to reasonably answer some questions: what amount of energy can the enviornment support, what amount of energy do we need, what policies are we going to impliment to meet our energy and enviornmental needs into the future, and etc. But how can we hope to get to this stage when our leaders are dividing us instead of leading us?
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