This exact comment is part of the issue, you see? You're saying what Trump said, too, when asked about the divide in the country: "Oh, you know, we are only divided because of THEM". Very ironic.
"The root problem is both sides blaming the other side for extremism" seems to me a problematic argument because it becomes rhetorically unfalsifiable. Any counter-example that's offered can immediately be pounced on as evidence for the argument being made.
"Anyone who offers evidence that disagrees with me is just more proof that I'm right!"
this might show that it's not about us vs them, and instead we should find things we have in common and find compromises and work on political and social problems like adults
okay, where's his proof? I can provide dozens of links, many quoted from his words, about why he messed it up. That's the difference. We can support our arguments, and the few counterarguments have so many holes or outright lies. The 350b number flying around is so easy to disprove with a few minutes of research. The issue is so few spend that time to fact check.
He can't blame egg prices and inflation anymore. He's managed to mess both of those up even more in a month.
Imagine this, if you provide state of the art free education with all the trimmings. Will the voter become more stupid?
Back in the days in NL we had university grads stocking shelves in the supermarket. It was hard to see the point of it.
How useful that was became obvious when it was abolished and political parties pretty much had to explain their program as if the voter was 5 years old. The thing is, hardly anything is that simple. Picture a field with spherical cows all over.
Everything comes with an explanation simplified to the point it becomes a lie.
Every politician needs to carefully keep up with the basket of lies. More and more lies are added on top. One might as well start lying for real and profit from it. If the lion share of voters buys into everything anyway???
